The Last Werewolf

A book that tries to straddle the line between literary fiction and genre fiction, and for the first part of the book, struggles to do so. A magnificent Jane Eyre allusion follow immediately by an inelegant Tennyson reference. The interesting thoughts of a werewolf musing on the meaning of his existence mixed with sentences only a graduate student could love: “All paradigm shifts answer the amoral craving for novelty.”

But eventually, the novel moves more firmly into genre fiction territory, complete with werewolf-vampire showdowns, monogrammed silver javelins, and a wide variety of double crosses. And once the novel begins the move in this direction, it becomes much more readable and much more enjoyable.