3.5 stars. This is Briggs' first novel, which has been out of print for ages and ages but was recently reissued. She added an introduction that makes it pretty clear that she finds the novel kind of embarrassingly bad and agreed to the reissue because of fan demand and not because she actually thoug...
I really enjoyed this one. I haven't read any of Briggs' fantasy books in awhile, but they were good reads. This one was previously published (one of the author's very early works, I believe), and now she's added a bit to it, tweaked a bit (probably fixed editing mistakes). The main story is still ...
I think this book shows the promise of what an amazing author Patricia Briggs becomes, but this book was hard going at times. Nice world building, but a little tired and done before. This is one thing she mentions in the intro, but for those covetous fans like me who like to glom an authors entire b...
Aralorn is the base-born daughter of a powerful lord but leaves his care to join a mercenary army. Because she is a shapeshifter, she makes an ideal spy. She saves Wolf from a pit trap when he is injured and ready to die. Wolf is a shapeshifting human magician who was once an apprentice to the very ...
I would rate this 2.5. Having read some of her other fantasy stories as well, I definitely prefer her Mercy Thompson series. Not sure if I will read Wolfsbane. For a first novel, it was not as bad as I was expecting. She has only gotten better.
I loved the magic here, and the dragon, and the mystery, and Aralorn is a great heroine! I continue to LOVE strong women in my books these days :) I look forward to Wolfsbane coming out later this month! Hopefully, I'll have time to read in in between all my tests and essays coming up.
Well, Patricia Briggs is one of my favorite authors and she didn't disappoint with this book. In fact, maybe my expectations were lower because several reviews talked about the book being a bit 'less' than the writing she does now. In my opinion it was not 'less' of anything. Yes, she wrote the or...
Masques was like a trip back in time to old favourites of the fantasy-with-female-lead from the '80s and early '90s, which is reasonable since this is a revised version of an earlier book. It felt like Patricia Wrede crossed with Robin McKinley and Barbara Hambly. Lots and lots of ideas (and fantasy...
This is very much like many of Ms. Briggs' other pre-Mercy stories. Considering this is her first story, it's quite good. A glimpse into her seemingly limitless imagination. There was a bit of a love story between the two main characters, but as with many of Ms. Briggs' stories, it's all quite chast...
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