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Immortal Lycanthropes (2012)

by Hal Johnson(Favorite Author)

3.44 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0547751966 (ISBN13: 9780547751962)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Clarion Books

review 1: I spent a lot of this book convinced I'd missed something. A lot of transitions were handled by Myron getting knocked out and waking up to some new character looking down at him and telling him that everything he's been told up until now is false. That's great, but. How about something true? Throw us a bone once in a while. I can't quite give it a 1 because there were some good ideas (the battle in Unknown Men's house or whatever was freakin awesome) but there were too many and not given enough time or depth. Too many "and weeks passed" which are concluded with "and the Myron ran away." That's it? And the ending. He realizes something based on NO evidence, turns into something completely unexpected, and the book ends. Yeah, the POV gimmick wasn't worth it and just made thi... mores confusing and rushed.
review 2: Difficult to categorize or to explain, this book begins with an observation on the cruelty of humans toward anyone who is considered too ugly. Myron Horowitz, 13, is horribly disfigured, and most of those who meet him cannot bear to look at his face. When I first began reading the book, I thought that it would essentially be a book about bullying since Myron, not surprisingly, is picked on by others at his Pennsylvania school. But before I could settle down to read with that theme in mind, the author took me off in a completely different direction. It turns out that Myron is a lycanthrope, part of a secret society of were-creatures bent on killing each other. Since Myron is rumored to be the chosen one, everyone wants him, and he is kept prisoner in an exclusive private school that isn't really what it seems as well as on a private estate. Through it all, he has no idea what animal he will be when he finally changes. There are many changes of setting, and strange characters that move in and out of the storyline, even an intrusive narrator who pops up to share his own observations through his first-person point of view. I'm not sure what the point of it all is, but the author certainly has a vivid imagination and a flair for fantasy and science fiction. I enjoyed this title quite a bit as well as all the animal characters and illustrations as Myron flees from one messy situation to the next. There's plenty of humor amid all the adventure too. less

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