Spice and Wolf, Vol. 1
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- 18,99 €
Publisher Description
The life of a traveling merchant is a lonely one, a fact with which Kraft Lawrence is well acquainted. Wandering from town to town with just his horse, cart, and whatever wares have come his way, the peddler has pretty well settled into his routine-that is, until the night Lawrence finds a wolf goddess asleep in his cart. Taking the form of a fetching girl with wolf ears and a tail, Holo has wearied of tending to harvests in the countryside and strikes up a bargain with the merchant to lend him the cunning of "Holo the Wisewolf" to increase his profits in exchange for taking her along on his travels. What kind of businessman could turn down such an offer? Lawrence soon learns, though, that having an ancient goddess as a traveling companion can be a bit of a mixed blessing. Will this wolf girl turn out to be too wild to tame?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A streetwise traveling merchant and a very unusual girl have a lot to learn from each other in Isuna Hasekura’s enchanting medieval fantasy. Lawrence is smart and ambitious, but clumsy when it comes to friendship. Holo has the appearance of a normal 15-year-old girl…except for the wolf ears and bushy tail. That’s because she’s actually an ancient wolf god, something that makes her pretty lonely despite her playful confidence. We loved following along as these two unlikely friends became a loyal, winning team with the power to take on the scheming nobles and clergymen of their world. Narrator J. Michael Tatum brings a pitch-perfect naturalism to this character-driven tale.
