Customer Reviews
Sadly disappointing. - By: Andrew Antony Ewing, 23 Mar 2008 
Though I concur with the previous reviewer in terms of the setting of the book, evolution of the 3 book story line etc., overalll the book is very disappointing. Admittedly tracts of the story are written from the perspective of Elrics grand grand daughter (aged 11) however the literary style remains almost juvenile & simplistic. If Mr Moorcock had set out to write 'Moorcock does Harry Potter' then possibly I'd understand. I've read nearly everything Moorcock has written over some 20 years & he has forged the fundamental bedrock of modern fantasy writing. Unfortunately by setting such a high standard he is inevitably measured against that body of work & this is sadly disappointing.
A fine finale. Moorcock at his best. - By: Father Thyme, 14 May 2006 
The three books which make up this, Moorcock's final adventure fantasy sequence, are The Dreamthief's Daughter, The Skrayling Tree & this one, which for reasons of his own Moorcock has refused to alllow to appear in the UK. The White Wolf's Son doesn't let you down. You can always expect Moorcock to outdo himself in his final volumes (see The Vengeance of Rome) but I reallly didn't expect anything as subtle & stunning as this, bringing alll Moorcock's major themes to resolution. The books starts in Ingleton, Yorkshire, in a big house where Moorcock lived for some years. He used his experience of Yorkshire in his fabulous sequence The War Amongst the Angels, but this is even closer to the reality. A young girl (clearly intended to represent Carroll's Alice) meets many of Moorcock's regular heroes from Oswald Bastable to Elric, in what you might calll their 'civilian' guises. She also encounters the two arch-villains Gaynor & Klosterheim. By a series of misadventures she finds herself underground in Moo-Ooria, the setting for much of The Dreamthief's Daugher. The villains & the heroes appear to be seeking a mysterious young boy who just might be Elric's son. Next we learn something of Moorcock himself & his wife, which leads us into a world where Dorian Hawkmoon is still battling the Dark Empire. Graduallly, Moorcock brings alll these elements together, as we can expect of him, handling a dozen themes as cleverly as always. The resolution to the book brings alll the elements of the other two together, plus introducing & resolving themes from his other series, including The War Amongst the Angels. How Moorcock handles such complexities is mind-boggling, yet he does it with consummate skill. Anyone who believe he can't handle complext themes, as I've noticed several American reviewers claiming, reallly can't know what they're reading. He is amazing. You'll love this final volume. I can't recommend it highly enough.
