Shapes

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Summary: Awesome
Review: I loved the Hyde Effect, as a horrific, violent and scary suspense-filled novel. The follow up, Shapes was an expanded, more fantastically dreamed up world which added a whole new twist to it's lycanthropic predecessor. I, too have anxiously awaited the third installment of this story.

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Summary: Very interesting 'sequel' that stands on its own
Review: I read this novel knowing nothing about the author, and was in fact surprised to see it was a sequel to another of his books. I think I'll have to try and track that one down now because 'Shapes' offered some real interesting twists to the werewolf legend. From reading those reviews of 'The Hyde Effect,' it looks like this sequel is an expansion on the basic themes of the first book. We are introduced to several characters, some of whom witnessed the events of the first novel. Now the focus becomes an expansion of the basic werewolf myth, where the characters discover there's a heck of a lot more to it and it will directly affect their own lives. Hard to say more without spoiling it, except to add that it's made clear early on that there is an organzied society of beings with the basic werewolf abilities and much more. I think I'd label this book horror fantasy, as it really sets up an interesting world outside what we understand. A weakness of the novel involves the main human characters and the choice each must eventually make. There are moral and religious questions that each really should have contemplated more fully. I could spend a while talking about that with other people who have read the book! Very thought provoking, and it deserved closer analysis. Beyond that, Steve Vance's reinvention of the werewolf myth is fascinating. Recommended!

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Summary: ShapeShifters at thier best!
Review: Steve Vance does an awsome job of humanizing a totally inhuman condition. By the time you have finished this book you you will want to be a full blown shape Sifter yourself. It's slightly reminisant of "Cabal" By Clive Barker where the monsters are the good guys! It truly is one of the better books on the subject. Although, I first read it back in about '92. I still have my origonal copy and I pull it out to re-read every few years just for the pure excitment of being a werewolf in a little part of my mind for a day or two!! You will really enjoy this one!

Rating:
Summary: ShapeShifters at thier best!
Review: Steve Vance does an awsome job of humanizing a totally inhuman condition. By the time you have finished this book you you will want to be a full blown shape Sifter yourself. It's slightly reminisant of "Cabal" By Clive Barker where the monsters are the good guys! It truly is one of the better books on the subject. Although, I first read it back in about '92. I still have my origonal copy and I pull it out to re-read every few years just for the pure excitment of being a werewolf in a little part of my mind for a day or two!! You will really enjoy this one!

Rating:
Summary: Awesome
Review: This book shed a different if not humane light on the werewolf legend. I have read it twice and still couldn't put it down.