{"id":2005,"date":"2010-10-07T14:40:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T19:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2021-09-22T17:36:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T21:36:35","slug":"masques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2005","title":{"rendered":"Masques"},"content":{"rendered":"

Masques<\/a><\/em> (1993\/2010) Patricia Briggs<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is a revised version of Patricia Brigg’s first published book, and unlike some of her more recent works, is not urban\/supernatural fantasy but straight up fantasy. Luckily for me, it’s not high fantasy that takes 30k pages to resolve the story, but a fun story told in 300 pages.<\/p>\n

Aralorn is a mercenary who is also (secretly) a green mage. Those hidden skills have helped her out of numerous scrapes, and also helps her to rescue a wolf–a strange wolf who eventually speaks to her, and seems to have skills beyond what one would expect from a creature with four paws. Her green magic eventually leads her to becoming a spy, and it is as a spy that she eventually runs into serious problems.<\/p>\n

I actually quite enjoyed this story. Much of it isn’t subtle, but it is interesting and it’s quite fun. The nice thing about fantasy is you not just that you can have magic, but that you can swords and women with equal (or mostly equal) rights in the same world. As much as I love historical fiction, it’s hard to have a strong and interesting female lead character who is not also completely out of character for her time. Whereas if you make your own world, you don’t have to worry about such historical accuracies.<\/p>\n

Please note that as I said at the start, this is not a new work, but instead a revision of an earlier work, so there are some problems with the writing and the story telling, but despite those issues, it’s still a fun and enjoyable read, and one I recommend.
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Ace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Masques (1993\/2010) Patricia Briggs This is a revised version of Patricia Brigg’s first published book, and unlike some of her more recent works, is not urban\/supernatural fantasy but straight up fantasy. Luckily for me, it’s not high fantasy that takes 30k pages to resolve the story, but a fun story told in 300 pages. Aralorn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,291],"tags":[68,525],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-paper","tag-patricia-briggs","tag-werewolves"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/siQkW-masques","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4862,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4862","url_meta":{"origin":2005,"position":0},"title":"Cry Wolf","author":"Michelle","date":"September 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Cry Wolf (2008) Patricia Briggs My reaction to this book, re-reading it and after reading half the Mercy books and the short story anthology is quite different from my initial read. First and foremost, I realized this story is as much about Asil and Bran as it is about Anna\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fantasy"","block_context":{"text":"Fantasy","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/fantasy"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cry-Wolf.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13449,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/13449","url_meta":{"origin":2005,"position":1},"title":"Alpha and Omega: A Companion Novella to Cry Wolf","author":"Michelle","date":"September 20, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Alpha and Omega: A Companion Novella to Cry Wolf (2007) Patricia Briggs Comfort reading it is right now. So I decided I needed Patricia Brigg's Alpha & Omega series. Charles wasn\u2019t worried about dying\u2014 it was just that cars went too fast. He couldn\u2019t get a feel for the land\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "8\/10"","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1312,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/1312","url_meta":{"origin":2005,"position":2},"title":"Hunting Ground","author":"Michelle","date":"August 30, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Hunting Ground (2009) Patricia Briggs Anna was still getting used to the idea of being married to Charles when they go to Seattle his father--the Marrok. The American werewolves are planning on coming out, and the European wolves have been invited to ask questions of the Marrok about how they\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fantasy"","block_context":{"text":"Fantasy","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/fantasy"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hunting-Ground.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4868,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4868","url_meta":{"origin":2005,"position":3},"title":"Silver Borne","author":"Michelle","date":"October 4, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Silver Bourne (2010) Patricia Briggs This story has three separate story arcs: Mercy receives a call from Tad, asking her to check on the owner of the book fae book she borrowed, Samuel has started to sink further into his misery, and Mercy begins truly to have problems with the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fantasy"","block_context":{"text":"Fantasy","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/fantasy"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Silver-Borne.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24124,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24124","url_meta":{"origin":2005,"position":4},"title":"Burn Bright, Audio Book","author":"Michelle","date":"December 3, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Burn Bright, Audiobook (2009) Patricia Briggs narrated by Holter Graham (Alpha & Omega #5) Brother Wolf didn\u2019t like Leah, either, but he respected her more than Charles did. Hester in wolf form was, like Anna, pitch-black, though Anna\u2019s eyes were ice blue. In build, Anna\u2019s wolf was lithe and graceful.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "7.5\/10"","block_context":{"text":"7.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/7-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Burn Bright","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Burn_Bright-1.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10909,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/10909","url_meta":{"origin":2005,"position":5},"title":"Cry Wolf, Audio Edition","author":"Michelle","date":"June 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Cry Wolf, Audible Edition (2008) Patricia Briggs narrated by Holter Graham It makes me feel bad to admit it, but I much prefer Holter Graham as a narrator to Lorelei King. She just doesn't have the range for male voices that other female narrators do, and the Mercy Thompson series\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "8\/10"","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cry-Wolf-e1511046205243.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}