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Paizo has a history of going from good to great through a lot of trial and error in their product lines. The Adventure Paths have certainly come a long way from Shackled City. Launching their fiction line is certainly a big trial and with almost zero error.

This book is simply fantastic, the characters are fun and unique. I especially enjoyed Jeggare's almost Victorian attitudes on class and nobility and Radovan provided a great counterpoint to it. Frequently with a licensed material like this you get a generic story that throws in a few proper nouns from the source material but Prince of Wolves truly feels like a story belonging in Golarion and only in Golarion.

There were a few disappointments; this book is not the start of an epic adventure. Rather, it is just a short story inside the world of Golarion (albeit a good short story). As someone used to reading fantasy serials like the Star Wars expanded universe, the Wheel of Time series, etc I'm disappointed that this book seems to be a single shot.

I would recommend this to anyone who is on the fence about getting it; it gives a good perspective on the campaign setting that just isn't doable through the descriptions in the books.