Good morning!
Welcome back to Wednesday Words, where I use Random.org to supply a few lines of the book I'm currently reading.
Today, I will be starting Talulla Rising, the sequel to Glen Duncan's The Last Werewolf, which I finished a few weeks back and loved. As I haven't started it yet, I hope the lines I provide don't really spoil much for me. ^-^
There are 352 pages in this book, and Random.org has given me....Page 314. So it REALLY wants to spoil it for me! lol
There are 33 lines on that particular page, so putting that through Random.org....Line 3. So I'll go ahead and give you the first 3 lines. We're in the middle of someone's conversation.
"Are you out of your mind?" Jacqueline said.
"Don't speak. Just do it."
"My lord, for God's sake," Jacqueline said.
I can't wait to see what that's all about. Whatever it is, according to Line 4, it hasn't been done since the 1200s. lol
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- Debra Renée Byrd
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- Deborah Hawkins, penned Debra Renée Byrd, began writing after a blank book project in elementary school and never stopped, fashioning stories based on her favorite TV shows and movies before creating more original works. She studied at the University of the Arts and Florida State University before settling down and graduating from Temple University. She now resides in her hometown of Dover, DE, where she spends most of her time at work or at church. She loves fantasies, superheroes, is a trekkie and a brown coat. She loves television and lives for Final Fantasy video games, having collected most of them. She has read a myriad of authors, and her favorite authors change whenever she finds a new book that changes her life... "When you can't run, you crawl. When you can't crawl...well, you know the rest." -Tracey, Firefly, "The Message"
Showing posts with label The Last Werewolf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Last Werewolf. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Express Yourself: The Last Book
Happy Tuesday! Welcome back to Express Yourself, created by Jackie @ Bouquet of Books and Dani @ Entertaining Interests.
This week they asked what the last book we read was. The title to my post is a not-very-clever play on the last book I read: The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan.
This was actually the first werewolf novel I've ever read. I read The Last Vampire by Christopher Pike back when I was a teenager, then Fledgling by Octavia Butler, both vampire fiction. I happened to pick this up because...I was in the D's in the library? And the cover intrigued me? And I hadn't read a werewolf novel before. I hadn't heard of the author before.
But now that I have, I am in love. And already have the next book from the library.
The Last Werewolf is about (you guessed it) the last living werewolf, Jacob Marlowe, who has actually given up on living and plans to drink and smoke and wait for the hunter, who set out to kill him for eating his father, to come kill him. I'm not going to give anything away, because if you saw me reading it on Twitter, you know there was a twist that I should've seen coming and didn't.
Looking at reviews, some people hated it, and I've no idea why, unless they were looking for Twilight or something. It's very internal--Jacob goes through a lot of reflection--and reeks of the male species, lol. That's not a bad thing; it's a very masculine book to me. I enjoyed the principal characters, Jacob, Harley (who I imagined looks like an older version of Glen by his description), and Ellis (who I couldn't help but imagine looks like James Marsden mixed with Sephiroth). They were all unique and genuine. The dialogue between them was vivid and natural. The action was ACTION. There wasn't anything I didn't like about this book. I gave it 5 stars.
So if weres are your thing, add it to your Goodreads!
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