Review: Sticks to the lore, and delivers
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 9, 2014
With so many shape shifter stories out there, and so many more novels these days that throw the lore that’s been established to the wind, I was pleased to discover that Lycanthrope by Robert Clark stuck with the traditional ideas.  Werewolves are killers looking for their next victim.In Roberts’s story, a group of friends challenges the idea of the very existence of werewolves in a kind of Bloody Mary fashion.  I like the idea of their little ritual, as I hadn’t ever read or heard about this piece of lore, and it added a creepy foreshadowing to the story.  And like those teens and pre-teens who play Bloody Mary, of course, there is a murder and the victim is torn to pieces—the scenes, leave you looking at the palm of your own hand wondering if you would dare if someone asked you to join in on such a thing.The police are little help as they refuse to believe the one thing that will put the pieces in place, werewolves’ do exist.  And as the group of friend’s numbers dwindle the reader wonders if they will figure out a way out before all of them become werewolf chow.I read through the book in a day and a half.  If you love traditional werewolf stories, like me, this story is for you.  My only problem is I sometimes found myself skipping over the bits that dove too deeply into the nuts and bolts of the police procedures, they slowed the story down and I wanted to get back to the “good parts”, the horror of the story.