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Full Wolf Moon

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If you like suspense....Read this book. Not your usual werewolf story. It's a werewolf adventure full of twists and turns!
Set in a Japanese Interment Camp in 1942, Captain Maxwell Pierce believes the news of a werewolf is nothing more than a large timber wolf. But the navajo healer, David Alma Curar, sets out to prove him wrong. He has tracked a bloody trail directly to this camp and knows the evil that is lurking outside it's walls.
A great horror story....couldn't put it down!

This is one of the best pieces of fiction that I have ever read. It's fast paced and the characters were fully present in my mind's eye.

The story is both believable and fantastical. The story takes place in 1942 at a California internment camp where Americans of Japanese descent were forced to live.

Even though I don't have a visceral connection to the time duration being described - I was born decades later, and arrived in United States 45 years after the timeline of the story, I easily became engrossed with the story, living the lives of the characters and feeling their needs and emotions. The ending made me think and the book really involved me emotionally and intellectually. I would highly recommend this book for adults of all ages.

Full Wolf Moon is set in the early 1940s and takes place in and around an internment camp where Japanese Americans were being brought at the start of WWII. This story has mystery, paranormal suspense, and a little romance woven in. Through it all, there is the underlying feel of history and what the time was like for both the people forced into the camps and those running them.

Despite some editing issues, this was a well-written, fast-paced story that kept me involved to the end. I enjoyed the mixture of historical fiction with the paranormal.

I'm not a big fan of this genre, but when reading Full Wolf Moon I continually found myself up at night, in bed with the light on, reading instead of sleeping. I couldn't put it down. I enjoyed one of the main characters and one of the supporting characters the most, and understand that in the following book, Bitten, the supporting character I liked is going to play a more prominent role. If you like werewolf stories, this one is a good one. Unique and exciting.
John Rehg
FWA St. Petersburg Writers Group Leader

I recommend this book because it's doubly rewarding. That is, I kept thinking about it, and finding new connections, long after I finished reading it.

Full Wolf Moon is a compulsive read, a page-turner of a horror story. It takes place in and around a Japanese internment camp in California during WWII. For the people interned in that camp, life is already a horror. Now, in addition, people are being attacked by a werewolf-like creature that feeds on terror.

Together Doris, the camp director; David, a Native American healer; and Max, an Army officer, confront the menace and their own mortality.

FWM uses one of the great classic fantasy figures--the werewolf--as both archetype and metaphor. I felt that the struggle with the werewolf-as-archetype represents the dichotomy of human nature--our own better selves struggling to contain the beast within us. This is subtly addressed by a religious figure in the book. I felt that, as a metaphor, the beast also represents war. As in war, decent and honorable people are used, by powers beyond their control, for reprehensible acts. Likewise, wars claim innocent lives in horrific ways. The story shows internees in the camp as innocent victims of overpowering evil (the beast); in real life they were victims of the beast of war hysteria.

A thoroughly satisfying read.

I thought I could read Kathy Nappier's Full Wolf Moon before going to bed. Wrong! To sleep, perchance to dream? Steven King and Kathy Nappier require the same black box caution. Full Wolf Moon is a shuddery tale destined to make the reader turn on the lights and make some midnight cocoa. The setting, a Japanese internment camp in California during World War 2 intensely evokes the time and the place.The three main characters, Army Captain Max Pierce Doris Tebbe who heads the camp, and the Navajo healer, David Alma Curar battle the evil stalking the camp to a terrifying conclusion.