Review: Just okay, not recommended
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 11, 2013
This was just okay. It's a new take on werewolves, but I think Melling drags out the reveal just a little too long and doesn't offer enough payoff. The pacing is off - the story line ambles along and then you're suddenly slammed with all of the action in the last few pages. You don't really get a feel for what his idea of werewolf is until the very end, and it doesn't really fit with the rest of the novel. These werewolves can shift on command, don't change into actual wolves but are more of an 8 foot human-wolf hybrid, and other than being indestructible, are seem like pretty average people. So don't go in expecting an actual, "howls at the moon" werewolf.The last part of the book doesn't fit with the rest of the novel at all. The whole tone and style takes a drastic shift. It feels like two short stories that were melded together after the fact.So good effort but I ultimately can't recommend it.