The Volk Advent

I received an ARC copy from netgalley for my honest review,  so thank you netgalley and publishers for offering me this book! ♡
This is a story is about :
An orphaned Siberian teen loses her job and home on Christmas Eve. Left on the streets to freeze, Faina flees to an abandoned castle for shelter. At the castle, she discovers the animal-torn body of a local recluse. No wonder Eurasian wolves are not recommended for the first-time pet owner. Can a girl with no past, preserve her future from accusations of murderer and a pack of escaped wolves?
This is a nice Christmas novella of a Siberian teen finding herself.
I loved how we see God's mercy and redemption working amidst all the trauma in her life.
This was my first book by this author, however I did enjoy it. It was fast paced and just alltogether an easy read. I give this book a 4.5 star rating!

The Volk Advent by Kristen Joy Wilks is a fairly short read at just over a hundred pages but within those pages the author did a wonderful job bringing the setting of Siberia to life. The story is a bit of a mystery mixed with a tad bit of romance with a lot of action set just before Christmastime. This one takes a reader to this bone chillingly cold setting and sets the stage by including a lot of different things that felt real to that area.

A young orphan girl loses her job which sets her on quite an adventure filled with very high stakes. Finding a body that has been ravaged by wolves it becomes apparent that something else had happened to cause the death but only to find out just who is behind it all.

There were a few things in the story that I’m not sure I was a huge fan of being included though which led me to rate a bit lower. And of course with the length of this one everything is a bit rushed through to fit the story into a novella length read so as usual I wonder how it would work if expanded and given more depth. But overall I think the setting alone was worth the read.

I received a copy from the publisher via NetGalley.

The Volk Advent
by Kristen Joy Wilks
Pelican Book Group


Children's Fiction , Teens & YA
Pub Date 01 Dec 2015

Archive Date 18 Dec 2017

I am reviewing a copy of The Volk Advent through Pelican Book Group and Netgalley:

Faina flees to an abandoned castle for shelter, after loosing her home and job on Christmas Eve, not wanting to freeze she goes into the abandoned Castle where she finds the animal torn body of a local recluse!
It's no wonder Eurasian wolves are not recommended as pets.
Can Faina, the girl with no past, preserve her future?
Find out in The Volk Advent:
Five out of five stars!
Happy Reading:

I wanted to enjoy this book. It was short enough that it was an easy ready. I just couldn't get past the fact that I could never really picture the surroundings in the scenes or where on the castle grounds things were taking place which left me disoriented. For a novella it focused a lot on describing the traditional food dishes, than the plot. I love the premise of the book and love the side benefit of learning about how other cultures celebrate Christmas, I just didn't think it was done well enough for my enjoyment. Teens might find it suspenseful and awkwardly romantic enough to not notice.