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Picture you're riding the bus home from work, with the very first newspaper article every published under your byline clutched in your hot little hand, when a coked-up idiot attempts to hold up everyone on the bus. He takes a dislike to you and is about to slice you open when a large, gorgeously hairy man attacks him and saves your life. Only your rescuer is not a man, but a giant wolf who leaves a bloody pawprint on your newspaper, all over your precious byline . . .
If you're an intrepid reporter, you don't panic. You run for the newsroom to get a photo of the pawprint before it disappears . . . because the paper you work for thrives on stories of alien invasions and Elvis sightings and Bigfoot's baby, and this, unlike all of those stories, this is real.
Of course, it's not that simple. The highly civilized Denver werewolves don't want anyone to know of their existence, not even beautiful young reporters who make Lucas, the leader of the pack, think lustful thoughts. But Lucas and his pack have a much bigger problem to deal there's another were-pack hunting in their territory--and being messy about it. If the police solve any of those brutal, apparently random, murders, Denver's more patrician lycanthropes may wind up in big trouble.
If you're an intrepid reporter, you don't panic. You run for the newsroom to get a photo of the pawprint before it disappears . . . because the paper you work for thrives on stories of alien invasions and Elvis sightings and Bigfoot's baby, and this, unlike all of those stories, this is real.
Of course, it's not that simple. The highly civilized Denver werewolves don't want anyone to know of their existence, not even beautiful young reporters who make Lucas, the leader of the pack, think lustful thoughts. But Lucas and his pack have a much bigger problem to deal there's another were-pack hunting in their territory--and being messy about it. If the police solve any of those brutal, apparently random, murders, Denver's more patrician lycanthropes may wind up in big trouble.
304 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 1, 2000
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P.D. Cacek
65Ìýbooks29ÌýfollowersOccasionally credited as Patricia D. Cacek.
Patricia Diana Joy Anne Cacek (December 22, 1951, Hollywood, California) is an American author, mostly of horror novels. She graduated with a B.A in Creative Writing from California State University, Long Beach in 1975.
Patricia Diana Joy Anne Cacek (December 22, 1951, Hollywood, California) is an American author, mostly of horror novels. She graduated with a B.A in Creative Writing from California State University, Long Beach in 1975.
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March 22, 2018
I despised this book despite it being hard to put down and starting off on a semi-promising foot. This book keeps dipping into different genre pools so much that I can't figure out what it's trying to be. Sometimes horror, sometimes paranormal romance, ending horror, it's just odd.
It would have been a three star rating if not for that killer ending that gutted the rest of my enjoyment out. What a douchebag the main male character ended up being, and it made a lot of the storyline no longer make sense. Plus the mating with all in the pack including the daughters when they come to a certain age? Uber ick.
The sarcastic female lead is sort of fun and probably the best part of the story, but her storyline ends up so unfair and trapped it leaves me irritated at the end. Humor works only until a point to where I get pissed off instead. It’s nifty to have dark twists at the end IF they work, but in this case it clearly didn’t for me.
If you’re a horror fan this one is brutal with dark humor, but I think the level of romance may be a turn off if that’s not your bag. On the other hand, if you’re a romance or PNR fan you will want to veer away from this one due to the second half crushing the heart of any potential bondings. Yech.
Of course the biggest issues with this (horror?) novel is the abuse with the children later as well as the bizarre werewolf incest. The author certainly doesn’t shy away from villain cruelty.
If I had to say something positive, it’d be that at least the characters are relatively well-fleshed out, even if they aren’t likable�.which brings me to another problem. Why did the author spend so much time trying to convince the reader a semi-unrealistic bond exists in the first place, to throw it away as pointless later anyway and take away all the story development between the two?
There’s horror, but then there’s stories that detail sexual violence toward children horror, and nope � doesn’t work for me.
It would have been a three star rating if not for that killer ending that gutted the rest of my enjoyment out. What a douchebag the main male character ended up being, and it made a lot of the storyline no longer make sense. Plus the mating with all in the pack including the daughters when they come to a certain age? Uber ick.
The sarcastic female lead is sort of fun and probably the best part of the story, but her storyline ends up so unfair and trapped it leaves me irritated at the end. Humor works only until a point to where I get pissed off instead. It’s nifty to have dark twists at the end IF they work, but in this case it clearly didn’t for me.
If you’re a horror fan this one is brutal with dark humor, but I think the level of romance may be a turn off if that’s not your bag. On the other hand, if you’re a romance or PNR fan you will want to veer away from this one due to the second half crushing the heart of any potential bondings. Yech.
Of course the biggest issues with this (horror?) novel is the abuse with the children later as well as the bizarre werewolf incest. The author certainly doesn’t shy away from villain cruelty.
If I had to say something positive, it’d be that at least the characters are relatively well-fleshed out, even if they aren’t likable�.which brings me to another problem. Why did the author spend so much time trying to convince the reader a semi-unrealistic bond exists in the first place, to throw it away as pointless later anyway and take away all the story development between the two?
There’s horror, but then there’s stories that detail sexual violence toward children horror, and nope � doesn’t work for me.
November 5, 2024
Darken the city, night is a wire. this is a terrible book in almost every way.
Steam in the subway, earth is afire. and yet it is very very readable in its terrible terrible way.
Woman, you want me, give me a sign. an idiot tabloid reporter falls for the idiot scion of a werewolf clan but an atrocious wereman and his own pack get in the way.
And catch my breathing even closer behind. lots of blood and guts and gore and rape and mutilation and I guess all of that is pretty standard for a werewolf novel.
In touch with the ground. the reporter is constantly thinking of tabloid headlines for every twist and turn of the plot and it becomes super fucking annoying having to read those headlines in every other paragraph.
I'm on the hunt, I'm after you. the story itself is so random and overstuffed and it definitely kept me wondering what was coming next, another plot twist or another atrocity.
Smell like I sound, I'm lost in a crowd. have to admit, i was surprised at the identity of the wereman, you got me there author, and i was also surprised at the complex incest taking place in the hero's werewolf family, that was hard to wrap my mind around, like double layers of incest
And I'm hungry like the wolf. but really this book is trash, the writing is incredibly bad, also is this supposed to be a horror comedy, I mean there are just so many dumb jokes
Straddle the line in discord and rhyme. so why did i keep reading?
I'm on the hunt, I'm after you. so why did i keep reading?
Mouth is alive, with juices like wine. so why did i keep reading?
And I'm hungry like the wolf. i also learned that werewolf dick apparently tastes like salt & vinegar & musk & raw meat, which is important info to know if you plan on giving a werewolf a bj
Steam in the subway, earth is afire. and yet it is very very readable in its terrible terrible way.
Woman, you want me, give me a sign. an idiot tabloid reporter falls for the idiot scion of a werewolf clan but an atrocious wereman and his own pack get in the way.
And catch my breathing even closer behind. lots of blood and guts and gore and rape and mutilation and I guess all of that is pretty standard for a werewolf novel.
In touch with the ground. the reporter is constantly thinking of tabloid headlines for every twist and turn of the plot and it becomes super fucking annoying having to read those headlines in every other paragraph.
I'm on the hunt, I'm after you. the story itself is so random and overstuffed and it definitely kept me wondering what was coming next, another plot twist or another atrocity.
Smell like I sound, I'm lost in a crowd. have to admit, i was surprised at the identity of the wereman, you got me there author, and i was also surprised at the complex incest taking place in the hero's werewolf family, that was hard to wrap my mind around, like double layers of incest
And I'm hungry like the wolf. but really this book is trash, the writing is incredibly bad, also is this supposed to be a horror comedy, I mean there are just so many dumb jokes
Straddle the line in discord and rhyme. so why did i keep reading?
I'm on the hunt, I'm after you. so why did i keep reading?
Mouth is alive, with juices like wine. so why did i keep reading?
And I'm hungry like the wolf. i also learned that werewolf dick apparently tastes like salt & vinegar & musk & raw meat, which is important info to know if you plan on giving a werewolf a bj
August 6, 2019
It was not as bad as a lot of reviewers said it was.It had action ,but not -so- intelligent cops trying to catch a guy who is a werewolf and murderer. The ending left room for a sequel,but who wants to read more of that.It did have a sex scene that made me cheer for the werewolf( that's just me) It was not the worse book I've read and I have read all four Twilight books.
September 3, 2024
Definitely not for the squeamish, faint of heart, or those enmeshed with political correctness. There's enough blood splattered around in this one to supply half a dozen blood drives. A most interesting read.
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October 28, 2020DNF
July 27, 2011
If I could I'd give this book an extra half star rating but I'll leave it at 3. This is one of the better books I've read but I wouldn't classify it as horror- it's more of a dark fantasy. There is everything I love in this book- guts and gore, cynical and sarcastic female lead, and good werewolf lore.
My only dislikes are the ending of the book- it just ends (?)- and I felt for all the information Cacek crammed in to the book she could have drug it out a bit and cued us in a few more of the finer points of her wolf lore. A definite for people who would like to read a werewolf novel before the Urban Fantasy craze.
My only dislikes are the ending of the book- it just ends (?)- and I felt for all the information Cacek crammed in to the book she could have drug it out a bit and cued us in a few more of the finer points of her wolf lore. A definite for people who would like to read a werewolf novel before the Urban Fantasy craze.
March 17, 2015
this book was amazing the way the werewolves were described in it was great very horror related with some romance and but didnt overturn the horror in the book itself i would recommend any werewolf fans that love the blood and gore to read this book
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October 7, 2009
crazy book, one of my all time favorites
January 20, 2011
I read this almost a decade ago and I decided to reread it again. It is one of the better werewolf novels I thought, with believable characters and plot.
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