Full Wolf Moon

Utter crap, can’t believe how bad this was! How could this be the same author as Deep Storm? Everything I have liked about this author’s past books was missing. Even the length is more like a novella. I really don’t understand how this could happen. Avoid this book at all costs unless it’s free, then read it just to see for yourself. Completely predictable, boring setting, by-the-numbers plotting, clichd elements, stupid dialogue. There is no way this should have gotten past an editor. It’s a head scratcher. I have never considered this with any other book, but I want my money back.

I am giving five stars because if using a checklist of great characters, great storyline, plot with twists, holds your interest, likeable chatacters, believable, ….I can keep writing yes yes without telling you the story …which when I review a book I do so try not to be a spoiler…I hate spoilers. BUT IT GETS A BIG YEAH BECAUSE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GENETIC RESEARCH WORLD NOW.

I have read Lincoln Child books for years…so if you have you are some what prepared for the reading ride. I like the timing and chair he puts you in allows you to settle in, forget the outside world, allow what is happening to become alive and intriguing. In this book he uses the trappings of two modified real medical conditions, certain scietific facts, and puts them all in a DNA sequencer to make a new breakfast power drink (joke).

The reason of plausibility goes with my peanut butter sandwich and coffee is that I am also familiar with a rare genetic disease that geneticists have been trying since the 1980s to find a cure. Lots of animals and a person died in clinical trials. While other volunteers have gotten sick when other ideas to alter DNA, RNA, or MtNA may have become ill and trials were willingly or forced to end. They thought this disorder would be easy to fix. It would be stepping stone in ideas for others.

So all around your private lives where ads bombard you to use stem cells to fix your joints…do you really think about the long term consequences and what actually goes on in the back room of the lab. I am sure most are honest so they keep their license. But there are always those who must cross frontier lines in order to save lives. Without this there would
have been no vaccines for polio, syphillis, typhoid, measles, some cancers and onward we march.

This is why I could sit and believe this story possible. I have not personally seen lab failures but they occur. But right now outside the US there are doctors swearing they are near or have done head transplants. That scares the bejeezers out of me.

I have not read any of the Jeremy Logan series but I will say this to scare you and me…could something like this happen if there were not bioethical committies around the world? Well they must know something that Childs eludes to….several of the largest groups (just recently) have approached their governments for a group moritorium (sp) in regards to certain types of genetic modifications…because more studies need to be done to understand what can happen without the correct full circle and ethical planning. I have not seen a published response—am sure this is such a hot potato.

Lincoln Child’s fact and fiction tossed salad, makes you think, causes you to ask do you really know what is going on when you keep asking for cures, at the end Childs maybe helps give weight to the scientists requests if there are problems we don’t know about..about bacteria, viruses, and genetic modifications to food and our body modifications. Did Mr. Childs have foresight into what the scientists are asking for the brakes to be put on? If so this book is really really scarey. Ask yourself after reading this book if you sold your DNA to a company that is selling it out the back door…what are you creating?

I have read every book written by Lincoln Child (as well as those co-authored with Douglas Preston) and been a fan for the last 20+ years. I especially enjoy those in the Jeremy Logan series and eagerly await them once announced. In spite of some critical reviews for this one, I read to be entertained and that is what this book did for me. While Im not into books with a werewolf theme, Ill term this a semi-werewolf one, so I was not distracted. I was immediately immersed into the story with each chapter pulling me to the next. Its written in a fast paced yet relaxed style and akin to sleuthing a mystery to its conclusion. I finished the book over a 2 day period. Whatever Lincoln Child (or with his partner) writes next, Ill gladly read without hesitation.

Let me add the good news first. The book is well written and the characters were interesting and we spent some time getting to know them. The book moved at a steady pace and we had upstate New York described in some details and especially the mountains and deep woods. That is all positive. To me the weakness was that a little bit past the middle of the book it became very apparent who the villain was.It was just clear as a bell.

Now I thought “maybe he is tricking us, there are two other characters that could be the villain. Maybe he is leading us down a primrose path and will give us a twist at the ending.” But no, there was no last moment twist where you could say “I didn’t see that coming.”

So, I enjoyed the book, and if you do not read a lot of mysteries perhaps the ending won’t be so apparent to you. I read them all the time and this one had no surprises.

I was very disappointed in this book because I love the author and his other books. It was slow reading and the climax took forever to build. I cannot recommend this book to others unless you have no other books to read. If that’s the case, take a walk outside.

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