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The Wolf Gift

door Anne Rice

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A young reporter on assignment is attacked and bitten by an unknown beast in rural Northern California and begins a terrifying but seductive transformation into a being with a dual nature, both man and wolf.
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I enjoyed this very much. Despite the occurrence of the occasional ripped off head or arm, the pacing is not too fast. The book takes its time to describe the environment, in particular the house in which a lot takes place. It has mystery and camaraderie and a loving relationship (even though that part seemed a bit too easy to be realistic; the girlfriend you sort of loved but that was clearly not a good fit to begin with conveniently falls in love with your best friend when you meet someone out of the blue who digs werewolves. Yes, that would also be my first reaction, 'Hey, a man with a wolf head. Let's kiss!.) Despite the fact that the book has some formidable female characters, it is rather male oriented, but at least some sort of explanation is given: there are female werewolves, but they form their own packs. Fine, there are precedents in nature, although wolves are not among them.

Overall, I just loved the idea of the house, with in the end a group of friends who occupy it. It seemed a lovely arrangement and I can't help liking groups of supportive friends in anything I read. ( )
  zjakkelien | Jan 2, 2024 |
Good Conditioned and purchased at 'The Crazy Lady Bookstore'
  ClanMcLaughlin | Dec 21, 2023 |
Great book, I hope this is the direction she is going to go in the future. ( )
  frankdjr | Nov 2, 2023 |
I enjoyed this right up to the end until she got really philosophical. I always enjoyed the vampire and witch books until she started spending more time on the philosophy and less on the story. ( )
  Bebe_Ryalls | Oct 20, 2023 |
A young reporter escapes being mauled by a man wolf and changes into a man wolf by the moon. His own actions soon result in a horde of police and scientists seeking him out, along with others like him...

I wanted to like this book, but I couldn't. My first problem was that I didn’t care about the main character at all. Reuben is 23 years old and works as a reporter. He talks like a 45-year-old philosophy major and having sex with women who aren’t his girlfriend; he is a bland character with no real traits. The rest of the characters are thin. That Reuben’s girlfriend is a lawyer or his mother is a doctor may seem interesting, but their careers define them a lot. All the rest are pretty interchangeable.

As for the writing, it is not stellar either. Besides being clunky, it’s replete with info dumps.

One positive is the mythology she has created for her werewolves, the Chrism, and so on. That Reuben accepted the change and became the werewolf version of Batman also impressed me. My interest in the rest of the book did piqued, but it did not captivate me. The Wolf Gift intended the first in a series to be the climax of the story.

It just wasn't my kind of book.

You can also find this review on my blog: Click here ( )
  librariefellngs | Mar 29, 2023 |
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Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.
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