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Title: Wolf Moon by Charles De Lint ISBN: 0-14-240077-7 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent werewolf novel.
Comment: This is one of the best werewolf novels I have read to date. I like the fact that the werewolf in the story is hero rather than a murderer. I also appreciate the Dark Ages/fantasy atmosphere in the story. The werewolf is supposed to look like a real wolf when in wolf-form (I'm tired of the many movies that have werewolves that look more like apes than wolves). The story has good characters (including the werewolf hero) who you can love, and a villian (a murderous harper with magical powers) who is disturbingly ruthless. There are some mild sex scenes I could have done without, and some good guys get killed; but all in all I think this is quite a good book (especially if you like good-guy werewolves, like I do).
Rating: 3
Summary: One of the few werewolf books which can be called "charming"
Comment: Kern the werewolf is first met running through the woods in wolf form, desperately trying to escape from a sinister harper and the sorcerous monster the harper's music creates. Kern escapes, but is injured, and he winds up in the care of a pretty tavern owner, Fion. From there, the book deals with Kern's ambivalence : He desires friendship with the book's engaging cast of characters, and his feelings for Fion are even deeper. But he knows that shapeshifters are hated and feared...how can he win friendship, much less love, without revealing his secret, which he believes will cause his new friends to hate and fear him, perhaps even try to kill him?
And then the harper shows up in the valley, and proves to be a sorcerer possessed of a maniacal, genocidal hatred of shapeshifters...and a willingness to kill even a shapeshifter's 'normal' friends and family...
The book has some sex 'n' violence, but it's fairly lighthearted, and the hero is about the least selfpitying werewolf in the genre.( A genre which one magazine reviewer described as consisting of," 'Why me?' Growl/kill!") And who can resist a werewolf book in which the lycanthrope makes friends with a terrified, hostile dog who senses his 'differentness' by first establishing dominance over the hound, and then taking the hound out for a deer hunt...two quadrupeds running and playing in the moonlit winter night? Or in which the werewolf hero, again while in wolf form, wonders if he can't convince his farm hand friend to groom his furry pelt along with Stram the hound?
I hope this book comes back in print. If not, werewolf fans would be wise to seek this book out second hand. It's worth a search.
Rating: 4
Summary: The best fictional book I've ever read
Comment: Wolf Moon was the best inspirational story I've ever read. This was my first time reading one of Charles De Lint's books and it won't be the last. Charles De Lint created a work of art.The dark setting was suited for the werewolf setting.The way that Charles De Lint incorparated a love story in such a dark setting was amazing. I think there were too many good people who died in this book There was a couple of parts that started to drag but overall is was an excellent book.
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Title: The Harp of the Grey Rose: The Legend of Cerin Songweaver by Charles De Lint ISBN: 0142400602 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Mulengro by Charles de Lint ISBN: 0312873999 Publisher: Orb Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Circle of Cats by Charles De Lint, Charles Vess ISBN: 0670036471 Publisher: Viking Childrens Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Spirits in the Wires by Charles de Lint ISBN: 0312873980 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Riddle of the Wren by Charles de Lint ISBN: 0142302236 Publisher: Firebird Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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