Foxhunt

Paperback, 326 pages

Published Aug. 20, 2021 by Queen of Swords Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-7343603-2-5

(1 review)

In a lush solarpunk future, plants have stripped most of the poison from the air and bounty hunters keep resource hoarders in check. Orfeus only wants to be a traveling singer, famed and adored. She has her share of secrets, but she’s no energy criminal, so why does a bounty hunter want her dead? Not just any bounty hunter but the Wolf, most fearsome of all the Order of the Vengeful Wild. Orfeus will call in every favor she has to find out, seeking answers while clinging to her pride and fending off the hunters of the Wild. But she isn’t the only one at risk: every misstep endangers the enemies she turns into allies, and the allies she brings into danger. There are worse monsters than the Wolf hiding in this new green world.

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velvet_shrimp@bookwyrm.social reviewed Foxhunt by Rem Wigmore

3 stars

Stumbled upon this book when I was looking for a solarpunk novel. It's set in a future where mankind has overcome the environment struggles we are dealing with today and also social injustices, war etc. I have to say I did enjoy reading it but it takes some getting used to. Characters with a variety of pronouns pop up which I had to look up. Also some I found irritating ("xe/xey" specifically, probs my brain doesn know how to pronounce them therefore was unable to compute) and difficult to read past. But it's only that I am not accustomed yo seeing this I think. The story was alright, it didn't resonate with me that much though. The main character is sort of an egoistic ass some times and not the classical hero type, which I liked.