Doing a clean-up of NetGalley and any long-lingering non-feedback titles! Apologies for never getting to read this; don't even think I downloaded it in time. Thanks though!

Thank you for the opportunity to review this book. I am sorry I did not get to read it before the archive date.

Sci fi and fantasy is something I rarely read, I need to be in the right frame of mind and it has to be something amazing to blow my mind. Unfortunately I did not finish this as it did not gel with me.

As soon as I started reading The Last Werewolf I knew I had come across something special. So much so that I went out and bought copies of everything Glen Duncan has ever written, most of which are now quite hard to get hold of. His writing style is overwrought, melodramatic, philosophical and utterly wonderful. I lapped up every single word from the page.

I read it when I was lucky enough to be hidden away in Lake Tahoe, California, a place I think people go to forget the rest of the world exists. I lay by the lake, and instead of breathing in the utter luxury I was surrounded by, this was all I could see, feel, taste. I needed to know what happened to Jake, whether he survives, and what you actually survive for when you are the last of your kind.

The novel explores exactly what you expect it to; loneliness at being the last, sadness at the death of friends, the contemplation of suicide. It's not without a bit of action, but from what I've gathered about his work so far Duncan enjoys to ponder on the more philosophical side of life, which is just fine by me.

I imagine if I met Glen Duncan he would be exactly the voice of his self assured writing and although I loved Jake as a character I couldn't quite read him without the author voice creeping in - which I don't mind at all in this case. I'm a sucker for the book. I haven't read the rest of the series yet but I've no doubt I will over time.

I really liked this book. Lots of twists and turns, and the author has a way of writing that keeps you hooked.

Book was reviewed on my blog a very long time ago. I have migrated blog since then and it is somewhere in archives or completely lost in the ether. (Sad times)