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books2022-06-16 08:32 pm
marycatelli) wrote in books2022-06-16 08:32 pm
Holdouts
Holdouts by Thomas Doscher
The Vixen War Bride book 2 Spoilers ahead for the first book.
It opens with Patricia explaining to Ben what the reader learned a third of the way through the first book: that Alacea and he had married by Va'shen customs. And she also realizes that his first impulse, to tell her it was a mistake, is positively dangerous. She had told him things under the belief that she was telling her husband, and would think it treacherous to have weaseled it out of her by feigning it.
Patricia gets to do more research on their wedding customs, and meanwhile, Ramirez is invited by the Huntresses on a hunt, and argues Ben into it.
The plot involves holdouts, discussions of divorce, translating from Va'shen into Va'shen, an elderly vixen whose courage the Rangers admire, misunderstandings between prisoners, an attempt to interrogate someone who doesn't know the language, and more.
The Vixen War Bride book 2 Spoilers ahead for the first book.
It opens with Patricia explaining to Ben what the reader learned a third of the way through the first book: that Alacea and he had married by Va'shen customs. And she also realizes that his first impulse, to tell her it was a mistake, is positively dangerous. She had told him things under the belief that she was telling her husband, and would think it treacherous to have weaseled it out of her by feigning it.
Patricia gets to do more research on their wedding customs, and meanwhile, Ramirez is invited by the Huntresses on a hunt, and argues Ben into it.
The plot involves holdouts, discussions of divorce, translating from Va'shen into Va'shen, an elderly vixen whose courage the Rangers admire, misunderstandings between prisoners, an attempt to interrogate someone who doesn't know the language, and more.