Review: I LOVE FULL MOON COUNTRY - IT'S AWESOME BUT, HAS GLARING FLAWS THAT ARE EASILY FORGIVEN!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 9, 2014
UPDATE: I enjoyed reading FULL MOON COUNTRY so much I am actually and honestly a little depressed.  FULL MOON COUNTRY left me craving more.FULL MOON COUNTRY (FULL MOON SERIES (vol. 2) is an awesome book.  In my humble opinion FULL MOON COUNTRY (FULL MOON SERIES (vol. 2) would make a kick butt werewolf movie if done with the passion and caring it deserves. The book has a thousand little flaws that other reviewers point to which alone are tiny errors but when taken together they do reduce the ability of the reader to totally lose themselves in this well told story.  My biggest gripe with the story is the army men are portrayed as FOOLS!  I happen to know that real army people are in no way whatsoever foolish.I do not want to give too much away but the Army command structure and officers are making decisions as if they are pacifists at heart when responding to the werewolf threat.  The real Army would mitigate potential legitimate threats soon as they become manifest.  So when the bite victims in the pen behind the hospital start turning into werewolves why does this hardcore Army guy POTTS suddenly become a weak-sista seemingly afraid to order the bite victims all killed BEFORE THEY CAN COMPLETE transformation into full fledged werewolves.  I can suspend reality enough to believe in a world filled with werewolves but to suspend belief in military common sense is too much to ask.Logic goes this way... An Army man who has lost half his face having experienced battle with fully evolved werewolves.  This same army officer in charge becomes aware of the threat a group of patients bitten by werewolves healing quickly and having large brown soupy eyes pose.  So he has two points of a three point logical equation.  Logic Point ONE, He can identify the bitten by their eyes 100% of the time.  The bat face is not always present so it is not a reliable indicator of infection.  Logic point TWO the Army Officer knows that the 100% of the bitten patients with soupy brown eyes WILL become werewolves upon the next full moon.  The third element of the decision is to ask the medical professionals do they have means to cure or otherwise prevent the bitten from becoming werewolves.  If the answer is no then their is no civilian solution.Now the military solutions are two and easy.  The first is containment.  Does their exist an available facility that can be made secure enough to contain the bitten once they transform into werewolves Yes or No?  If yes move the bitten to the secure facility before the full moon if NO then kill the bitten before they have chance to change into werewolves and kill all the un-bitten worried well.  I know there will be those who say but the full moon came a day early so they were not prepared.  My answer and any good Army officers answer would be KILL THE PATIENTS BITTEN BEFORE THEY COULD CHANGE INTO WEREWOLVES!  the decision is not pretty or popular but it is right to contain the werewolf contagion being passed by the bite of the beast.Oh if it was the authors intent for the bitten to get out even after good Army procedure is followed their are all kinds of plot twists that could be used.  The secure area was not built to spec's or was done on the cheap.  The area was modified after being built so it was not as strong as expected.  Evil conservatives in government and business out to save money at any cost falsified building inspection reports.  Heck there are billions of plot twists that could free the werewolves for more blood thirsty fun and frolics without making POTTS look like a big old Army WUSS!Don't get me wrong I totally love FULL MOON COUNTRY (FULL MOON SERIES (vol. 2) even with this glaring flaw I think takes away from the book.  I just think that all the character development that went into making Officer POTTS a real stand up Army guy gets squandered when in the heat of battle he turns into Chicken Little afraid to kill creatures more than willing to kill him.  I understand the doctors being namby pamby's but in an Army officer such timid icky sweet baby fine conduct can not be excused.  I had to take off a star for the dweebing down of Officer Potts at a critical plot point in the story development.As for the many mis-spellings omitted worlds and grammar flubs, I read for my own personal selfish enjoyment not to look for errors in writing or composition.  When it comes to reading I am a trouper, I can handle writing that is not polished so long as the substance of the story is not denuded in the process.  FULL MOON COUNTRY (FULL MOON SERIES (vol. 2) with all its flaws is still a first rate werewolf themed thriller.  I pray the author of FULL MOON COUNTRY (FULL MOON SERIES (vol. 2) is already working on the third instalment of this most awesome WEREWOLF country series.  If you think I am hard on this werewolf book in my review understand I just want the author to benefit from my insights.  FULL MOON COUNTRY (FULL MOON SERIES (vol. 2) is awesome work there is just room for improvement.  I shared my hard criticism only because; I know this author has greatness locked away inside them.  FULL MOON COUNTRY (FULL MOON SERIES (vol. 2) is awesome work and I will buy FULL MOON COUNTRY (FULL MOON SERIES (vol. 3) in a heartbeat soon as it becomes available.I just feel the author and the book readers who see my review deserve my best.  I love werewolf books and have read and enjoyed werewolf themed books far worse than this one.  My job as a reviewer however is to be as honest about my reading experience as possible so others know what they are buying.  My job as a reviewer is to also inspire awesome werewolf themed story writing talent when I see it manifest as I have in FULL MOON COUNTRY, Vol. 2.  I hope I have done well in both my duties with this review.  Thanks to all who read my reviews, you are loved!UPDATE: I just realized I paid all of .99 cents for this awesome book so I had to restore a star... This book earned FIVE STARS for 99 cents this book is beyond awesome.  I'd been an Amazon.com customer since 1999 and in all that time this is the best value I have ever gotten,  NOTHING I'VE BROUGHT ON AMAZON.COM has brought me this much pure pleasure for the pittance I spent on its purchase.