Name: The Wolf Gift
ISBN: 9780307595119

Anne Rice

The Wolf Gift

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           A young reporter escapes being mauled by a man wolf and changes into a man wolf by the moon. His own actions soon result in a horde of police and scientists seeking him out, along with others like him...

I wanted to like this book, but I couldn't. My first problem was that I didn’t care about the main character at all. Reuben is 23 years old and works as a reporter. He talks like a 45-year-old philosophy major and having sex with women who aren’t his girlfriend; he is a bland character with no real traits. The rest of the characters are thin. That Reuben’s girlfriend is a lawyer or his mother is a doctor may seem interesting, but their careers define them a lot. All the rest are pretty interchangeable.

As for the writing, it is not stellar either. Besides being clunky, it’s replete with info dumps.

One positive is the mythology she has created for her werewolves, the Chrism, and so on. That Reuben accepted the change and became the werewolf version of Batman also impressed me. My interest in the rest of the book did piqued, but it did not captivate me. The Wolf Gift intended the first in a series to be the climax of the story.

It just wasn't my kind of book.

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Vilandra

I did not love this the way I did the author’s other books. The first half is slow and boring, and it really doesn’t get going until 3/4 of the way through. The main characters are not the most interesting or likable, and the “romances” are ridiculous and not believable.

Yoomi

After I finished the book, I read what others had to say. I had avoided it before because I didn't want it to influence my feelings about the book. And I have to agree with the readers who were disappointed. The problem for me was that I just didn't care about Reuben, the main character who becomes the Man Wolf after he is bitten. In fact, I didn't care what happened to any of the characters so the book held no suspense for me. I forced myself to keep reading because I kept hoping it would get better. It is Anne Rice after all. Sad to say, I am relieved to be done with it so I can read something else.