The meticulously crafted setting and the powerful, often moving rendition of characters and relationships – human and nonhuman alike – result in a brutal and beautiful novel about the meaning of honor. Rising fantasy stars Monette and Bear subvert the telepathic-animal-companion subgenre so thoroughly that it may never be the same. The rest of that series is on my MUST READ list for 2015.įrom the description and reviews, I had significant doubts about A Companion to Wolves, but with these two authors? I had to try it.įrom Publisher’s Weekly (starred review): However, though I did not much care for her Doctrine of Labyrinths trilogy, I went looking for any other of Sarah Monette’s backlist titles after reading The Goblin Emperor, and by that time I was also keeping an eye out for Elizabeth Bear’s backlist because of Range of Ghosts. Of course, living as I do in an area without bookstores, I seldom notice any title by simply browsing the shelves, depending instead on bloggers’ reviews and so on. I didn’t notice this book at all at the time, despite the wolves in the title. So, A Companion to Wolves was published in 2007. You can always skip that part if you don’t care whether the trellwolves are evolutionarily believable it’s obvious where I switch from one to the other. Okay, this is going to be a long post, because I want to comment on various elements of the book(s) and then comment specifically on the trellwolves.
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