To completely give away the ending of the story, the enemy is defeated by shutting off the lights for a quarter of the galaxy. It's not that bad a book. The characters are interesting, and the political dynamics of the world of dog packs is cool, but it took way too long for way too little to happen. I admit, I wanted the final battle at Endor for a climax, and what I got was not it. Scholar of Decay is a Tanya Huff book.
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In my experience, most game fiction sucks. Thankfully, this wasn't so much RPG fiction as a novel set in an RPG setting. Which is good, cause I can only vaguely remember being bored to tears by Vampire of the Mists and passing off Knight of the Black Rose to the then current SO, before she ascended to the mantle of Demon-Ex, and not caring that much if I got it back. If anyone knows where I can grab me a copy of those suckers, I'd appreciate it. Think of it as Ridicule with lycanthropes.