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I'm underwhelmed by this book, I found it boring and predictable.
It isn't awful exactly, but it isn't terribly interesting either. All in all, it's okay as long as you're not expecting compelling characters, a riveting plot, sharp prose, or anything else particularly special. It's a solid "Meh" from me.
Book is pretty dumb so far, but once in a while there's a nice sentence..
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pickI read this after one of SGJ's lectures, purely for the police procedural with a pack of werewolves in NYC aspect of it--and it achieves on that level. Fun. Goofy. Over explanatory dialogue. A dash of Cover Your Ass police politics. Love Triangles. And passages written from the wolf's POV, reminiscent of Benchley's Jaws, which isn't a compliment, but I dug it in a Movie of the Week kind of way. Non-pretentious fun. Sit Ubu, sit.
bailedI had to quit 120 pages in and I'm kind of annoyed I hung on that long. The bad writing really killed me. In fact after a while I started skimming over the looong paragraphs that droned on about what every single character thought and felt about everything. And then suddenly there's a jarring passage telling readers about what a "mysterious" wolf pack thinks and feels about everything. Not creepy, not suspenseful, not fun. Just no.
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