Occultober Day 16 Wolf Hunt by Jeff Strand

Occultober Day 16 Wolf Hunt by Jeff Strand

Wolf Hunt is one of the best werewolf series on the market today because it manages to make the horror genre very, very funny—even while totally freaking the reader out. Jeff Strand’s bad guys really are horrible people, while his good guys are—well, let’s face it, the heroes, George and Lou, are bad guys too—they’re just not as bad as the true villains. In fact, they are two of my all-time favorite characters in fiction. They have me laughing right from the beginning of the series and I’m still laughing on the last page of book 3. They’re a little bit dumb, seriously stubborn, and surprisingly heroic and human as they try to make up for the admittedly stupid mistakes they make in every book. Things happen to them, and around them, and, unfortunately, to anyone in the vicinity.

 

There is a lot to love about this series—but three things stand out in particular. First, the villains are phenomenal. They are so clever in their sadism that Jeff Stand’s family might want to have him checked out by a mental health professional. It’s sick, but that’s what makes a great villain so fun to hate, isn’t it?

 

The second absolutely amazing thing about these book is the creative—but pretty untraditional—ways in which George and Lou continue to go after the werewolves they encounter. It turns out that silver bullets just aren’t that plentiful and that forces them to get clever—not A-Team clever by any means, but creative none the less. I was astounded by the myriad ways they managed to hurt the basically unkillable-by-conventional-means creatures. All the while soaking up tremendous amounts of damage themselves.

 

Finally, Jeff Strand’s ability to surprise me is absolutely amazing, and he keeps upping the ante with each successive book. I always think I know where things are going, and I’m always wrong. Strand just thinks so far outside the box that he is constantly coming up with amazing ways to advance his stories.

 

I suspect that this would be a great series in paper or electronic format, but it was my good fortune to encounter the audio version, so let me just add a few words of praise for the performance of narrator, Scott Thomas. All of the key figures in this book have totally unique voices that make them easy to identify. More importantly, Thomas really draws out the humor in the banter. I am really impressed that he did this without once breaking down into peals of laughter himself, as I did consistently while listening to it.

 

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