The Wolf in Winter

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Review #1

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This is the twelfth in the Charlie Parker series. It’s part mystery, part thriller, and part fantasy, and all the parts work together beautifully. Unlike most series featuring a single hero (or anti-hero), one never knows if Parker will survive any story. He is very close to Something Beyond, and this has been developed since the first novel. I think this is the best book so far, for the chilling story and the underlying premise. I read them out of order and would like to point out that some of the characters are not clearly defined for someone who hasn’t encountered them before, like Believers and Principal Backers. One might liken Parker to the wolf of the title, but the wolf can’t escape his fate, while Parker has the ability to choose within limited parameters. The plot starts out simply enough, with a homeless man seeking his homeless daughter, who has vanished after telling someone that she was offered a job. He winds up hanged in a deserted building and the police are willing to consider it suicide – until a friend of the deceased contacts Parker. The detective, who is motivated less by money and more by a burning need to see justice done, makes some inquiries and is led to Prosperous, an insulated community whose fortunes have somehow escaped the current economy. Their young men don’t die while serving in the armed forces, there are no homeless in the streets, and there are no outsiders dwelling among the descendants of old English settlers. Those settlers brought over their little church, stone by stone, and though they all worship with more conventional Protestant denominations, everyone seems strangely devoted to the Chapel of Adam Before Eve and Eve Before Adam. So devoted, in fact, that no one who leaves the town ever discusses it. Read it for the chilling reason, and see what Parker decides.

Review #2

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Anytime you read a series, there’s always a worry in your mind about how long the author can sustain everything without a) getting repetitive, b) wearing out his/her welcome, or c) getting bored with their own creation. And when there’s a degree of serialization to the series, no matter how small, you’re also acutely aware of the balance between self-contained works and the overarching story, and that the author can’t stall that out forever without ultimately frustrating the reader or making the series feel like it’s spinning its wheels. All of which brings me to The Wolf in Winter, the latest entry in John Connolly’s masterful Charlie Parker series. In its early going, The Wolf in Winter feels like typical Parker – not that that’s a bad thing, mind you; between Connolly’s beautiful, often poetic prose; his masterful characters that defy easy categorization and truly come to life; his uncanny ability to blend crime with horror and create something wholly new; his knack for bringing to life truly unsettling versions of evil; and his fantastic plotting, even the weakest Parker book is a great read, and this one is far from weak. But as we learn about the small, secluded Maine town of Prosperous, where a young woman disappears not long before her searching father turns up dead, there’s a sense that we’re in pure Parker territory, where the ordinary world slowly peels back to reveal a twisted, dark core. And then, halfway through The Wolf in Winter, Connolly does something wholly new for the series, pushing Parker essentially offstage and throwing all of our expectations into disarray. And what follows from there is exhilarating, as secondary characters come to the foreground, old plot threads are pulled together in surprising ways, and the mythology of the series seems to evolve to be something entirely different than we might have originally expected. What does that mean for fans of the series? It means that not only are you getting a phenomenal, disturbing, thrilling, exceptional new entry in a great series, but you’re also getting something wholly unexpected that leaves us uncertain as to what comes next. I don’t know if Connolly is drawing the series to a close, or if he’s shaking things up in order to push us into something new, or if the next book will be a return to the status quo – and honestly, I don’t care, because when the books are this good, this riveting, this exciting, this unsettling, and this phenomenal, I’ll read every one of them until the end and just be glad I got the ones I got. In other words, it’s just another masterful thriller from one of the best and most underrated thriller writers working today. Did you really expect much less?

Review #3

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I’m a serious John Connolly fan — I’ll buy his books before publication and circle the release date on my calendar (in RED!) to make sure I don’t forget. During my first reading of Wolf I was less involved with the story line than in his previous novels, but it was good enough for a second visit and that’s when the book hit its stride. The main character in most of Connolly’s books, Charlie Parker, is a private detective in Maine who has walked through the fires of hell fighting the evil that men — and sometimes things that are not truly men — do in pursuit of their own secret goals. Ancient legends about the endless battle between good and evil, between men and fallen angels, between light and darkness, is played out on Earth down through the centuries, with the same twisted souls inhabiting different bodies in their search to be reunited with… an intelligence. Connolly’s genius is that he never clearly explains these “fallen angels”, letting the reader’s imagination create the horrors ordinary humans seem more than happy to sell their souls to for short-term gain.
The author is consistent in his supporting cast: Angel and Louis, deadly hit men for hire with an undying affection for Parker, deep love for each other and a strong moral code; Tony and Paulie, behemoths of unstable temperment who have Parker’s back; the loving if restless ghosts of Parker’s murdered wife and young daughter; and a sympathetic rabbi who knows more about fallen angels than he should. These mismatched warriors of the good are accompanied by Kushiel, a shabby, unkempt man who kills those who violate his strict moral code by preying on the innocent. As the Collector, Kushiel takes a souvenir from each person he kills, and is more like Parker than either man wants to acknowledge. He is not a random murderer, but hunts those whose crimes indicate they are both more and less than ordinary men and women.
Connolly’s books don’t need to be read in order of publication — each creates its own ominous aura in which there are no happy endings and no simple solutions.
I gave this book four stars rather than five because I was confused over the distracting inclusion of the wolf, which had very little relation to the rest of the characters or the story line.

Review #4

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Twelfth in the Charlie Parker series and certainly different from the previous eleven. If you haven’t read the other novels don’t worry too much. ‘The Wolf in Winter’ works well as a stand alone, one off, with any ties connecting the plot to the rest of the series sufficiently well explained.

I am surprised!. John Connolly has stripped away much of Parker’s original personality and he has become quite changed. Gone is the trademark surreal, mega violent PI and in has walked a much older, thoughtful, intelligent man. The Charlie Parker I know shows up from time to time, not until the latter half of the novel, but until then he’s almost a guest in his own story and remains in the shadows.

As for the villains, well, they’re an odd bunch but a long way from the demonically vile creatures who usually stalk Parker’s world.

So what’s going on?. I suppose Parker has to make the transformation from rage fuelled young man into an older, experienced character if he’s going to remain believable.

With Charlie Parker remaining in the background John Connolly has created a new lead character. Not what you might expect. The star of ‘A Wolf in Winter’ is a small, overlooked and decidedly eerie town named Prosperous. What Connolly fails to deliver through Parker he makes up for with his slow, meticulous creation of Prosperous. The place comes to life and there’s some great scene setting threaded through with eerie horror and supernatural elements. In Prosperous secrets aren’t the only things struggling to remain buried. What is that creature over there and why is it digging?.

I particularly enjoyed the themes around the ancient church of Prosperous. Is that a place really fit for worship?. Don’t look too closely!.

Once Parker becomes fully involved in the investigation the plot takes a more usual journey and the action picks up. There’s the usual fraught phone calls to Rachel and the uncertainty around having a child living so far away. Nice little snippets of information come and go which reflect Parker’s ability to feel emotion and help the reader bond with him and yes; Louis and Angel are still by his side though also somewhat transformed.

In parts ‘The Wolf in Winter’ is a brilliant read but; for the first time in the series I struggled to get into the story. I wasn’t hooked until about a quarter of the way through and then found myself drifting out of the plot only to be yanked back in when Mr Connolly began to hit his stride. This novel is much more about creating a sense of mystery and a solid story structure than showcasing Parker and his buddies, particularly in the first half, and I hadn’t anticipated the change.

Is it worth reading?. Absolutely yes. I’m a fan of Mr Connolly and Charlie Parker has been my favourite fictional character for too long but; I wouldn’t be truthful if I told you ‘The Wolf in Winter’ is the best book in the series. In my own personal opinion it’s not. That fantastically surreal landscape of nightmare characters and haunting visions that have for so long been Charlie Parker’s world have almost disappeared. I missed them.

Review #5

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This is probably the least supernatural of all of the Charlie Parker books to date, but is no less for that. The metaphysical is provided by a transplanted old English church in the middle of Maine along with a distinctly nasty version of The Green Man.
Unlike other books in the series the supernatural plays a support role to a more mundane search for a missing girl and the death of her homeless father, both of which are connected to the aptly named town of Prosperous.
The search and what it exposes lead to a climatic ending, which again reflects the more earthly aspect of the story and is slightly less satisfying than normal. But, don’t let that detract from what is a very good read and a very important one. The development of who or what Charlie is or represents behind a new journey in this book.

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