A Companion to Wolves

Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette
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A Companion to Wolves

Jain
12/10/2014
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If you've ever read Beowulf and said to yourself, "This is fantastic, but what would make it even better is more in-depth explorations of the society's politics and culture and more gay sex," then this book is for you. Excuse the abuse of exclamation marks ahead; I'm not going to even attempt objectivity in this review. Monette and Bear have written all of my favorite things: Vikings! Trolls! Interculturality! Pairbonding with wolves in a way that's not kitschy but actually cool and a little bit frightening! Men forced into what are essentially marriages of convenience with other men! People doing what they must to survive in a cold, harsh land! Any one of those story elements would be enough to pique my interest; to encounter all of them in a single (well-written and involving) book is almost overwhelmingly awesome.