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lightreads) wrote2026-01-31 08:03 pm
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The Last Soul Among Wolves by Melissa Caruso
The Last Soul Among Wolves
3/5. Sequel to The Last Hour Between Worlds, which I quite enjoyed. Secondary world adventure fantasy with F/F rivals to friends to enemies to lovers.
If you go by this blog, you’d think I read nothing in January. Which is not true, I did. I was also doing nanowrimo just because (I finished, obviously) and had few words left at the end of the day, so now we catch up.
Anyway, this was not as fun and stylish as the first, but was a pleasant enough romp. I will say, as enticement or warning, that it has become clear to me that Caruso writes her heroines as demi or ase. She is two for two by my count. More power to her, but I will say that either the book was slow to spell it out or I was slow to pick up the clues, because I had already started to wonder why this relationship felt so . . . nonsexual, non-electric, etc., a few hundred pages before I realized that yes, that is by design. She is doing a lot here to create emotional tension, which I liked, but if I’m being honest, the lack of sizzle took some of the air out of the emotional side for me. So, take that as you will.
3/5. Sequel to The Last Hour Between Worlds, which I quite enjoyed. Secondary world adventure fantasy with F/F rivals to friends to enemies to lovers.
If you go by this blog, you’d think I read nothing in January. Which is not true, I did. I was also doing nanowrimo just because (I finished, obviously) and had few words left at the end of the day, so now we catch up.
Anyway, this was not as fun and stylish as the first, but was a pleasant enough romp. I will say, as enticement or warning, that it has become clear to me that Caruso writes her heroines as demi or ase. She is two for two by my count. More power to her, but I will say that either the book was slow to spell it out or I was slow to pick up the clues, because I had already started to wonder why this relationship felt so . . . nonsexual, non-electric, etc., a few hundred pages before I realized that yes, that is by design. She is doing a lot here to create emotional tension, which I liked, but if I’m being honest, the lack of sizzle took some of the air out of the emotional side for me. So, take that as you will.