The Wolf Den (The Wolf Den Trilogy)

Reviews

FuriousGlitter

The character development and the plot are so finely established that you were completely drawn in by everyone. For a moment, she thinks of Felix. However, this book alone was enough to change my mind. -𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐢𝐝𝐨, 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞.

Emma

The authors language and imagery is brilliant. Women which due to no fault of their own were bought and sold as if they mere commodities and some were even stolen. It’s always somewhere I have wanted to go or take a time machine too – it would probably be too dangerous for a woman to stay for any length of time, and judging by what I’ve now read – I’m glad this visit was just via a book. Amara is not here for living the rest of her days as a brothel slave and is slowly starting to make her plan of getting out a reality - from attending parties with the rich, to spending a week with the Admiral of the Fleet to brokering loans behind Felix’s back to get out.

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🧡🐺-𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐢𝐧, 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝. The atmosphere builds beautifully, as does the sense of allegiance between the women. What I particularly liked was Amara's empathy for these characters, but also her challenges to them. It’s like walking around Pompeii in a virtual reality simulation it feels that real.

Hayley Westwood

This book tells the story of Amara, daughter of a loving Doctor-father, but when he dies, Amara’s mother has no choice but to sell her as a slave, then becomes a concubine until she’s sold again to Felix, who runs Pompeii’s infamous brothel, the Wolf Den. She is all the things you want from a female lead protagonist: strong, resourceful, clever, and yet she never loses her vulnerability or her empathy and emotions.

Miranda V

This book doesn’t beat around the bush with language to show how the lives of slaves in Pompeii and its brothels were really like. The first chapter for me was actually quite tough, I found it hard to understand what was happening, who was who - but it didn’t take long to get up to speed and become familiar with the world and the characters.

The booktrail

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐭 𝐬𝐨 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭, 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧, 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬. There’s golden nuggets of information like this throughout including sayings of the time. Set in the infamous Wolf Den brothel, the lead protagonist is Amara, who was sold into slavery and it is through her eyes that we experience both the brutality of The Wolf Den, but also the strength and friendships of the women there.

Roll on The House with the Golden Door! Amara was sold by her mother.