A review by musty_dothat
Black Wolves by Kate Elliott

2.0

The world of Black Wolves is rich and imaginative; the prose and characters are great, but the novel is overly convoluted and long. The introductory section is the length of a novel in itself, despite contributing little to the overall plot, and the multiple threads in the novel are left half-finished and confused. It feels like the book is trying to set up a world for a whole series, but in trying to present all the threads of plot, I feel it fails to do any of them justice. It is a shame, as the world has a lot of promise, but I feel it would have worked better as multiple novels in a shared universe: a prequel in the time of Anjihosh, and then the individual tales of Dannarah, Kellas, and Sarai.