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A review by nuevecuervos
City of Wolves by Willow Palecek
3.0
I picked this up on a whim based on a Tor recommendation and a BookOutlet clearance so like, for $1, I didn't do too poorly.
The city is called Lupenwald, and the body was found naked and covered in bite marks. It's left to the reader as an exercise to deduce what's going on here, lol.
But seriously. Our protagonist, Drake, is getting pissed in a bar when he's grabbed and coerced by lots of cash gold to take a job for a member of the nobility. Drake is a washed-up investigator, a remnant of the wrong side of a now-ended civil war, and he's got principles! Eat the rich! ...but the money! So he goes off to investigate, inadvertently starts a fight with a nobleman, eats with the servants, has a high-speed chase, meets up with a back-alley-wizard for some backup, and solves the crime!
96 Firefly-Harry-Dresden-Sherlock-Holmes-Every-Werewolf-Movie ever pages later, I wasn't sorry to have read it, but there wasn't anything that was outstanding or groundbreaking about it. So, if this sounds entertaining and you happen to have this tale on hand and an hour to kill whilst curled up with your dog as I did, it may be worthwhile to read.
The city is called Lupenwald, and the body was found naked and covered in bite marks. It's left to the reader as an exercise to deduce what's going on here, lol.
But seriously. Our protagonist, Drake, is getting pissed in a bar when he's grabbed and coerced by lots of cash gold to take a job for a member of the nobility. Drake is a washed-up investigator, a remnant of the wrong side of a now-ended civil war, and he's got principles! Eat the rich! ...but the money! So he goes off to investigate, inadvertently starts a fight with a nobleman, eats with the servants, has a high-speed chase, meets up with a back-alley-wizard for some backup, and solves the crime!
96 Firefly-Harry-Dresden-Sherlock-Holmes-Every-Werewolf-Movie ever pages later, I wasn't sorry to have read it, but there wasn't anything that was outstanding or groundbreaking about it. So, if this sounds entertaining and you happen to have this tale on hand and an hour to kill whilst curled up with your dog as I did, it may be worthwhile to read.