For an author whose personal fb is so anti twilight/meyer Anne Rice shows just how Team Jacob she really is.

The book started out excellent but quickly devolved into long droning on paragraphs that truly detracted from the story. What little of an ending there was was predictable... did he get the girl?

Ms. Rice is clearly out of touch with her younger audience as her 16 year old character has dialogue that would put most literary scholars to shame... Not to mention that all the main characters in the story are filthy rich, and all from inheritances... The couple of characters that do have jobs (though they clearly don't need them) seem to be able to find time to take off from work for days/weeks at a time without having to worry about reprisal from their employers...

Truthfully, I am surprised that Rice would attach her name to this book. For such an accomplished author, the plot is amateurish at best. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that someone else wrote the bones of the book and she only fleshed out parts. While I still wait eagerly for her next vampire and/or religious story book, if there is a WOLF GIFT II I will wait to pick it up at a yard sale.