Here Wolfy. The Wolfman by Jonathan Maberry

[tmwriter70]

I think this was a great book. It really felt like the author made the movie script adaptation his own.  Jonathan Mayberry really did a good job of evoking the emotions that I believe readers should feel when reading horror. I was scared, enthralled and disgusted at various times. We want to feel for the characters, we want to experience their

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Interesting Questions about Gwen

[anonymous]

See, I thought this story would have been so much better if Gwen would have been driving wedges between Ben and Sir John, and then Lawrence and Sir John. She really is but a prop the way the story is now, but how cool would it have been if she was the original werewolf?

You liked this one better than I did. I found the characters passive and conteplative when they should have been taking action. Even if the action failed (gypsies killing Lawrence after he's bitten, Lawrence trying to kill himself after the London rampage, Singh trying to stop Sir John) it would have been better to have them tried versus just thought about/discussed.

Dave J

Re: Interesting Questions about Gwen

[tmwriter70]

That would have been great if Gwen was used in the way you suggest. Too bad she didn't.

[anonymous]

You seem to have liked this one a lot more than I liked it. I do agree with you that Lawrence does deserve our pity. I did feel for him. The discoveries about what his dad is and what really happened to his mom are a lot. Then he is changed into something that he does not want to be and has to deal with that change (and the dad). Now that I think about it, that was probably one of the few things that kept me reading...I wanted to see how he was going to cope with things and what was going to happen.

SLHB

Werewolf versus Wolfman

[alexagrave]

I wish I enjoyed this novel as much as you seemed to. Even though it wasn't as enjoyable for me, I did have an idea about the Werewolf versus Wolfman question you pose at the end. I think by calling Lawrence the Wolfman, it shows that he's still very much connected to the human side of himself - when he is human, he doesn't want to become the beast, and he's even willing to kill himself to stop it from emerging. The use of man in Wolfman makes him less of a monster. Werewolf on the other hand doesn't have any humanity in the word, and that's what happened to Sir John - he had embraced his beast, reveled in it, even when he wasn't in its form, and therefore was no longer human, but a true monster. Just my thoughts.

-Lori

[anonymous]

"Gwen, on the other hand, may have moved a little too quickly onto Lawrence. She may have felt a little personal attachment or guilt because she brought him into the story, but she might have let her vulnerability get the best of her. I didn’t dislike her, but I think she could have been a little more reluctant to move onto Lawrence only a month after her betrothed went missing." I'm glad you brought this up. I thought the novel was slightly better than the movie and was so sad the movie sucked (I saw it the day it came out in the theater). You bring up a valid point that got on my nerves with both stories with Gwen...

However you mentioned that for the time period, Gwen was acting realistically. Sometimes I forget the historical context, even when I'm reading a historical novel. Though there would no doubt be a period of mourning, it was still very much that a young woman needed to be attached to another suitor or face financial ruin/social ruin at soem point. Good call. Didn't even think of it until you mentioned it.

--Kristina