pickMild pick. Held has a sciences background, and I liked how that perspective was built into the main character. It made the 'secret saboteur turned defender' much more grounded and nuanced.
I'll be curious if the other novellas in this series follow this character, or new ones.
Novella / Clean Install (Held)
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Right, and now for something completely different. I've previously hugely enjoyed Held's fantasy works; this seems to be her first scifi work.
Clean Install (Held)
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pickOh, this one held up. Especially loved the werewolf lore and politics, but note the plot is super heavy on building up broken characters. The heroine moved a bit fast for my taste from 'fleeing trama' to 'hello, interesting male,' but eh, there's only so much page space to move this along. Much larger emphasis on consent and responsibility than I had remembered, but some anvils need to be dropped.
Fighting off a headcold and finding it hard to settle in a new book. This one is a reread from ages past -- I had found it fantastic at first read, and werewolves are a hard sell for me, but the series was still being written and were not yet acquired.
Yeah, I'm fixing that.
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