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... best served cold, March 5, 2011
This review is from: Frostbite: A Werewolf Tale (Paperback)
I will admit - I am a latecomer to the works or Mr. Wellington. I picked up the novel Frostbite on nothing more than a desire for some werewolf fiction. I finished the book the same day and went back to buy everything the man has written that was available. I find his books very addictive.
Frostbite presents a pretty unique turn on what modern media thought a werewolf might be. Taking form straight from an age that struggled through legends of fangs and fury, Wellington's werewolves take the form not of wolves but of dire wolves - something akin to the relationship between a tiger and a sabre-toothed tiger. Unique transformation scenes scream for a big-screen adaptation.
The book reads very fast, with the short chapters you feel like your rushing through the story at break-neck speeds. Things sometimes appear disjointed, leaving the reader with a little less than perfect understanding, specifically with regards to the main characters. But Frostbite is nothing if not a springboard for the second of Wellington's werewolf tales: Overwinter. When immediately following Frostbite and you feel that ache of things left unsaid, the resolve of the story is continued in the sequel to a satisfying is somewhat expected climax.
If you have a bit of difficulty finishing Frostbite, try to hold out and read Overwinter before passing judgment.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Fresh Werewolf Tale, November 9, 2009
This review is from: Frostbite: A Werewolf Tale (Paperback)
Frostbite is fast-paced and full of action, it did not disappoint. The characters are interesting and the brand of lycanthropy in the book is so devastating to their lives that it's hard not to sympathize with them. The settings are fleshed out and vivid. The only thing I didn't care much for were the transformation scenes, they were just too simple. Otherwise, Frostbite is a fresh and fun new addition to the werewolf genre.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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A quick read you can sink your teeth into, November 1, 2010
There was always something about werewolves that scared me more than the vampires, zombies and other denizens of dark imagination. Maybe it was because most of the other classic monsters managed to retain some human-ness that held out the possibility of being reasoned with. Or in the case of shambling zombies, they could just be outran. But werewolves? Now there was a creature that was pure animal, unreasoning and beyond control.
Frostbite was a book I purchased almost a year ago and hadn't got around to reading until I noticed a sequel has now been published. It's a good thing I knew there was a sequel, otherwise my review would have been negative based on some of the loose threads left at the conclusion of Frostbite. For instance, what was the meaning of the "belts" found in Powell's smokehouse/sweat lodge? or why did the possibly mystical character of Dzo suddenly disappear three-quarters of the way through the book? It's good to know that David Wellington holds out the promise of answers in the next book in the series.
The book itself starts out with main character Chey lost in the northern forests of Canada and about to encounter a wolf who will change the course of her life with a scratch across her ankle. Suddenly Chey must decide whether to return to civilization and a miserable existence or living free accompanied by the only man who can understand her - the werewolf who passed the ancient curse to her. Complicating the situtation is Chey's boyfriend who may have been using her as bait to kill Montgomery Powell, the other werewolf.
Author David Wellington does an admirable job describing the forests as experienced through wolf senses. He jettisons some of the traditional werewolf lore like full moon transformations (in Frostbite, the werewolves change each time the moon rises) and keeps others, such as werewolves' aversion of all things silver. He also adds some interesting twists, like lycanthropy is actually a 10,000-year-old curse that turns afflicted humans into the now-extinct dire wolf, a bigger, nastier version of modern wolves.
This is a fast-paced novel that are bored with the "domestication" of vampires and the like can turn to when they want a book that will speed up their pulses and keep them reading well into the night.
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