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The back of the book gives a detailed plot summary that is so specific you go into the book already knowing the outcome. Having read the book, I would add that if I hadn't already known the outcome, I might not have finished it. Shara's life is one traumatic experience after another up to and after she accepts "the Gift" of becoming a werewolf.

Page one opens where the last chapter ends, so even if you skip the book summary at the back of the book, you know what's going to happen before you read the story.

The setting takes place over the course of Shara's life from age 16 through adulthood, beginning with Shara's senior prom and following her through two marriages. The book is well written and fast-paced enough to keep the pages turning, but I found some of the character motivations a bit unbelievable (i.e. Shara's mother urging her to let her boyfriend sample the milk to keep him happy), but even more unrealistic was Shara's expectation that her first husband would still accept the litter of wolf pups born of a fling with a wolf because they are "half hers". You would think after all she has been through up to that point, she would not be so naive.

I found the setting shifts a bit jarring. After the conclusion of Shara's senior prom, she is suddenly in college, and so forth. I realize the author did this in order to fast-forward the story along, but skipping long chunks of Shara's life in between each subsequent "traumatic experience" she suffers made her hard to empathize with. The reader only gets to see Shara in various stages of emotional distress, which doesn't make her a very well-rounded character. I found myself unsympathetic to her near the end, and at times even unlikable, such as when she re-visits her parents house and murders her mother's small dog for apparently no reason other than to scare them by proving that she is "a werewolf". Her casual acceptable of her second husband's gruesome (and apparently remorseless) tale about a brutal act committed in his past were hard to swallow. I would think a woman who suffered as much as Shara has would have at the very least questioned this story, but instead she blithely accepts is as proof that they have both experienced the hunter's instinct.

As a fan of werewolf novels, I think this is better than many I've read. However, the one-dimensional view of Shara as a "victim" prevents it from being a must-read. When all is said and done, you don't walk away from the book truly caring about the characters, which is what makes a book great.


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Shara Steven E Wedel Kirk Alberts Gord Rollo 9781933274089 Books Reviews

The story begins with a headstrong girl on her prom night and how that night goes horribly wrong...oh, it's not a werewolf attack, but something terrible that plays a key part in her life for years to come and the thing that motivates her enough to want to change, to want to be someone else, to want 'The Gift'. This story follows Shara from that point through the next several years as she deals with being a werewolf and deals with life.

Shara is a passionate story, one that takes you into the mind of a troubled woman and keys the reader in on the instincts of a wolf. To me Shara was far more than a werewolf novel. The characters came to life in a way that drew me in and made me care. As a reader I felt excited about her abilities and horrified by what they represented. In Steven Wedel's book, being a werewolf is far more than becoming a mindless monster who is bloodthirsty for human flesh. It's a combination of two forces, a civiliized human side and a wild animal side and they are usually at war with one another...neither being in comlete control. In human form the wolf is always pulling and wanting to come out, while in wolf form she is still capable of logical thought, but driven by her natural desires for the hunt. There were several twists as I followed Shara along on the path of her life, from shy girl to outgoing woman. The pace of the story, the way Steven Wedel brought Shara into each phase of her life, kept me reading so that I finished this book several days before I thought I would. I just couldn't put it down. I imagine that this one will get several more reads out of me.
Absolutely refreshing! A new spin on one of the oldest subgenres in Horror, Shara is a classic tale in a modern novel that leaves you breathless, desperately hoping 'the pack' has more to tell!

Shara is not your average rip-n-shred weretale. It allows you to support the murderous monster on her quest to become what is most vulnerable to the werewolf in her - something not quite the beast yet more than the human she once was.

Written with such skill and clarity of his characters, you don't even notice Wedel's writing style at all. Completely dimensional characters that you can reach out and touch make the story, and easily pull you into the pages.

It flows gracefully, perfectly, from drama to comedy to horror and back again. The pace is relentless if you want to read before bed and actually get sleep - I read this in one sitting and was late for dinner because I had to finish it!

The story is comfortingly familiar, yet unnervingly unique - you have no idea what could be coming next, and you like it that way! The atmosphere is tightly written close enough to reality to make you pause at the possibilities of superstitions. And fun metaphors [a beast during her monthly cycle] are wonderfully woven to be whatever emotion is necessary at that moment, while the trials and triumphs are literally felt by the reader.

I will flat out tell you the cover doesn't do it justice and the back is slightly misleading...but you will not be disappointed by what you find in between! Rating is definitely a five
If you want a horror story that doesn't make werewolves mindless beasts this is definitely the book for you. It is interesting from cover to cover and will have you flinching and jumping at the shear horror in the story
The back of the book gives a detailed plot summary that is so specific you go into the book already knowing the outcome. Having read the book, I would add that if I hadn't already known the outcome, I might not have finished it. Shara's life is one traumatic experience after another up to and after she accepts "the Gift" of becoming a werewolf.

Page one opens where the last chapter ends, so even if you skip the book summary at the back of the book, you know what's going to happen before you read the story.

The setting takes place over the course of Shara's life from age 16 through adulthood, beginning with Shara's senior prom and following her through two marriages. The book is well written and fast-paced enough to keep the pages turning, but I found some of the character motivations a bit unbelievable (i.e. Shara's mother urging her to let her boyfriend sample the milk to keep him happy), but even more unrealistic was Shara's expectation that her first husband would still accept the litter of wolf pups born of a fling with a wolf because they are "half hers". You would think after all she has been through up to that point, she would not be so naive.

I found the setting shifts a bit jarring. After the conclusion of Shara's senior prom, she is suddenly in college, and so forth. I realize the author did this in order to fast-forward the story along, but skipping long chunks of Shara's life in between each subsequent "traumatic experience" she suffers made her hard to empathize with. The reader only gets to see Shara in various stages of emotional distress, which doesn't make her a very well-rounded character. I found myself unsympathetic to her near the end, and at times even unlikable, such as when she re-visits her parents house and murders her mother's small dog for apparently no reason other than to scare them by proving that she is "a werewolf". Her casual acceptable of her second husband's gruesome (and apparently remorseless) tale about a brutal act committed in his past were hard to swallow. I would think a woman who suffered as much as Shara has would have at the very least questioned this story, but instead she blithely accepts is as proof that they have both experienced the hunter's instinct.

As a fan of werewolf novels, I think this is better than many I've read. However, the one-dimensional view of Shara as a "victim" prevents it from being a must-read. When all is said and done, you don't walk away from the book truly caring about the characters, which is what makes a book great.