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The Last Werewolf (2011)

by Glen Duncan(Favorite Author)

3.47 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1847679447 (ISBN13: 9781847679444)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Canongate Books Ltd.

series

The Last Werewolf / Bloodlines Trilogy

review 1: The werewolf novel we have been waiting for! This beautifully written novel brings the reader in to Jake,the last werewolf on year's world. Jake has been around for 200 years when he told that he is the last werewolf. By this point he is tired of leaving and wants to just the organization WOCOP kill him. But i had to feel sorry for Jake when WOCOP kills Harley his friend and insider to the organization. Jake is all ready for the last hurrah of transformation, when while in the airport he meets Talulla and everything changes.Overall I really enjoyed this book and would highly suggest to anon who loves werewolves. I felt like this book redefined the werewolf genre, and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.
review 2: I don't often give books 5 sta... morer reviews, simply because of the principle that no book is ever really perfect. But I just enjoyed this book so much that I can't help but give it the highest rating possible. This is not your typical werewolf novel. Though the main character is named Jacob he is the absolute antithesis of the saccharine,angsty youth of the Twilight novels. This is a real man, encumbered by centuries of struggle between his morality and his desperate joy at eviscerating human beings once a month. With absolutely engrossing, lyrical stream-of-consciousness, Glen Duncan has created a character who I found myself relating to, even as I was horrified by the grotesquely violent nature of his werewolf-ness. There is sex and violence, all of it vivid but not gratuitous, and folded in to the prose so beautifully it seemed perfectly natural and appropriate. This is also a book that is completely bursting with allusions to other works of literature, both the classic and the popular. The style emulates Victorian gothic novels, but moves at a pace worthy of the most pulpy contemporary fiction. Jacob is, as other critics have suggested, a thrilling combination of Jason Bourne, Patrick Bateman, and Jonathan Harker. It has been a long while since I have read a book that is so beautifully written and so totally entertaining. The Last Werewolf elevates the sub-genre of werewolf fiction to serious literary work that MFA students everywhere should be in awe of. Enjoy! less

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