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The exploration of human endurance and community spirit in the face of adversity was a great theme and I was surprised to see Paver comment in her ‘Author’s Note’ that the similarities to the COVID-19 pandemic were unintentional.

It’s a darker story than many of those that have come before, with the Forest devastated by a disaster that throws the clans’ way of life into disarray and pushes the characters to their limits of despair. Skin Taker, fortunately, is a triumphant return to form in that regard. Viper’s Daughter, released last year, assuaged some of those fears, yet it still felt distinctly different in style to the original six. When Michelle Paver announced a continuation trilogy ten years after Ghost Hunter ‘ended’ the series in 2010, I had concerns that it would slip into what I’ve come to term ‘Cursed Child’ syndrome - when an author tries to continue a series years after its end and it ends up feeling like fan fiction. Is this series objectively better than some of the literary masterpieces I’ve read over the years? Probably not, yet I’d still rank it above most of those classics. I think everyone has books like that, though: the ones that seem as though they were written specifically for you, that speak to your interests and passions and contain worlds you can entirely lose yourself in. In a way it sculpted who I am as both a reader and writer, and as such I’m aware that rose-tinted glasses is an understatement. I suppose I should start with a disclaimer that I’m pretty much incapable of being objective with this series I first discovered the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness in primary school and it was the first series that I fell in love with.