The Wolf Gift

The Wolf Gift
by Anne Rice

The time is the present.

The place, the rugged coast of northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood forest.

A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisco Observer. . . an older woman, welcoming him into her magnificent, historic family home that he has been sent to write about and that she must sell with some urgency . . . A chance encounter between two unlikely people . . . an idyllic night—shattered by horrific unimaginable violence. . .The young man inexplicably attacked—bitten—by a beast he cannot see in the rural darkness . . . A violent episode that sets in motion a terrifying yet seductive transformation as the young man, caught between ecstasy and horror, between embracing who he is evolving into and fearing who—what—he will become, soon experiences the thrill of the wolf gift.

As he resists the paradoxical pleasure and enthrallment of his wolfen savagery and delights in the power and (surprising) capacity for good, he is caught up in a strange and dangerous rescue and is desperately hunted as “the Man Wolf,” by authorities, the media and scientists (evidence of DNA threaten to reveal his dual existence). . . As a new and profound love enfolds him, questions emerge that propel him deeper into his mysterious new world: questions of why and how he has been given this gift; of its true nature and the curious but satisfying pull towards goodness; of the profound realization that there are others like him who may be watching—guardian creatures who have existed throughout time and may possess ancient secrets and alchemical knowledge and throughout it all, the search for salvation for a soul tormented by a new realm of temptations, and the fraught, exhilarating journey, still to come, of being and becoming, fully, both wolf and man.

I've been a fan of Anne Rice's writing since I read Interview with the Vampire. I read so many of her books. I didn't read the ones where she was going through her christian phase (about this life of Jesus) but I have read most of the others.

I hope that this is just the first book of a series. I think that this would make a really good series. I would love to see it go on. See what happens to the characters.

I love her new take on Werewolves.

It has been debated if Anne Rice is now an atheist. I am friends with her on facebook and something she posted on there seems to point to that she might be. The story told by Margon (of the beginning of the Morphenkind) in this book tends to give voice to atheism also.

I finished this book in 2 days. I am hoping there will be a book two.

Go out and read it and tell me what you think.