"But the author got the rights back and she's self-published it."
How could I resist a pitch like that? So I ordered a copy. Holy moly is this a good novel! And yeah, there's a super interesting puzzle in it that I won't even hint at, except to say that even the book's genre is a riddle that you'll have enormous great fun solving.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/04/the-wulf/#underground-fave
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