The Wolf Gift
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (938 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0078XQZAQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 404 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A bluff high above the Pacific. As he resists the paradoxical pleasure and enthrallment of his wolfen savagery and delights in the power and (surprising) capacity for good, he is caught up in a strange and dangerous rescue and is desperately hunted as "the Man Wolf" by authorities, the media, and scientists (evidence of DNA threatens to reveal his dual existence) As a new and profound love enfolds him, questions emerge that propel him deeper into his mysterious new world: questions of why and how he has been given this gift; of its true nature and the curious but satisfying pull towards goodness; of the profound realization that there may be others like him who are watching - guardian creatures who have existed throughout time who possess ancient secrets and alchemical knowledge. The time is the present. A whole new world - modern, sleek, high-tech - and at its center, a story as old and compelling as history: the making of a werewolf, reimagined and reinvented as only Anne Rice, teller of mesmerizing tales, conjurer extraordinaire of other realms, could create. A daring new departure from the inspired creator of The Vampire Chronicles ("unrelentingly
Totally mesmerized by Chapter 5! If I am totally honest, I wasn't real excited about reading this book. I just kept thinking, do I really want to read a book about werewolves? The answer was a resounding NO. I bought the book because I love Anne Rice novels. By the time I had made it to chapter 5 I was totally absorbed in the story. An. "Ridiculous fluff" according to T. Davis. The Wolf Gift starts out quite well, the first fifty pages or so set up the possibility of a deeply descriptive and engrossing gothic novel complete with a possibly haunted house set in a beautifully bleak locale. However the novel quickly falls apart after our protagonist, the thoroughly unlikable Reub. Anne Rice Proves She Still Has the Touch ZadNostrom In my college days after a viewing of the then new Queen of the Damned movie I became curious about the source material for the film. I started at the beginning and devoured (with few exceptions) pretty much every book Anne Rice had written. As I was reading the Queen of the Damned novel (the book is WA