Review: Dense convoluted plot
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 2, 2012
If you plan to read this book, set aside a lot of time. It's not that this book is hard to put down, it's that if you put this book down; and then you come back to it, you won't remember what the heck was going on.This book drags First Nations and Native American evil shifter and good non shifter wolf mythology into the plot--kicking and screaming. The author demonstrates a very sketchy knowledge of First Nations or Native American beliefs and culture. It seems First Nations and Native American characters were used because everybody else is doing it. This book could have taken place in Las Vegas, peopled entirely with anglos and it would have been the same.There should be a chart for characters and plot interactions. Multiple characters with the same name, assumed identities, who did what to whom and when: really the most confusing book I've read in a long time, and I read Gravity's Rainbow!Co-dependence afflicts every main character in this book. I wasn't very invested in the who dunnit because I couldn't figure out what had been done to whom, or when. Mill fires, murder by dismemberment, drunk driving accidents, murder, Hamlet-like baited weapons, stable arson, crooked or not cops, gas lighted and unfairly institutionalized women, prejudice without cause: it all got very messy, very fast.I plowed to the end and all the loose ends were tied up, but I'd lost track of which thread the knots belonged to. The author put out better books later in this this series, and they stand alone. Leave this one on the shelf unless you are a fan of confusion.