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|title=Aralorn: Masques and Wolfbsane

|author=Patricia Briggs

|reviewer=John Lloyd

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9780356501642

|pages=608

|publisher=Orbit

|date=October 2012

|summary=With an early work and a more recent success, this pair of Briggs novels in the same universe of magic shows the fantasy writer improve to where she is now – one of the more noted examples on the shelves.

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Here is what seems quite a rum [[:Category:Patricia Briggs|Patricia Briggs]] compendium – her first attempt at a fantasy novel, published and read by roughly six men and an orc back in the early 1990s, and what would appear the fourth book in the same series, dusted off after they both got a rewrite in 2010, and together at last for the curious completist. And if the rewriting ironed out a few creases it shows just how much there was needed done – for the first book is still full of minor problems – a man immune to, or invisible to, magic unless when it's needed for the plot, a host of exposition all throughout, and much that marks it down as a debut effort. It doesn't mean it's not worth reading however.

For a very different look at a fantasy with a woman alone but for an unusual animal, we'd suggest you try [[Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff]].

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