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34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An epic, unforgettable thriller!,
This review is from: The Wolf's Hour (Mass Market Paperback)
Michael Gallatin is a British spy. Handsome, intelligent, cunning, seductive, he is everything James Bond could ever hope to be...except Gallatin is a werewolf.
Caught up in the troubles of WWII, desperately trying to uncover and stop a top-secret Nazi experiment, Gallatin meets a wide array of interesting and quirky characters, some of them friendly, some of them deadly. He must also come to grips with what he is, and face his own inner enemies...before time runs out. Okay, so a werewolf solider in WWII doesn't sound like a great idea for a book; or, at least, not a good book. But Robert McCammon pulls it off--he has written a top-notch, gripping, emotional thriller that defies logic and critics' expectations. Indeed, it has such emotional power--especially in the flashback sequences of Gallatin's troubled childhood--that it even wrenched a few tears from me...and that's not an easy thing to do. "The Wolf's Hour" is certainly one of my top-five favorite books of all time (and I've read a lot, people!). Robert McCammon has written some doozies in his time, but this one surpasses all of them. Gripping, thrilling, intoxicating...everything a good suspense novel should be. You want a war story? Romance? Horror novel? Action-adventure? This is it.
40 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not your typical werewolf story,
By Nathan (Wilmington, DE United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Wolf's Hour (Mass Market Paperback)
Robert McCammon is a very versatile writer -- each of his books is very different stylistically and thematically, but so far the three I've read have all been very good. Out of those three (Swan Song, Gone South, and The Wolf's Hour), TWH definitely has the least literary merit, but it is great in other ways.This book follows two plotlines, which alternate back and forth every few chapters. One takes place in Russia in the years immediately following the Revolution, and covers our hero's youth, and the other in 1944 Nazi-occupied Europe, which is where the main story takes place. The 1944 segments read like "Indiana Jones meets James Bond, with a twist." Constant action, usually our hero against huge odds. He always wins, always gets the girl, and although he's a beast on the battlefield he's the suave ladies' man otherwise. Still, this is a fun, fast-paced romp through Nazi territory, with several really fun scenes and many completely unbelievable ones. The thing that I really disliked about these sections of the novel were the depictions of the Nazis. Every Nazi soldier was a stupid incompetant who deserved a terrible death, and each and every officer a blatantly sadistic, evil fellow. Every Ally, however, is smart, resourceful, good looking (except for the obligatory caricature characters), charming and friendly. That just didn't sit well with me. This main portion of the book was an action-fest, but it was the flashback segments that were really much more interesting. The second story told here is that of pre-adolescent Mikhail Gallatinov, around 1920. After his family is brutally murdered following the Revolution, the kid is bitten by a werewolf. These segments detail his growing up and coming to terms with himself and the world around him, and are much better written and more captivating than the segments when Michael is grown. This book has its ups and downs. First of all, the writing noticably improves as the book goes on. At the beginning there was frequent poor word choice, bad sentence structure, and very poorly written action scenes. As the author grew into the book, though, that cleared up a lot. Unfortunately, McCammon for some reason in this book felt it was necessary to include semi-frequent relatively explicit sex-scenes, which I think were supposed to be erotic but most of the time just sounded stupid. On the other hand, the author raises and answers some good questions about werewolves, and thankfully silver bullets and such aren't mentioned even once. Overall, this is a fun, fast-paced book with lots of good action and some terrific scenes. Unfortunately most of the characters are rather one-sided and many scenes, such as Sandler's train and the concentration camp, are utterly unbelievable. This is a much better werewolf novel than the dreadful Moon Dance or boring The Silver Wolf, but it by no means is going to win any literary awards.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
TRULY UNIQUE!,
This review is from: The Wolf's Hour (Mass Market Paperback)
How many times can you say you've read a truly unique book. Because there are so many writers, especially in the horror genre, ideas seem to run out pretty quick, only to be repeated a few years later by another author. Well, at first sight, it might appear that Robert McCammon has just written about the same old idea of the Werewolf, that was created in the beginning of the last century. Thinking this, I was not prepared for such a unique story. I am awe struck even now. I dont believe that I have EVER read a book with such detailed action, and suspense. This is the perfect book for those boring, rainy, depressing days, when you need a little exitement in your life. My applause, once again, to Robert McCammon, for such a wonderful book.
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