In the authors first werewolf novel 'The Last Werewolf' I liked the way he put you in P.O.V mode of the character and the memoir way we learned of the werewolf. I liked The whole interview with a vampire styled way it read like. There was more a faster pace change and was written differently with a stronger male character. Here in this novel, which can be read without reading the first, the werewolf is a female protagonist Talulla who's expectant. Most of the story captures your interest in the More...

Glen Duncan’s back with the follow up to the brilliant 2011 novel The Last Werewolf. I’ve been looking forward to see how the story continues as I personally felt the last novel left off with a bit of a cliff-hanger. Talulla Rising continues the story, now from the point of view of Talulla Demetriou; an exciting strong female protagonist, whom I loved simply because she is both kick-ass and full of inner torment. The novel kicks off with a brief look back at Talulla’s life before being turned, a More...

This book had such promise: a world where vampires hunt (or is that breed) werewolfs (or werwulfs) and other oddities. The problem is the writing. I know this is a sequel, and perhaps that's the problem (I haven't read the first book). On the other hand, it could also be the writing style.

Here's what I mean: far too much is alluded to in one place, with bits and pieces of explanation leaking out in a sort-of "nyah nyah I know what's going on and you don't" manner. Take Talulla's nightmares as an More...

Despite its flaws, I enjoyed Duncan’s THE LAST WEREWOLF and looked forward to a sequel about a character who was less of a Gary Stu. I think what Duncan is doing—melding genre fiction’s plotty thrills with literary styling and depth—is important work. There’s no law saying genre fiction can’t be literary; sadly, Duncan is one of the few with the chops to pull it off. He’s far better than your typical “literary” writer who overwrites, thesaurusizes, and crams smirky, self-indulgent similes into c More...

I LOVED The Last Werewolf. Couldn't stop raving about that book. So I was anxious to read the sequel, but was totally prepared to be let down. Because let's face it, the best thing about the first book was Jake, and now that Jake is dead, well he's a tough act to follow. And he is a tough act to follow.
Unlike the first book, this one feels over-plotted, if that's even a proper description. I was never over the moon crazy about Talulla but given the book opens with her giving birth to Jake's chil More...

This is an excellent follow up to the Last Werewolf, which allows the reader to delve more deeply into a character introduced in that first installment. Duncan's characters are among the best in contemporary fiction. He knows people, deeply, warts and all and seems to relish showing them to us in excrutiating detail. At one point he describes a character as having an open eye where a heart should be and I can't help but wonder if this was a sly reference to the author himself. He is a flashlight More...

Note: There are necessarily spoilers for Book One in this series, The Last Werewolf, but none for this book, the sequel.

Talulla is a female werewolf who survived the murder of her werewolf lover Jake, killed by WOCOP, an anti-supernatural organization. WOCOP is still in the picture, but under new leadership and more outrageous than ever. The operatives of WOCOP seemed almost rational in Book One; in Book Two, the members are too deranged to be believable.

Talulla was left with a surprise by Jake More...

I know better than to criticize a book for what I wanted it to be, rather than for what the author was trying to accomplish. Still, I was disappointed by this sequel. THE LAST WEREWOLF was brilliant -- genre busting category fiction that was incredibly smart, witty, sophisticated and with a philosophical bent that gave the book unusual depth for a category novel. But I didn't feel the author brought that same sensibility, one that refused to be contained by the restrictions of genre fiction, to More...

Talulla Rising
By
Glen Duncan

My " in a nutshell" summary...

Werewolf girl is preggers by her dead werewolf boyfriend...chaos ensues!

My thoughts after reading this book...

Lu is in hiding in Alaska until her baby is born. Her pregnancy sounds horrible and she can't wait until this wolf baby is born. Lu is in hiding because vampires want her baby...

OMG...I was not even remotely prepared for this...the eating humans thing once a month when Lu becomes an actual werewolf? Raw and vivid and almost made m More...

Well, no one is more surprised about me liking TALULLA RISING than I am. THE LAST WEREWOLF may top the list of books I've read recently that I thoroughly disliked, but I had been sent an eBook copy of the follow up, and thought I'd at least read the first couple of chapters to see if it was still as bad, IMO, as the first book. Jump ahead 3 hours later, and I hadn't put it down yet, and then finished it today. It's like TALULLA RISING is written by a completely different man. Different storytell More...

This took me forever to finish and I am a fast reader - I just kept putting it down and days would go by before I picked it up again..it is the 2nd in a trilogy and overall the first (The Last Werewolf) was a better read. In this one Tululla, a werewolf, has two kid/werewolves and one is stolen by a secret society trying to strengthen an ubervamp.. anyway Talulla and her gang plot, get caught, plot, get caught, plot, get caught...etc. And through-out their efforts to retrieve the stolen baby/wol More...

Talulla Rising is book two in Glen Ducan's The Last Werewolf trilogy. The first book, The Last Werewolf, came out in 2011 to much fanfare. I didn't think it lived up to the hype, but I still think it's a book that horror fans might like to check out. It's certainly nowhere near the literary heights of horror classics like Dracula or Frankenstein, but it does bring a grown-up werewolf to the contemporary literary scene.

Let me start with what I liked about Talulla Rising:

I like the world Duncan ha More...

Pretty much picking up where THE LAST WEREWOLF left off ~ Talulla and Cloquet are hiding out in Alaska, awaiting the birth of Talulla's baby and hiding from WOCOP. Naturally things don't go as planned (the book wouldn't have a story if they did), and before we know it, Talulla's newborn whelp is stolen from her just minutes after she gives birth. A mom's gotta do what a mom's gotta do, and before long, Talulla is trekking across continents, willing to do whatever it takes to get her son back.

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In the first installment, The Last Werewolf, Jake is a horny and lonely werewolf. In the first few pages, it’s established that a) he’s lonely, and b) there are no female werewolves any more. It’s a boy’s club. Which means that, obviously, he’s going to find a girl werewolf and fall in love with her.

The second installment, Talullah Rising, continues the plot from the female’s point of view. She’s pregnant by Jake and on the run from both vampires and a world organization devoted to ridding the More...

After reading The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan and having a hard time getting into the story at first, I was a little hesitant to pick this one up. BOY AM I GLAD I DID!!!

I have always loved werewolf stories, but of late, they seem to only be in romance novel disguised at horror or silly teenage heart-throb tales with shiny vampires... Though there is plenty of romance, this is not a PG-13 tale of teenage longing. It is a visceral, violent adult story with true horror, lust, sex and gore.

Followi More...

This is the second in a planned trilogy by Glen Duncan about the lives and troubles of werewolves. In his first novel, The Last Werewolf, the premise was new, innovative and entertaining. It told the story of the last werewolf on the planet, although as it turns out, he wasn't the last werewolf. What made that novel so interesting is how Duncan made Jake, the werewolf, so human and so full of emotions, even when he transformed into a werewolf.

This novel picks up where the first left off, and foc More...

This is a fantastic sequel to The Last Werewolf featuring the werewolf Talulla. After the events of the afore mentioned book, Talulla is the last werewolf in existence but she is pregnant with another. She gives birth to twins though the first is snatched by a vampire cult. Talulla is determined to get her son back but this is no easy task in a world with the occult hunt in disarray, vampires getting more powerful and the gradual increase in werewolves.

A superior sequel is a rare thing but Dunc More...

Talulla Rising is the sequel to The Last Werewolf. It picks up nine or so months later with Talulla giving birth to a son and a daughter. The former is ripped from her arms and the rest of the book is more or less about Talulla searching for and trying to get her son back and keep both her children safe.

My reaction to Talulla Rising was all over the place. I liked it. I didn't like it. Duncan doesn't write women quite as well as he writes men. I mean Jake's world weary voice in The Last Wer More...

"Talulla Demetriou, you have been a Very (pause) Bad (pause) Girl". Glen Duncan creates literary magic again with his sequel to "The Last Werewolf".

I'm sure that I mourned Jake's death as much as Talulla did when the first book ended. Gone was the perspective of a two hundred year old werewolf who had spent most of his life in solitude, writing journals and speculating on the meaning of his existence (in between full moons). With my attachment to this guy, I was not sure that I would enjoy th More...

"Talulla Rising" is, as you would expect, raunchy, funny, and full of gory action. It is also a novel that navigates through quandaries about the risks of love, what it means to be a mother, and how to remain human while acknowledging our animal nature. I loved the "The Last Werewolf" largely because I found Jake such an appealing narrator. Based on the small taste of her voice at the end that novel, I was worried that Talulla would be too similar to Jake when she took center stage. To an extent More...

Gruesomely addicting. Talulla Rising transported me on a rollercoaster of emotions that ranged from extreme horror, laugh-out-loud comedy, and maternal empathy. I was immediately drawn to Talulla’s multi-faceted personality- werewolf, murderess, sex addict, friend, and survivor. I had a difficult time reading The Last Werewolf mainly due to the writing errors found in the book and my inability to connect to the main character, Jake. However, reading Talulla’s story had me mesmerized from the beg More...

I had read three of Duncan's novels before he released his first "Werewolf Novel" - "I, Lucifer", "Love Remains" and "Weathercock". I though they were very good. In fact, I have read "I, Lucifer" at least three times and "Weathercock" about two times. His prose is both elegant and modern, his insights on human behaviour quite perceptive and unflinching, dwelling on both the good and the bad facets of our nature (mostly the bad ones, actually). I though also that it was very brave writing; the th More...

Loved this! as much as the one before it, The Last Werewolf. Talulla Rising doesn't pick up immediately where The Last Werewolf left off. Talulla is almost 8 months pregnant and is starting to have trouble with the pregnancy as well as full moon coming. In the throws of labor she is found by the vampires seeking her blood for the Helios project.

Told in Talulla's point of view, the story sweeps you in and flows like water. Talulla is a strong female character that knows how to take charge and be More...

Okay, let me start by, saying if you haven’t read The Last Werewolf, I would suggest skipping this, because it’s hard to avoid spoiling the former and that would be a doggone or a wolfgone shame. Now go find a copy of TLW and get busy.
Talulla Demetriou has just given birth, at an isolated Alaskan lodge, under the watch of a ravenous full moon. Moments later, uninvited guests arrive, with murderous intent and snatch her baby. The story is Talulla’s quest to find her child, while evading a league More...

I was initial attracted to the first book in this series by the dangling hook of the title "The Last Werewolf." The nihilistic promise of a tired, mid-life crazed, confused, slightly alcoholic werewolf with brief moments of sexual/violent respite was delivered in spades. It ran along like a spy novel - with long rolling narratives punctuated by brief encounters with sex, violence or vampires (usually with plenty of cigarettes, scotch and moping in between).

"Talulla Rising" promised to be more o More...

I hadn't realized that The Last Werewolf was the first part of a trilogy until I recently came across Talulla Rising at my local library - and borrowed it immediately. After the cliffhanger that The Last Werewolf ended on, I had to find out what happened next! Talulla Rising didn't disappoint. All the Glen Duncan hallmarks are there: sex, violence, love (above all, love), loyalty, trust, family, psychic death and rebirth.... None of which the book's blurb can even hint at.
If anything I enjoyed More...

"...When I change I change fast. The moon drags the whatever-it-is up from the earth and it goes through me with crazy wriggling impatience . . . I’m twisted, torn, churned, throttled—then rushed through a blind chicane into ludicrous power . . . A heel settles. A last canine hurries through. A shoulder blade pops. The woman is a werewolf.

The woman is Talulla Demetriou.
She’s grieving for her werewolf lover, Jake, whose violent death has left her alone with her own sublime monstrousness. On the r More...

Blood, birth, and the rise of Tululla


This would be my choice for Tululla. Thank you, American Werewolf in London--which has THE best props. Way better than the cycles of the moon.

Oh, you know me...

I didn't read The Last Werewolf, but when I was offered the chance to read the newest installment in the series, I hopped on it. Who needs a first book anyway, I thought. So away I went, and immediately began second guessing my decision. If I'm anything at all, it's tenacious. I surged ahead.

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