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Another Five Kingdoms book where Tradition pushes people around, blocked by Godmothers and Grannies and anyone else who has sufficient power.
Isabella goes into the woods to visit the local Granny wearing her dad's old red hunting cape. (Oops.) She gets there safely, more or less, but on her way back gets bitten by a werewolf. The local King arrests her and throws her in the Manor where the local Duke lives, because he is the werewolf and they don't know if the bite will cause her to change at the next full moon. The manor has safe places to keep a werewolf (or two), although they don't yet know how the Duke escaped to bite Bella. But she can't be let loose as Tradition says the newly bit werewolf kills the ones they love first.
This is a comfort book, which Lackey is good at, where your assumptions are rarely challenged and you feel good while reading it. The banana bread of books. I enjoyed it while reading, but this isn't one of her exceptional ones that I expect to reread.
Isabella goes into the woods to visit the local Granny wearing her dad's old red hunting cape. (Oops.) She gets there safely, more or less, but on her way back gets bitten by a werewolf. The local King arrests her and throws her in the Manor where the local Duke lives, because he is the werewolf and they don't know if the bite will cause her to change at the next full moon. The manor has safe places to keep a werewolf (or two), although they don't yet know how the Duke escaped to bite Bella. But she can't be let loose as Tradition says the newly bit werewolf kills the ones they love first.
This is a comfort book, which Lackey is good at, where your assumptions are rarely challenged and you feel good while reading it. The banana bread of books. I enjoyed it while reading, but this isn't one of her exceptional ones that I expect to reread.