Whitley Strieber

Classed as YA but a very grim book of the aftermath of nuclear war, with nuclear winter and a mother and child having to be 'adopted' by a wolf pack to have any chance of survival with even the animals being picked off gradually. Very sad.

I understand this has a special place among many horror fans and it does have a unique spin on werewolves, including chapters from their perspective, but awfully clunky writing and police procedural clichés had me scratching my head a lot at illogical sequence of events, which is a problem when the novel wants to lean realistic and plausible.

Wish I could give 3.5. I enjoyed the style, the stories, and the theories presented. The way it was organized was a bit difficult for me to follow and I feel like I was missing some of the meaning. This might be why I never got fully sucked in.

Estamos siendo perseguidos por algo que tiene garras. Ellos existen, no lo olviden. Han existido por miles de años. Nosotros, señores, los hemos visto. Y son horribles. También son muy veloces y muy, muy inteligentes. La gente antiguamente los llamaba licántropos. Ahora nadie los llama de ninguna manera, pues han desarrollado una gran habilidad para borrar las huellas de su paso. Y por lo tanto ni siquiera hay una leyenda. Pero ellos están aquí. No les quepa ninguna duda que están."