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Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
Dec. 30th, 2013 11:07 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
They live among us.
They are your neighbour, your mother, your lover.
You think they are safe.
They change.
Every teenage girl thinks she’s different. When government agents kick down Claire Forrester’s front door and murder her parents, Claire realises just how different she is.
Patrick Gamble was nothing special until the day he got on a plane and, hours later, stepped off it, the only passenger left alive. A hero.
President Chase Williams has sworn to eradicate the menace. Unknown to the electorate, however, he is becoming the very thing he has sworn to destroy.
Each of them is caught up in a war that has so far been controlled with laws and violence and drugs. But an uprising is about to leave them damaged, lost, and tied to one another for ever.
The night of the red moon is coming, when an unrecognisable world will emerge, and the battle for humanity will begin.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Benjamin Percy’s werewolf horror novel is a heavy metaphorical attack on US foreign policy that does little new with the genre. The characters all develop in predictable ways according to the plot and it’s depressing that the one truly strong female character goes through the obligatory rape and sexual abuse cycle. Balor’s motives are never fully explored and given the final twist, I was left wondering what the point of his attacks was. I was similarly dissatisfied with the ending of a couple of the plot strands. Ultimately it’s an okay read but the idea of lycanism as infection has been done to death and there’s nothing new here to grab hold of. I’d read Percy’s other books but I wouldn’t rush to check out a sequel to this one.
RED MOON was released in the United Kingdom on 8th May 2013. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the free copy of this book.
They are your neighbour, your mother, your lover.
You think they are safe.
They change.
Every teenage girl thinks she’s different. When government agents kick down Claire Forrester’s front door and murder her parents, Claire realises just how different she is.
Patrick Gamble was nothing special until the day he got on a plane and, hours later, stepped off it, the only passenger left alive. A hero.
President Chase Williams has sworn to eradicate the menace. Unknown to the electorate, however, he is becoming the very thing he has sworn to destroy.
Each of them is caught up in a war that has so far been controlled with laws and violence and drugs. But an uprising is about to leave them damaged, lost, and tied to one another for ever.
The night of the red moon is coming, when an unrecognisable world will emerge, and the battle for humanity will begin.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Benjamin Percy’s werewolf horror novel is a heavy metaphorical attack on US foreign policy that does little new with the genre. The characters all develop in predictable ways according to the plot and it’s depressing that the one truly strong female character goes through the obligatory rape and sexual abuse cycle. Balor’s motives are never fully explored and given the final twist, I was left wondering what the point of his attacks was. I was similarly dissatisfied with the ending of a couple of the plot strands. Ultimately it’s an okay read but the idea of lycanism as infection has been done to death and there’s nothing new here to grab hold of. I’d read Percy’s other books but I wouldn’t rush to check out a sequel to this one.
RED MOON was released in the United Kingdom on 8th May 2013. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the free copy of this book.
