The Last Werewolf - Glen Duncan

The Last Werewolf

By Glen Duncan

  • Release Date: 2011-07-12
  • Genre: Horror
4 Score: 4 (From 308 Ratings)

Description

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • Glen Duncan delivers a powerful, sexy new version of the werewolf legend.

"Muscular and breathtaking. . . . When you finish reading this novel, you’re going to feel full. But it’s a good feeling of fullness, just as Jacob feels after one of his moonlight rampages.” —Los Angeles Times

“A dark thriller. . . . Duncan has finally driven a stake through vampire supremacy.” —The Washington Post

Forty years ago I killed and ate Grainer’s father. Grainer was ten at the time. There’s always someone’s father, someone’s mother, someone’s wife, someone’s son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems.

Jake Marlowe is the last werewolf. Now just over 200 years old, Jake has an insatiable appreciation for good scotch, books, and the pleasures of the flesh, with a voracious libido and a hunger for meat that drives him crazy each full moon. Although he is physically healthy, Jake has slipped into a deep existential crisis, considering taking his own life and ending a legend that has lived for thousands of years. But there are two dangerous groups—one new, one ancient—with reasons of their own for wanting Jake very much alive.

Riveting, dark, and ferocious, The Last Werewolf is a supernatural thriller that is otherworldly in its brilliance but profoundly human in its heart.

Reviews

  • The last werewolf by glen duncan

    5
    By Arcane Mccaen
    This almost reads like a classic romance novel, or a traditional spy novel, or an erotic thriller. Almost. Deeply evocotive phrasing Excessively descriptive wording for nature and strong feelings. Deep feelings A long, busy life, even for a werewolfe. An extra long life, is winding down. Ready for it to wind down, too. Eventually, all lives wrap up this way. World weary. Murder and life. Life and murder. Compulsion for both. Tired of the killing, and the wandering, in a world without love. Then finding love. Guilty feelings, but talking about feelings has never gotten anyone, anywhere. Especially, a 160 yr old Werewolf who ate his pregnant wife on his first kill. So, when he is targeted as the last werewolf, and is set up to be hunted down, this werewolf, has had enough of life. He seems almost ready to be killed, and to be done with it. Almost. The beauty of chronic ambivalence, until he finds something worth living for. Someone. This book is great. - Robert Cain
  • The Last Werewolf

    1
    By Kittcattkitt
    Ugh - save your money! So hard to get through. Overwritten and dense. I was mildly interested to see how it would turn out, so skipped to the last chapter rather contine struggling through it. The parenthetical statements on their own would add up to a novella.
  • 100 Words or Less

    3
    By JRubino
    I put off reading this novel because I knew I wouldn’t like it – hasn’t this all been done before? Well, I was wrong. It’s actually very well written, finding a solid place in the genre of modern monsters. The plot has great pace, and the narrator’s voice seems perfect. But then came the last chapters. No spoilers, so I’ll just say it’s unworthy of the novel’s beginning, both in style and substance. Such disappointment. I suppose your reaction could differ. So if you like this genre, it’s a definite recommendation. Hopefully, the end won’t strike you quite as hollow.
  • Exceptional writing

    4
    By It doughnuts
    This book will challenge an American reader's literacy, peak his interest in the fantastical and leave him wanting to discover more.
  • Wow!

    5
    By jenscarbie
    Best I've read in a long time. Gothic horror, action, werewolves, vampires and romance all in one bloody package. Loved it!
  • Original take on a played out subject.

    4
    By Clay-Mage
    I love that the door is left open to many interpretations.
  • Excellent

    5
    By teamn2
    A truly imaginative and deeply moving story.
  • The last werewolf

    5
    By Los angeleno
    Brilliant!
  • Overwrought and Boring

    1
    By MatrixVoom
    I love a great horror book and thoroughly enjoy an author with a playful command of language. Unfortunately, this book felt overwrought and not the least bit scary or even interesting. 130 pages into this book and I was bored to tears. I rarely stop reading a book, even bad ones. However, it was a relief to shut the cover on this one and move on to something else. Very disappointing.
  • Howlingly Sexy

    5
    By Ghettosavant
    I haven't been this moved and compelled by a horror story since Interview with the Vampire. Equal parts James Bond, Horror and swooning romance, I was enraptured before finishing the first page. He writes with such a relish for language that paragraphs left me breathless, heart panting with anticipation.

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