White Fang 

By Jack London

White Fang, published in 1906, is a companion novel to one of the great descriptive novels of our time, The Call of the Wild. White Fang is written in the same approach as The Call of the Wild, and highlights an animal’s perspective on life. White Fang, the main character in the book, struggles to find the purpose of his life as he battles between the call of the wild and the want to be domesticated. After a large portion of his early life of being beaten, bullied and ill-treated, White Fang learns to hold his own by killing other dogs mercilessly. White Fang is passed from owner to owner, and lives a perpetual life of hatred and loneliness until finally falling into the hands of a loving owner, Mr. Scott.

London writes wonderfully in this novel, but some of the chapters were a bit choppy. White Fang does start off great, but tends to ebb and flow throughout. Luckily, the story moves with such celerity that the low points quickly pass by and the reader is instantly engrossed in the next section of the book, reminding the reader why they started reading it in the first place. London has no lack of description in describing animals in their own world, which is one reason why his work is timeless. London makes the animals real and life-like, and remains as one of the very few who can put the reader directly into the life of an animal. 

White Fang is a good read and is entertaining, but fails to achieve the same status as The Call of the Wild. Although, it is not as good as The Call of the Wild, it is still good enough to read.

I recommend.

-Scott