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A review by boggremlin
The Last Wolf by Maria Vale
3.0
Billed as a paranormal romance, but offers excellent world-building and a heckavalot of Anglo Saxon, some of which I was able to manage without the in-text translations (Dr. Bart would be so...proud?).
Upending many fantasy tropes, no one is particularly chosen to save the world (it's astonishingly community-centric), and the male protagonist is the outsider. Vale does a good job of handling a massive amount of information in a first-person narrative, and the substantial grimness and violence are offset by occasional flashes of humor and tenderness.
Upending many fantasy tropes, no one is particularly chosen to save the world (it's astonishingly community-centric), and the male protagonist is the outsider. Vale does a good job of handling a massive amount of information in a first-person narrative, and the substantial grimness and violence are offset by occasional flashes of humor and tenderness.