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The Wolf and the Woodsman (Novel Review)

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  #fantasy #romance #religion " He will never know the stories that live in her marrow and blood .” I picked this novel up earlier in the year when I was quite badly burned from a camping trip and thought, perhaps, this juicy fantasy would distract me from my cracked lips and peeling burned skin. After I lost interest, I picked it up several months later and powered through to completion, and my god, I have a lot of things to say about this novel.                First of all, I adored the world-building. My main interest in all fantasy novels is the world that the novel is set in, how everything is interconnected and related to one another and what their inspirations are. The Wolf and the Woodsmen had Jewish-coded fantasy elements, as well as religions and forms of magic that relate to early Christianity and paganism. The variety of magic was impressive, and inspired me for my own novel, especially with how the different magic was especially tied to the belief of the ethnoreligi