So although this third book is apparently the last, it may not be the end. However, Barnes has said that she’s not planning to continue the series in the near future – but hasn’t ruled it out, either. I had assumed that this would be the conclusion to the series but it is still open ended, and the events of this book don’t really move much beyond Book 2 if we consider how each ends. The second book is about Bryn trying to lead her pack despite being human, and dealing with a threat to her pack from some supernaturally gifted humans nearby.Īt the time of writing our shapeshifting project, the third book Taken by Storm had not yet been released, so I thought we should discuss it here since we weren’t able to do so in the book. The reason for this is that the series touches on some of the power aspects of wolf pack hierarchies, and much is made of Bryn’s difficulties conforming to pack life. When she becomes Alpha, this is really interesting because she is: female, and human – two things that are slightly unusual for alpha wolves in many current iterations of teen werewolf literature. We put our discussion of this series in the gender chapter of our book. A couple of Bryn’s friends also team up with her, and Bryn and her merry band of friends track down and stop the Rabid, and Bryn becomes Alpha of her own pack. That leads her adult human guardian Ali to take off with Bryn away from the pack. She disobeys Callum’s orders about a new wolf, a teenage boy Chase, and has to face pack law with a brutal beating.

In fact, the Rabid’s still out there wreaking havoc and is changing humans into wolves, which Bryn thought was impossible.

The series is aimed at a YA audience and tells the story of Bryn, a human girl who was saved by a werewolf pack after a “Rabid” wolf killed her parents.īryn is quite literally raised by the werewolves, and the first book is about how she leaves the pack after discovering the pack’s Alpha, Callum, has lied to her when he said the Rabid was killed.

The first of these is a series of novels by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Raised by Wolves and Trial by Fire.

I’ll also recap, briefly, the previous books in the series. Since our book has been released, two of these series have had a third volume published, and so I want to share some thoughts about them in the general context of what we discussed about gender and shapeshifting. In our book, we have a chapter on gender where we discuss a couple of YA series of novels that were unfinished at the time of (our) publication.

Trial by fire by jennifer lynn barnes