{"id":33672,"date":"2014-07-07T12:03:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T16:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=33672"},"modified":"2015-10-11T16:59:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T20:59:28","slug":"the-last-werewolf-trilogy-the-last-werewolf-talulla-rising-by-blood-we-live-by-glen-duncan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-last-werewolf-trilogy-the-last-werewolf-talulla-rising-by-blood-we-live-by-glen-duncan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Werewolf Trilogy: The Last Werewolf, Talulla Rising, By Blood We Live by Glen Duncan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Last<\/a>In a roundabout way I can’t quite recall, I ended up at this 2007 New York Times<\/em> article, “Young Man Behaving Badly<\/a>,” and learned that bestselling author Glen Duncan is\u00a0hapa British Asian. I found his latest title,\u00a0By Blood We Live,<\/em>\u00a0magically waiting on my shelves, only to realize it’s the last of a trilogy about werewolves and vampires, oh my. Although far from my usual comfort zone, I stuck the first third,\u00a0The Last Werewolf<\/em>, in my ears and quickly ticked off many miles \u2013 and, of course,\u00a0I couldn’t stop. My greatest\u00a0complaint (again) is beyond the author’s control: how hard could it have been for producers to cast the same\u00a0narrators for the overlapping sections of a\u00a0mere three-part series? Talk about teeth-grindingly jarring clicking from one book to another, alas.<\/p>\n

While Duncan’s cast is pretty much international (albeit more Western than not), his hapa Indian heritage occasionally makes quick, almost imperceptible\u00a0appearances. Kurtas are mentioned in passing as part of someone’s wardrobe, instances of racism are off-handedly remarked upon along the lines of, “We’re like those racists who exempt their favourite Indian waiter: No, not\u00a0you<\/em>, Raj.\u00a0You’re<\/em> all right.” Blink, and you might miss them …<\/p>\n

Ah, but what of this trilogy? Yes, it’s expectedly monstrous and horrifying \u2013 some of the kill scenes are absolutely stomach-churning. But beyond the guts and gore, Duncan’s erudite, literary, satirical, droll\u00a0imagination\u00a0is constantly urging you on to the next page: “Reading a book is a dangerous thing<\/i>,”\u00a0a character warns. True that.<\/p>\n

The Last Werewolf<\/em> is exactly as the title implies. Jacob Marlowe (sly nods to Jacob Marley<\/a>, Christopher Marlowe<\/a>?) has had too much of\u00a0just about everything<\/em> in his 200 years. He’s endured the first\u00a0half of his unnatural life, but he doesn’t have much he looks forward to, stuck in a malaise of monthly huntings and being hunted by WOCOP, that is the World Organization for the\u00a0Control of Occult Phenomena. He’s watched everyone he cares for die, not to mention he’s the last of his kind. Or at least he thought he was … until he gets a whiff of Talulla Mary Apollonia Demetriou, who jolts\u00a0him out of his ennui and gives him a reason to live.<\/p>\n

Too soon after their meeting, Tallula is on the run in\u00a0Tallula Rising<\/em>. She’s miraculously pregnant, although\u00a0werewolves aren’t supposed to be privy to reproduction. But\u00a0even in a\u00a0remote corner of Alaska, she isn’t\u00a0safe. She gives birth to her son, only to lose him minutes later when he’s kidnapped by a horde of vampires who swoop in and then are gone … leaving her\u00a0to bring her daughter into the world.\u00a0We’re barely 50 pages in, giving Talulla 300-plus more to reclaim her family. Motherhood \u2013 even for a self-described “dead-hearted b**ch who didn’t love her babies” \u2013 was never quite this hairy (couldn’t resist).<\/p>\n

In the finale, By Blood We Live<\/em>,\u00a0which debuted earlier this year, the original ‘last’ has become so many that the Vatican has gotten involved \u2013 as vicious hunters: “Rome is secretly training an army of warriors to destroy [werewolves and vampires].” Talulla’s family\u00a0\u2013 by blood, and otherwise\u00a0\u2013 too, has decidedly grown … which means,\u00a0so have her worries and challenges. As if staying safe wasn’t enough, she’s being watched\/visited\/haunted\/stalked by a 20,000-year-old being. Talk about incompatibility: the only thing they have in common\u00a0might<\/em> be a very, very remote past. Some things are timeless, right?<\/p>\n

The body count blurs, the gore rarely pauses, the attachments have to be fleeting, the sex is (literally) out of this world … and yet the chuckles are frequent, even in the direst\u00a0moments. Monsters abound, but these grim fairy tales\u00a0are an\u00a0adrenaline injection from which you won’t want to recover.<\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2011, 2012, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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