Bobby can feel changes gradually taking over his body. Can he be responsible for the reign of terror that's sweeping London? Can he be...a werew... read full description
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Jun 29, 2011
William
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I really appreciated Tessier's new and refreshing approach to the werewolf mythology. While I don't think all the historical elements came together as cohesively as they should have, I had a good time reading this. I would have preferred to not even know what the book was about since the werewolf idea doesn't come into play for quite a while into the story.
Tessier's technical and creative writing is excellent, but like many of his other books, his tempo is completely off. Certain sc More...
Tessier's technical and creative writing is excellent, but like many of his other books, his tempo is completely off. Certain sc More...
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Mar 29, 2010
Mark R.
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Here's a pretty decent werewolf novel. The main character is a bit unlikeable--it's often hard to tell whether he's actually bothered or not by the deaths he causes when he transforms, though it's clear he doesn't particularly enjoy the thought of transforming. Some of that ambiguity works, but at other times, just makes me wish we had some other character to follow around for a while.
The supporting characters are pretty one-dimensional, except for a girl who appears halfway into t More...
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Oct 19, 2011
I really enjoyed this book and author. This is actually my first time reading a book by this author. What really drawn me in about this book, like many others. Lol. Is that Stephen King puts his review on the front cover over the book. And like many others Jack Ketchum doing the introduction was also very intriging. Considering I hate reading introductions. Lol. But over all a great short read. I hate how the main character Bobby lover, Angel, died. But other then that I enjoy the ending. The po
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Dec 21, 2011
Ben
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decided to read this after seeing it on the following list:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-am...
but, yeah, not so scary. sorta struck me as what a horror novel would be like if Alan Sillitoe wrote it... quick and angry, no-nonsense and realistic, but not particularly engaging... oh, and taking place in britain...
(it's a good list, btw... The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories, Song of Kali, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, and Songs of a Dead Dreamer a More...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-am...
but, yeah, not so scary. sorta struck me as what a horror novel would be like if Alan Sillitoe wrote it... quick and angry, no-nonsense and realistic, but not particularly engaging... oh, and taking place in britain...
(it's a good list, btw... The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories, Song of Kali, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, and Songs of a Dead Dreamer a More...
Jan 20, 2010
Mark
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Bobby Ives, an ex-pat American living quietly in London, is a Vietnam Vet who keeps to himself, apart from his relationship with Annie. But things have happened to Bobby - a mistaken death listing in Vietnam and a bizarre dream of ghoulish goings-on in Guadelope - and then Annie dies, perhaps at his hands. A werewolf novel of sorts, this is a brisk read and very well written but once we pass the mid-point, it lurches into unpleasantness - Ives’ violently sexual relationship with a street-girl
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Jul 19, 2011
DJMikeG
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When a book is covered in recommendations from Stephen King, Peter Straub, Robert Bloch and has a foreword by Jack Ketchum, you go into it with high expectations. This book failed to meet my expectations. Some artful passages and chilling imagery, but no likeable characters or emotional connection make this a flat read.
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Mar 11, 2010
Raegan
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Picked this up for a dollar on the strength of the blurb on the cover from Stephen King calling it "perhaps the finest werewolf novel of the past 20 years." Guess what? Mr King was right! A werewolf novel for people who don't like werewolf novels.
Jun 14, 2011
Kristine
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Werewolves and shapeshifters have been extensively chronicled and romanticized in the most mediocre ways possible (with the Twilight series as the most famous catastrophe to date). Thomas Tessier's The Nightwalker is an intelligent, original treatment of lycanthropy, which is definitely not for people who read the work of Stephenie Meyer.
The changes in Bobby Ives, the main character, may or may not be psychological in nature. The backdrop of the story is London, and there are exciti More...
The changes in Bobby Ives, the main character, may or may not be psychological in nature. The backdrop of the story is London, and there are exciti More...
Nov 27, 2011
Stephen King recommended author and book.
Book noted as "important to the genre we have been discussing" from Danse Macabre, published in 1981. King mentioned author in chapter 9 and said this about the book: "perhaps teh finest werewolf novel of the last twenty years."
Book noted as "important to the genre we have been discussing" from Danse Macabre, published in 1981. King mentioned author in chapter 9 and said this about the book: "perhaps teh finest werewolf novel of the last twenty years."
Dec 30, 2008
Carin
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Well written I just couldn't get into it. Interesting book, just not my cup of tea.
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Nov 06, 2009
Nick
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As dated as your Aunt Mavis, and about as threatening. Came as a recommendation, from out of the 80s. Main problem was I didn't care who lived or died - no-one was likable.
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Oct 18, 2010
Alejandro
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Probably one of the most interestingly done werewolf novels I've ever read.
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