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Silver | Rhiannon Held
4 posts | 4 read | 5 to read
Urban fantasy takes a walk on the wild side with Rhiannon Held's remarkable debut.Andrew Dare is a werewolf. He's the enforcer for the Roanoke pack, and responsible for capturing or killing any Were intruders in Roanoke's territory. But the lone Were he's tracking doesn't smell or act like anyone he's ever encountered. And when he catches her, it doesn't get any better. She's beautiful, she's crazy, and someone has tortured her by injecting silver into her veins. She says her name is Silver, and that she's lost her wild self and can't shift any more. The packs in North America have a live-and-let-live attitude and try not to overlap with each other. But Silver represents a terrible threat to every Were on the continent. Andrew and Silver will join forces to track down this menace while discovering their own power...and passion for each other.
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Mild 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.

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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.

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Oh, 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.

esurient There's a whole rich slurge of worldbuilding here, and I can't wait to read more. 5y
esurient Trigger warning: recovery from trama, if you want it done right do it yourself, backbone feminism, off-page death to children 5y
Clare-Dragonfly Backbone feminism? 5y
esurient @clare-dragonfly mm. Underlyingly there and matches to real-world culture, but not heavy-handed in-your-face, at least inasmuch as a character outright repeatedly stating, 'heck no, I have a choice here.' Probably not so much a 'trigger' as a writing theme. (edited) 5y
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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.