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| Original Title: | The Wolf Gift |
| ISBN: | 0307595110 (ISBN13: 9780307595119) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Wolf Gift Chronicles #1 |
| Characters: | Reuben Golding, Father Jim Golding, Philip Emanuel Golding, Grace Golding, Marchent Nideck, Felix Nideck, Margon, Laura Dennys, Celeste, Mort, Stuart |
Anne Rice
Hardcover | Pages: 404 pages Rating: 3.54 | 25205 Users | 3002 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles #1) |
| Author | : | Anne Rice |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 404 pages |
| Published | : | February 14th 2012 by Knopf |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Horror. Fiction. Paranormal. Shapeshifters. Werewolves. Supernatural |
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The time is the present.The place, the rugged coast of northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood forest.
A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisco Observer. . . an older woman, welcoming him into her magnificent, historic family home that he has been sent to write about and that she must sell with some urgency . . . A chance encounter between two unlikely people . . . an idyllic night—shattered by horrific unimaginable violence. . .The young man inexplicably attacked—bitten—by a beast he cannot see in the rural darkness . . . A violent episode that sets in motion a terrifying yet seductive transformation as the young man, caught between ecstasy and horror, between embracing who he is evolving into and fearing who—what—he will become, soon experiences the thrill of the wolf gift.
As he resists the paradoxical pleasure and enthrallment of his wolfen savagery and delights in the power and (surprising) capacity for good, he is caught up in a strange and dangerous rescue and is desperately hunted as “the Man Wolf,” by authorities, the media and scientists (evidence of DNA threaten to reveal his dual existence). . . As a new and profound love enfolds him, questions emerge that propel him deeper into his mysterious new world: questions of why and how he has been given this gift; of its true nature and the curious but satisfying pull towards goodness; of the profound realization that there are others like him who may be watching—guardian creatures who have existed throughout time and may possess ancient secrets and alchemical knowledge and throughout it all, the search for salvation for a soul tormented by a new realm of temptations, and the fraught, exhilarating journey, still to come, of being and becoming, fully, both wolf and man.
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At the end of this book my first thoughts were....now to begin an amazing series of chronicles, and I hope that this is Rice's intention. In my eyes not as good as her greats like Cry to Heaven, The Feast of All Saints or the earlier Vampire Chronicles, but definitely back to her original style. And I weep with relief!!! Gone is that evil demon who replaced Anne in Christian clothing for so long, replaced once again with the witty, intelligent woman who encompasses her tales around the greatHeres a little history. I read Anne Rice when I was a teenager back in 1976. Yep, I was sixteen. When I was twenty-five, Anne blew my mind with The Vampire Lestat. Hail the Brat Prince. Damn, I still think Lestat is one of the best characters ever and yes, he has influenced my writing. In fact, I raced through the novel again to prime myself for The Wolf Gift.To backtrack, I thought the Mayfair Witches series was amazing. I still dont understand how HBO hasnt crafted a killer series from those
To my knowledge this is only my second one star rating of a book I finished...yeah, it's that bad. Years ago Anne Rice was one of my favorite writers. Her prose was so rich, so picturesque. Or maybe it's false memory. I don't know. One of us has changed.The Wolf Gift starts off as a rather typical modern day wolf man story but then quickly becomes Spiderman. Yes. I kid you not. A reporter gets bit by a mutated animal hereby giving him super powers. Powers he uses to fit evil and rescue the
My thoughts:I've been a fan of Anne Rice's writing since I read Interview with the Vampire, which is not to say that I've liked everything she's written. So it was with great curiosity and a bit of hope that I began to read The Wolf Gift. I was not disappointed.The Wolf Gift struck me as a gentle story in many ways. I know - werewolves and gentle don't necessarily go together. Yes, there is some violence, but mostly this book is an exploration of what it is to become a werewolf, of good versus
I was a little concerned when I first bought this book and then read some of the reviews of it on here. People were really ripping into it! Well...I hate to say it.....but they weren't entirely wrong about this book. Okay, Before I go on any further, I want to say that I love Anne Rice. I think she's a great storyteller. and her other books that I read were awesome! I mean Interview With the Vampire and her other vampire books were great! I had wanted to read a werewolf novel for a long time and
So, the Wolf Gift.What can I say? It could only have been written by Anne Rice. Im actually stumped as to how someone who hasnt read any of Anne Rices books before would feel about this novel.I get the feeling that the world of Anne Rices books and the actual world have grown farther and farther apart as the years go by. No one dresses the way they do in her books. No one speaks the way they do in her books. Certainly she had no concept of age The hero, Reuben already has his Masters at 23, for
I love werewolf stories, incluidng The Pack by Jason Starr, Bitten by Kelly Armstrong, Carrie Vaughn's Kitty series, even the were creatures in the Sookie Stackhouse books. I liked Interview With A Vampire and The Vampire Lestat. I've sampled from some of Anne Rice's other series as well because I keep hoping one of them will grab me the way those first two books did. So far no luck. I was really disappointed with the way The Wolf Gift was written. The information dumps near the beginning
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