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Lost Dogs
When you're not alone in your head, it changes who you are.
When you share your body with a beast who wants out, you can never really relax.
Roy van Waldenberger is a retired wrestler setting out on a journey to attone for the biggest mistake of his life.
Alene Moneya is an aspiring travel journalist, desperate to see the world before her inner beast drives her insane.
Lost Dogs is Roy's tale and Alene's tale, and sometimes they intertwine. It's a tale of internal struggles, bad decisions, and of coming to terms with who you are.
This volume contains all ten books in the series.
"The series is a mix of chill philosophy, with musings on where the twists and turns of life take us ... and a collection of visceral action sequences that are exciting in their speed and brutality."
-- Jonathan Pembroke, author of the Holly Sisters series
"Finally, a werewolf book that's not a werewolf book. Ödlund forgoes the tired urban fantasy 'shifter' tropes in favor of a vibrant, inventive take on The Beast Within."
-- Joseph Malik, author of Dragon's Trail , and The New Magic.
When you share your body with a beast who wants out, you can never really relax.
Roy van Waldenberger is a retired wrestler setting out on a journey to attone for the biggest mistake of his life.
Alene Moneya is an aspiring travel journalist, desperate to see the world before her inner beast drives her insane.
Lost Dogs is Roy's tale and Alene's tale, and sometimes they intertwine. It's a tale of internal struggles, bad decisions, and of coming to terms with who you are.
This volume contains all ten books in the series.
"The series is a mix of chill philosophy, with musings on where the twists and turns of life take us ... and a collection of visceral action sequences that are exciting in their speed and brutality."
-- Jonathan Pembroke, author of the Holly Sisters series
"Finally, a werewolf book that's not a werewolf book. Ödlund forgoes the tired urban fantasy 'shifter' tropes in favor of a vibrant, inventive take on The Beast Within."
-- Joseph Malik, author of Dragon's Trail , and The New Magic.
1778 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 23, 2023
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June 20, 2024
I love this series! The characters (major and minor) are all vivid and thoroughly fleshed out, and each one is distinct. The settings are interesting and all different in terms of geography and culture. A lot of rich world-building has gone into these books! I love how the world is so much like ours in many ways, and yet it's full of fantasy elements that make it totally its own place.
Each of the ten books is written in a slightly different style, which makes Lost Dogs different from any other series I've read. In all of them, the action is exciting and the storylines are gripping. I never wanted to put my Kindle down! I was dismayed the last book ended without completely resolving things, but it was good to know there will be more books coming. I can hardly wait, because I NEED to know what will happen to Roy and Alene!!
I would have given Lost Dogs five stars if not for the poor editing. There are numerous cringe-worthy errors in grammar and punctuation, making it all too obvious the series has not been professionally edited. It's hard to get lost in a story when errors keep yanking you out. The ones I saw most were incorrect pronoun use (e.g. he/she when it should have been him/her) and misused quotation marks (when a character spoke more than one paragraph at a time, there were quotation marks at the END of each paragraph even if they kept talking without interruption). Usually I stop reading when a book has that many errors, but the fact that I raced through the whole series in spite of them shows how well-written this one is in other respects. I just couldn't stop reading!
Disclaimer: the books do contain a lot of profanity as well as violence (but the violence isn't really gratuitous; it's unavoidable for the kind of story it is). In addition, the author has gone out of his way to check the boxes in terms of inserting LGBTQ characters just for the sake of it. If you can put up with those issues, I recommend Lost Dogs to anyone who loves a gripping story with realistic characters set in a very well-built fantasy world!
Each of the ten books is written in a slightly different style, which makes Lost Dogs different from any other series I've read. In all of them, the action is exciting and the storylines are gripping. I never wanted to put my Kindle down! I was dismayed the last book ended without completely resolving things, but it was good to know there will be more books coming. I can hardly wait, because I NEED to know what will happen to Roy and Alene!!
I would have given Lost Dogs five stars if not for the poor editing. There are numerous cringe-worthy errors in grammar and punctuation, making it all too obvious the series has not been professionally edited. It's hard to get lost in a story when errors keep yanking you out. The ones I saw most were incorrect pronoun use (e.g. he/she when it should have been him/her) and misused quotation marks (when a character spoke more than one paragraph at a time, there were quotation marks at the END of each paragraph even if they kept talking without interruption). Usually I stop reading when a book has that many errors, but the fact that I raced through the whole series in spite of them shows how well-written this one is in other respects. I just couldn't stop reading!
Disclaimer: the books do contain a lot of profanity as well as violence (but the violence isn't really gratuitous; it's unavoidable for the kind of story it is). In addition, the author has gone out of his way to check the boxes in terms of inserting LGBTQ characters just for the sake of it. If you can put up with those issues, I recommend Lost Dogs to anyone who loves a gripping story with realistic characters set in a very well-built fantasy world!
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