Review: New Take on Werewolves
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 4, 2012
Love it! De la Cruz does not disappoint with her take on werewolves. This first part gives you the background for the series.We begin with the wolves not surprisinglg as Blue Blood fans will be familiar with Bliss, once a blue-blooded Fallen angel and vampire used as a vessel for evil against her will, now redeemed in a seemingly a weak human with a powerful task: she is charged by her mother with bringing her estranged father Lucifer's hounds back to the side of heaven and she had no idea how to do it and find them all while adapting to her new powerless human body. On Bliss's side is her Aunt Jane, a reincarnation of her little sister and Lucifer's sister, who also fights for heaven.Of the wolves, we learn that before they become hellhounds at 18, the soulless killing machines of Hell...wolves are mere innocent shackled slaves who dream of freedom from their demon masters. They are bred for their masters purposes and literally chained to prevent escape. Like slaves, much of their wolf history and even their original language (Hroll) has been ripped from them but they remember that once they were free, once they did not serve Hell and some yearn for that freedom.It is these wolf slaves that yearn for freedom and seem destined to achieve it against all odds that seem to be on a collision course with Bliss. But both Bliss and these freed wolves, led by their alpha Lawson--a name he gives himself, leaving behind the name his masters gave him--are not safe by the friends they left behind who have been turned into the soulless hellhounds that Lawson and his friends ran to escape becoming.De la Cruz's new werewolf tale is a powerful being to a fantasy/horror story, an interesting twist on a slave narrative, and a wonderful addition to the Blue Blood world she has so vividly created. I hope this is the beginning of a new series of books. I cannot wait for the next edition of Wolf Pact, spaced out into 4 parts that will keep readers salivating for the next one.