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The Boy-Wolf
Lashti is definitely no ordinary young man. He has a terrible secret: when the full moon rises, he becomes a wolf. Only Vivia’s love can cure him.
Vivia, nearly fifteen, has never felt the way Lashti makes her feel, and the stories and ballads call this feeling "love." But to let the feeling come to its fruition would deprive Vivia of her gift of “guile,” the psychic powers of insight, influence, and illusion that will someday make her a great healer. So she has a choice to make. Will it be the right one? There’s no way of knowing until after it’s made.
And maybe not even then.
“The Boy-Wolf” is a story of young love, of superstition and illusion, of growing up. And of choosing…
Vivia, nearly fifteen, has never felt the way Lashti makes her feel, and the stories and ballads call this feeling "love." But to let the feeling come to its fruition would deprive Vivia of her gift of “guile,” the psychic powers of insight, influence, and illusion that will someday make her a great healer. So she has a choice to make. Will it be the right one? There’s no way of knowing until after it’s made.
And maybe not even then.
“The Boy-Wolf” is a story of young love, of superstition and illusion, of growing up. And of choosing…
30 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 2, 2014
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July 22, 2016
It is such a delight to find a new author (new to you, that is) who can really write.
This story tells of the sweet love affair between a young girl being schooled in witchcraft and a young boy who believes he is a wolf. It has a refreshingly different slant on the traditional werewolf stories with which we are familiar.
But the real joy for me was the confidence and fluency of the author’s writing style. Not once did my concentration break because the author had made a grammatical error or a spelling mistake, or it just felt wrong. And I loved the ending . . .
Highly recommended.
This story tells of the sweet love affair between a young girl being schooled in witchcraft and a young boy who believes he is a wolf. It has a refreshingly different slant on the traditional werewolf stories with which we are familiar.
But the real joy for me was the confidence and fluency of the author’s writing style. Not once did my concentration break because the author had made a grammatical error or a spelling mistake, or it just felt wrong. And I loved the ending . . .
Highly recommended.
May 6, 2014
The Wolf inside is a familiar theme in fantasy of course but this story comes at it from the slightly different angle where the girl in the hood is a young witch coming into her full power and the boy-wolf's human persona is fatally flawed.
Well-written and observed, with more than a nod towards the true natural integrity of the intelligent pack animal from which our most loyal and devoted pets are descended, there's a fresh feel and spirit to this too-short novella. I also liked the way that the education of witches is handled in a much more organic and ancient manner which made a nice change from collegiate methods, so much so I was delighted to learn that Vivia, the heroine has returned in a full-length novel, A Glimmer of Guile, so that's next on my shopping list.
The stars - this is a very high 4 and the most I've ever scored a short story/novella which is a form I'm not too fond of as stand alones.
Well-written and observed, with more than a nod towards the true natural integrity of the intelligent pack animal from which our most loyal and devoted pets are descended, there's a fresh feel and spirit to this too-short novella. I also liked the way that the education of witches is handled in a much more organic and ancient manner which made a nice change from collegiate methods, so much so I was delighted to learn that Vivia, the heroine has returned in a full-length novel, A Glimmer of Guile, so that's next on my shopping list.
The stars - this is a very high 4 and the most I've ever scored a short story/novella which is a form I'm not too fond of as stand alones.
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