Jacob Marlowe finds out he's the last werewolf living and has just been informed by the WOCOP that they plan to kill him during the next full moon. That's just fine with him. He's been living for almost 200 years and is just plain tired of it. So he plans to let the WOCOP's tails follow him and just let the death happen. The fates don't quite see it that way, though, and nothing quite goes according to Jake's plans.
I was expecting a completely different book than what I got due to the fact that the publisher sent it to me after my favorable review of American Psycho. I was expecting a lot of violence with some social commentary. What I got was a literary take on a genre theme highly reminiscent of Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire. This is not a bad thing at all. I highly enjoyed reading a richly verbose and literate book featuring werewolves.
Since this is werewolves and not vampires, though, the themes are different. First there's the fact that werewolves must kill to live, which is eloquently addressed in Jake's psyche in the book. Second is the fact that Jake is suicidal. The passages featuring his depression are reminiscent of the more depressed Lord Byron poems.
Unfortunately all these good aspects are a bit let down by the ending. It felt rather cliche and expected, and I didn't like what became the focus in the end. There are so many other ways the ending could have gone that would have been amazing and powerful, but instead I finished this book and basically said, "AGH not this shit again."
Overall this is a literary take on a genre theme. It is violent and sexual, but not disturbingly so. Recommended to fans of Anne Rice.
Check out my full review. (Link will be live on September 1, 2011).
I was expecting a completely different book than what I got due to the fact that the publisher sent it to me after my favorable review of American Psycho. I was expecting a lot of violence with some social commentary. What I got was a literary take on a genre theme highly reminiscent of Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire. This is not a bad thing at all. I highly enjoyed reading a richly verbose and literate book featuring werewolves.
Since this is werewolves and not vampires, though, the themes are different. First there's the fact that werewolves must kill to live, which is eloquently addressed in Jake's psyche in the book. Second is the fact that Jake is suicidal. The passages featuring his depression are reminiscent of the more depressed Lord Byron poems.
Unfortunately all these good aspects are a bit let down by the ending. It felt rather cliche and expected, and I didn't like what became the focus in the end. There are so many other ways the ending could have gone that would have been amazing and powerful, but instead I finished this book and basically said, "AGH not this shit again."
Overall this is a literary take on a genre theme. It is violent and sexual, but not disturbingly so. Recommended to fans of Anne Rice.
Check out my full review. (Link will be live on September 1, 2011).
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