Title: Crossing the Silver Thorns
Author: Quillworks
What is 'Crossing the Silver Thorns'?
      - an adventure in both interesting perspective and setting!

Rating:
       8/10

EBI:
- Occasional typos
- Use of commas before 'and's or use of commas where an ellipsis might be more appropriate (...)

Review:
'Crossing the Silver Thorns' is both a fascinating and terrifyingly captivating story. Not only does it entail specific details of setting, animalistic body language and thoughts but also creates an entirely new world for the reader to get completely saturated in. With understanding of both features, the reader quickly delves into a huge adventure with a quick page and throttling narrative that completely questions both the land and the living. Having a dog myself, the kind of perspective is not only fantastic to read but constantly links back to the real world and real animal behaviour. The body language details used to show the threat displays and kind of hierarchy relationships each character has gives off perfect atmosphere as well as perfect encouragement looking for a role-model story of animal narrative. This story is a perfect demonstration of how great writers can write outside of the box whilst also maintaining the reader and trapping within a whole new box full of interesting spirals and side plots. Additionally, the chapter lengths are mostly consistent and almost always end with an invigorating hook. Even the first part - which details how the author decided to use writing to incorporate charity and thoughtfulness - sets the reader up to understand how sensitive and sophisticated a story stands ahead.

Blurb:

'Alema (aw-leh-may) is the dominant male of a small African wild dog pack, dedicating every day of his life towards his family. He has remained blissfully unaware of the world outside the secluded wildlife reserve his pack calls home, and makes an effort to avoid the barbed wire barrier that separates the two lands. But there are bigger problems under way. Poachers have broken into the reserve, and Alema's mate and pups become victims of their trade. At a loss without his family, Alema must travel to the strange and unfamiliar Outside World to reclaim them.

No longer protected within the conservation veldt, Alema is faced with a world overtaken by the upwalkers. A world where animals are killed for parts and dogs are forced to fight against one another in the streets. Beyond his knowledge, Alema has treaded upon one of the most high-profile illegal wildlife trade cases in all of Africa--and he is stuck in the middle of it all. '