Sarah Monette

The Tempering of Men (2011)

I liked this a lot better than the first in this series. Both of our point-of-view characters love their lives as brothers to wolves; it isn't a traumatic coming of age story, as Companion to Wolves was. Some reviewers have said that there isn't enough movement forward in the plot in this one, ...

The Virtu (2006)

Already in the first book (Melusine), it seemed to me that Monette read and liked Pratchett, perhaps not a usual trait in her type of genre. Focussing on labyrinths instead of prophecies and gods was also well done.Just like both male protagonists are said to nearly look the same, the second nove...

The Mirador (2007)

The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth (2007)

Mélusine (2006)

This review seems full of nothing but criticism, so I'll frame it by saying that I didn't hate it, I actually enjoyed it, though you might not figure out why. Monette's involvement in recent blog affairs, plus her online present and most peeps in my environs feeling they have to read this book, m...