Tanya Huff: The Silvered

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Aydori is a small nation, with big problems. Its neighbour, the technologically advanced Empire, has been annexing small countries left and right, and Aydori, which rekies on the formidiable powers of its mages and ruling werewolf clans, is next on the list. Already many of the ranking members of The Clan have been killed, and now the Empire has kidnapped five of Aydori's mages. It's up to the relatively untrained and unskilled mage Mirian and battle survivor werewolf Tomas to rescue then from the hands of the Emperor, and turn Aydori's impending defeat into a viable defense.

Well, it's Tanya Huff, so of course it is a good book - winner of the Aurora Award for Best Canadian Spec-fic, in fact - and naturally I enjoyed it very much. Despite the fact that I'm not overly excited about books that feature werewolf dominance issues and use the word Alpha a lot.

But Huff's werewolf and mage based society was fascinating, and the main characters were interesting (and mostly female, which was a nice switch for a werewolf story), and the plot had me turning pages avidly. I'd love to see more of this world,