- I’ve heard talk that this is a “literary horror” book. Always a term that fascinates me.
I recommend:
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Summary from GoodReads:
Meet Jake. A bit on the elderly side (he turns 201 in March), but you’d never suspect it. Nonstop sex and exercise will do that for you—and a diet with lots of animal protein. Jake is a werewolf, and after the unfortunate and violent death of his one contemporary, he is now the last of his species. Although he is physically healthy, Jake is deeply distraught and lonely.
Jake’s depression has carried him to the point where he is actually contemplating suicide—even if it means terminating a legend thousands of years old. It would seem to be easy enough for him to end everything. But for very different reasons there are two dangerous groups pursuing him who will stop at nothing to keep him alive.
Here is a powerful, definitive new version of the werewolf legend—mesmerising and incredibly sexy. In Jake, Glen Duncan has given us a werewolf for the twenty-first century—a man whose deeds can only be described as monstrous but who is in some magical way deeply human.
One of the most original, audacious, and terrifying novels in years.
My Review:
I have a bone to pick with this book. I want to know why books described as “literary horror” need to contain some of the most crude, disturbing, disgusting, grossly graphic acts of sexual perversion. Why? It’s not needed and over and over I found myself pulling away from the book and putting it down, thoroughly disgusted both with what I was reading and myself for actually reading it.
This book was not enjoyable. It’s a shame as well, because it had elements of the gothic feeling that I love and the story was a fascinating one, once one muddled through all the filth surrounding it. That filth was so incredibly distracting though it makes it hard to say anything else about the book.
This is one that’s talked about a lot online. The title is catching and people are bound to talk about a title, a book subject and a binding like this (the edges of the pages are trimmed with red, imitating blood). It’s very much one you want to check out before buying, especially if you are squeamish and prudish like me about graphic sexual acts.
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I’m so glad you wrote this review! I was thinking about checking this one out, but was unsure since I haven’t heard much about it from reliable sources. I, too, am squeamish and am not a fan of sexual perversion, so phew! Thanks for saving me, lol.
I don’t consider myself too prudish, but this sounds like a complete turnoff. I’ve been curious about it, mostly because of the cover I’ll admit, but not sure it’s for me.