But there is no overt sexual content in this story Calla must remain pure until she is mated to Ren, although Ren sows his wild wolf oats with other willing females.
For one thing, Calla realizes the other wolves give Ren more authority, even though she’s a natural leader who has bravely led her pack for years.Ĭremer makes no apologies for Calla’s confused feelings for sexy Ren and equally sexy but mysterious Shay. But when Calla is drawn to Shay, a human boy whose life she saves, she questions everything she has been taught and believed. They also need to beware of the dangerous Searchers, whose motives aren’t clear.Īmong the young wolves, Calla Tor is alpha for the Nightshade pack, and Ren leads the Bane pack.Ĭalla and Ren have known since they were born that they would be mated when they graduated from the high school all the young wolves attend. They guard a wide territory and are ruled by witches known as Keepers, who give the packs everything they want as long as they obey the rules.
In “Nightshade,” the first in a trilogy, that hierarchy is made up of shape-shifters who are fully human and fully wolves. I thought they were a good metaphor for a human relations hierarchy.” They are intelligent, social, forming incredibly tight packs.
“I grew up in the middle of the Chequamegon National Forest in northern Wisconsin, a magical wilderness where wolves were an essential part of that mystery. “Werewolves have been depicted as ugly, cursed mutations, half-animal, half-human, beastly and horrid,” said Cremer, an assistant professor of history at Macalester College. Now, Cremer brings a new approach to these shape-shifters in “Nightshade,” her debut young-adult novel that’s creating big buzz among booksellers and on readers’ websites. You don’t need to know what happened in Nightshade to enjoy the story of Rift.Andrea Cremer always disliked the way werewolves are portrayed in books and such movies as Lon Chaney’s “The Wolf Man.” What I love about Rift is that it’s a story for people who have read the Nightshade trilogy - they’ll see the layers of history and how that’s connected to Calla’s world - but for people who are interested in the topic and are just coming to the story, it does function completely as a stand-alone. Rift will be the first of the books, and that will be out Aug. It’s knights and monsters and magic and religious conspiracy and all sorts of good things that you can pull out of medieval history. It’s set in 15th-century Europe, and it’s about the origins of the witches’ war, so what Calla is still fighting in contemporary times began hundreds of years ago. Because I’m a historian and I’m always interested in the origins of things, I have a two-book sequence that’s a prequel to the Nightshade trilogy, but it’s a prequel from way back when. Even though this trilogy, as you said, puts a period on the Nightshade story in some ways, it still is a world that has many stories to tell.
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