helen_keeble ([personal profile] helen_keeble) wrote in [personal profile] rachelmanija 2023-06-26 08:51 pm (UTC)

I've read In Great Waters! I really enjoyed it. Some excellent non-human perspectives. Her third book was also great, though I'm completely blanking on the title (it's based on British fairy folklore, with some really well-drawn ND human characters).

Her first book, Bareback, SHOULD have been right up my alley (AU where everyone is a werewolf apart from a small minority of the population; werewolves lose their human minds on the full moon - which is the only time they transform - so the few non-werewolves are all conscripted into the dangerous and thankless job of policing the cities on full moon nights; heroine is a "bareback" non shifter). Alas, it's INCREDIBLY slow, tedious, and has a painfully unsatisfying conclusion. I kinda suspect she originally wrote a very different book, and then had it ruthlessly mauled by an editor trying to make it fit into a standard urban fantasy shape (it was published at the tail of the big popular boom in that genre, IIRC). It's notable that the writing style is VERY different to her better works - first person present single POV rather than semi-omniscient third multi POV in the later books.

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