FeatheryMinx ([personal profile] featheryminx) wrote in [community profile] yuletide 2021-09-29 09:50 pm (UTC)

For The Wolf - Hannah Whitten

Title: For The Wolf (by Hannah Whitten)
Media: It's a book!
Approx length: like 400 pages
Where to find it: It's at most booksellers! Barnes & Noble for sure, maybe your library?
What is it, in summary? I'll just copy over the official summary!
As the only Second Daughter born in centuries, Red has one purpose-to be sacrificed to the Wolf in the Wood in the hope he'll return the world's captured gods.

Red is almost relieved to go. Plagued by a dangerous power she can't control, at least she knows that in the Wilderwood, she can't hurt those she loves. Again.

But the legends lie. The Wolf is a man, not a monster. Her magic is a calling, not a curse. And if she doesn't learn how to use it, the monsters the gods have become will swallow the Wilderwood-and her world-whole.


I will also say that while the aesthetics are very Little Red Riding Hood, the plot is actually more like Beauty and the Beast? Someone somewhere* said "If you ever wished Beauty and the Beast had more eldritch forest monsters and political machinations, this is the romance for you." and that is accurate.
Content warnings: Provided by the author! And are very important Please Read
What do you love about it? I mean I personally am a sucker for fantasy romance, but I loved the worldbuilding as well! I also just. Love all the characters. They're very compelling and you get attached super quickly. It's also got quite a bit of dramatic irony? There's a certain subset of chapters (interludes) spread throughout the book and every time you hit one you're like, "Oh dear god, what now". It's a very fun experience.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it? Romance, with the main canonical couple (Red/Eammon)! Also Red and her sister Neve are the cutest, so their sibling relationship, and then then also worldbuilding. Most likely my prompts will be either for backstory or like, "post-canon" (which is in quotes because the duology is not yet complete).


*Someone somewhere is "Alix E. Harrow, author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January", the quote itself is from one of the blurbs that the author?/publisher gets for the book

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