Prowlers

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Summary: The first book in a thrilling new series.
Review: Jack Dwyer lost his mother in a car accident when he was just ten. Nine years later, Jack and his older sister Courtney run Bridget's, an Irish pub and restaurant in Boston. When Jack's best friend Artie is brutally murdered, he is devastated, as is Artie's girlfriend, Molly. But soon, Jack and Molly begin to suspect there was more to Artie's death that simple murder. When Jack is visited by Artie's ghost, he discovers that his best friend's killers were the Prowlers, an ancient race of beats that can make themselves appear human. And to make matters worse, the Prowlers have marked Jack and Molly as their next prey - for no human can discover the truth and live. Now they are fleeing for their lives, and must take one last, desperate chance. The odds are against them. But Jack and Molly are determined to survive. This book started off a thrilling new horror series for teens. I highly reccomend this new series.

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Summary: ...
Review: Jack Dwyer runs a bar in Boston with his sister Courtney and is having a pretty good life. However, the morning after a date, Jack wakes up to find out that his best friend Archie was murdered. Later, as if things weren't bad enough, Artie's ghost appears from a place called the ghostlands to warn Jack about the things caused Artie's death: the Prowlers. The Prowlers are wolflike creatures that are able to masquerade as humans and have been living since before mankind appeared. When Jack sees the damage the Prowlers can cause first hand, he wants revenge. Jack has decided to hunt the Prowlers, but with bold leader Owen Tanzer, things won't be easy. Unfortunately, the Prowlers know where Jack lives, and they want to hunt. However, when a group of Prowlers attacks the bar, Jack's world goes even more out of wack... Prowlers is a great book and one that I definitely recommend reading.

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Summary: They're real, They're here, and They'll find you............
Review: Prowlers is a page-turning book of discovery by Christopher Golden. It is a wonderful book. The genre of it is fantasy. I am not a big fantasy person but this was a good book. I would recommend it for young adults that like a book with supernatural beings. It does get a little gory sometimes but it is not too bad.
Jack Dwyer is the main character of this book. He, along with his sister Courtney, run Bridget's Irish Pub in Boston. Their mother, Bridget, died nine years ago in a car crash. As I said this story is set in Boston, which is a good place for the book to be set in. For story purposes it is large and for audience purposes people can recognize the city. It makes this story more believable.
In the story Jacks best friend Artie and his one time girlfriend Kate, are killed. Jack and Molly, Arties serious girlfriend, are devastated. They are left to deal with the pain. It seems to them that they will never get over their friends' deaths. But then Arties ghost, who wanders the Ghostlands, visits Jack. He tells Jack that he wasn't murdered by something human. He was killed by monsters, Prowlers, who masquerade as humans. They hide out in large cities and kill people until they are almost revealed and then move on. Jack wants revenge and he decides that he is going to get it. He teams up with Molly to get back and destroy these monsters. But you never know who is a prowler and who isn't.
The characters are very finely drawn in this book. They defiantly develop as the story goes on. They change and grow in ways they didn't think were possible. But what captivated me was Goldens' writing style. I was in suspense the whole book. I couldn't put this book down. I really liked how he started off the book. I was pulled into the story by the first line.
There is really no moral to the story and this book is defiantly different from his others. I think he needed a change of style. Which is good because he keeps his fans guessing. The one thing he could have done better is describing the lesser characters. They don't seem as real at the main characters do. But all in all, this book is one of my favorites. I plan to read the sequel, and there is defiantly room for a sequel and series for this story.

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Summary: They Have Your Scent...
Review: Prowlers is another amazing book by Christopher Golden, author of the Shadow Saga, Straight on Till Morning, and numerous comic books, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Golden's Evil Creature this time are the Prowlers, a race of savage beasts who have been around long before humans. Over time, they evolved, and developed the ability to shift into a human form. They walk among us, moving from city to city to prey on humanity. They kill, eat, and leave the person's soul to wonder the Ghostlands, never being able to rest until their deaths have been avenged.

Jack Dwyer finds his life forever changed after the Prowlers move to his hometown of Boston. Along with his friends and sister, he discovers what the Prowlers are, and a little something about himself: he can see into the Ghostlands, and talk with the dead.

The Prowler Series is a hard set of books to set down -- I've been eating them up (pun intended). I don't know how he does it, but Golden seems to never be at a loss for newer, scary Evil Things. From the Scare Crow in Halloween Rain, the Hunt in Child of the Hunt (which scared me silly), to the twisted tale of lost boys in Straight On Till Morning, Golden is always creating terrifying evil. The Prowlers are some of the deadliest yet. Another bit of Golden's story telling that I enjoy is the way he introduces his characters, gives them all a personality and depth, and then kills them. He works at it slowly, revealing more about his cast as the books proceed.

If you're a fan of Buffy, Steven King, or just scary monsters, you'll want to grab Prowlers and give it a read.

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Summary: Good Growls
Review: Prowlers is positively riveting and inventive. I am very glad that it is the first in a new series, because even before the book was through, I was captivated by the villains, connected to the protagonists, and yearning to go on the prowl again.

At age nineteen, Jack Dwyer's best friend Artie is murdered. Not by humans, but by Prowlers, a group of ancient creatures whose handiwork is typically thought to be that of wolves.

But these are no wolves. They are animals, but their ability to think, their emotions and their need for revenge makes them as cunning as humans. Jack, as well as most of America, knows nothing of the Prowlers... That is, until Artie travels from the Ghostlands to tell his friend what truly happened.

The leader of the pack, Owen Tanzer, is determined to unite the Prowlers and make humans feel their power. Tanzer's right hand gal, Jasmine, is also something to contend with. It is as if Golden took Exotica from "Cats" and made her real, feral and evil. With her cocoa skin and orange eyes, Jasmine always goes the whole nine (lives?) yards.

Aside from Jack, my other favorite "good guy" is Molly. She embodies the 'final girl' syndrome from horror films: she must kill to survive. Golden always treats his female
characters well, making them unique, strong individuals.

One of my favorite scenes occurs in a subway scene and involves jumping over turnstiles, fighting between cars, and a police cover-up. In other words, thoroughly modern Hitchcock.

The entire book flows wonderfully, pulsing along with the reader's heartbeat, causing them to inhale and exhale sharply with the protagonists, run with them, follow them through Boston, and come to conclusions both unexpected and life-altering.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book was great and Chris is an amazing author. I'm hoping it becomes a series.