Moondog

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Summary: Pleasant read but first half is very slow
Review: This author writes well but the first half is really slow. The good side of this is the character development but the bad side is that nothing happens and I think some readers will probably bail out before getting to the end. If you are not an "action" junky or expecting a horror novel, and you enjoy character related mystery novels with good portraits of local people, then you will like this one.

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Summary: Genre enlivened by a great sense of place and character
Review: This novel is what genre fiction should offer -- a plot with all the color and energy its subject matter (werewolves) allows, but anchored by a detailed, realistic character and his friends and community. "Moondog" has one of the most viscerally appealing portraits one might find of working class northern Californians; it's a gritty character book and slice of Americana -- and a page-turner, too.