{"id":2954,"date":"2006-06-29T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:31","slug":"wolf-man-wolfman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2954","title":{"rendered":"Wolf? Man? Wolfman?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though this novel by Vivian Vande Velde<\/a> is now out of print,
The Changeling Prince<\/a> can be found in the library in paperback version, and if you have an hour or two to kill, it’s dark and grisly and entertaining. It’s also loosely connected to another Vande Velde novel called The Conjuring Princess.<\/em><\/p>\n

Weiland is sixteen… he thinks.<\/em> He knows<\/strong> that he’s a wolf who has been changed into a human. He knows he lives in a mountain hall full of other changed animals by the will of Daria, who is an evil woman. But that’s all he knows for sure.<\/p>\n

Weiland has been trained as a highwayman, and all he knows is fighting – hand to hand, tooth and claw. Being a man is painful and confusing, but Weiland hates<\/em> being a wolf. He can remember nothing in wolf form, though Daria once told him that the wolf pelt on her bed used to be his mother. Weiland is terrified of eating one of his housemates, or a human, and being unable to remember. Being a wolf brings on mindless animal instincts. Being a wolf also means sometimes stumbling into traps. Weiland must be wise and canny, or Daria will let him be killed. Her punishments are merciless. So, when Daria moves them to the town below their mountain hall, Weiland knows she’s got a reason… but what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though this novel by Vivian Vande Velde is now out of print,The Changeling Prince can be found in the library in paperback version, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3582,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions\/3582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}