Meute by Karine Rennberg

[profiterole_reads]

Meute by Karine Rennberg was amazing! Nath is a mercenary that has been turned into a werewolf. Little by little, he builds his own pack.

Congrats to the author for writing in 2nd person, which I might not have encountered yet in a French novel, but it works surprisingly well. The writing style is raw and doesn't hesitate to be vulgar when it comes to the tough characters.

There's m/m between a protagonist and a minor character, but even though they don't have that many scenes together, the evolution of their relationship is engaging. Another protagonist is aroace and uses sign language. The third protagonist has synaesthesia. They all fit together with beautiful found family feels.

Comments

[author_by_night]

Second person is hard to pull off, so I'm glad you felt this writer did!

[profiterole_reads]

Yes, it's that thing that either I don't notice for a while (and then it blows my mind when I notice it) or I just can't help noticing (because it doesn't work at all). Fortunately, it was clearly the former in this case.

[author_by_night]

That's how I am with present tense, which I occasionally write in as well. It's actually not my favorite, but that's just how it ends up being written. But when other people do it, unless it's done poorly, I don't think much of it until that moment of realization.

I all but avoid second person, though, so I've only had that one time. Even then, the story was arguably first person, because technically the narrator was directing their "yous" to someone on the phone, so it was less a literal "you xyz" and more "okay, you try going through this, you try going trough that that".

[profiterole_reads]

I've never written in 2nd person. I probably wouldn't pull it off.