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Monette and Bear clearly love these kinds of stories too. They’re not warped until they’re unrecognizable rather, they’re treated with reverence. With A Companion to Wolves, they take several well-worn fantasy tropes - telepathic animal companions, small groups of magic-users living apart from regular society, young protagonist drawn to magic despite disapproval from his family, society under siege from magical beings - and twist until the tropes are fresh again. I haven’t read all of their stuff, but I heartily recommend both of them to anyone who will listen. Both of them are solo writers as well: Bear is a prolific writer of all sorts of speculative fiction, while (to date) Monette has published one four-book fantasy series and a couple of anthologies. The book is A Companion to Wolves, by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear. (I’ve only done that once before.) I’ve been avoiding writing this because it’s difficult to put into words why I loved it so much, but I have to try. For another, it’s just easier to put out a list of books on a theme with short descriptions for each.īut I recently read one that I loved so much that…well, I finished it and immediately flipped back to the beginning to start again. For one thing, I’m not up on the latest releases - I’m always scrambling along a couple of years behind. I don’t usually do book reviews here, for a variety of reasons.
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