First of all: Happy New Year to all of you! I hope your wishes for this year come true! I am just glad I survived Christmas with my parents and grandparents. It's the same every year. My mother cooks, is stressed, my grandparents mostly are the cause of this stress, my father doesn't care for any stress, my brother ... is my brother (his second name should be chaos) and I just want Christmas to end.

New Year's Eve was fun though. Thanks, Satine! And give Dina a hug from me (I am getting used to her)!

Ah, I also read a book mllesatine gave me: "A Companion to Wolves" by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear.

Hm .... At first I thought: Oh no! (It's not really my most favourite genre) Then I read on and gave the book a chance and it is really not bad. It was interesting in a weird sense and I wanted to know where the story goes, because I really could not see the main issue of the book. Did it want to show me character development? Or maybe relationships in a wolf pack? Or a love story? A story of war?
In the end I'd say there's a bit of everything. In my opinion one of the plots would have been enough. I waited for the big conclusion and a satisfying end, where all loose strands come together, but the end was more than open. You could easily add ten pages and nothing would change, you could remove ten pages and still, nothing elemental would change.

The worst thing are the names in the book. I couldn't imagine how to speak half of them and they confused me. I even had a nightmare where the letters of the names buzzed around my head and the names transformed into other weird unspeakable names. I woke up and was totally mentally exhausted. And then I swore to myself never to read this book shortly before I go to bed.

And although my review sounds very negative, I'd maybe recommend this book. And damn I want to know what happens between Isolfr and Vethulf and Skjaldwulf. :(