The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice

• All Critics: 28
• Positive: 13
• Negative: 15

• USA Today | 15 Feb 2012

  the book bogs down in aimless plotting, sluggish pace and a tendency to philosophize when it ought to be building suspense.

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• Los Angeles Times | 1 Mar 2012

  Rice does finally hit her unique, imaginative stride very late, but it will be a long wait for readers. For some, in fact, it will be much too long to wait.

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• Pajiba

  Anne Rice created a wholly readable and enjoyable new book that will likely be a series of books... she is still a captivating storyteller, capable of maturity and spinning a great yarn.

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• AV Club | 15 Feb 2012

  The Wolf Gift, Rice attempts to bring the same vitality to a new monster, but the book features little bark, and no bite.

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• Dallas News | 24 Feb 2012

  Wolf Gift gets bogged down in its final third by lengthy discourses into origin theory and lycanthrope mythology.

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• Boston.com | 23 Feb 2012

  The plot in which all this unfolds is magnetic, the characters fascinating, and Rice’s style as solid and engaging as anything she has written since her early vampire chronicle fiction.

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• Denver Post | 4 Mar 2012

  Rice seems to have forgotten that readers don't want werewolves with good taste; they want werewolves who think humans taste good.

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• San Francisco Chronicle | 26 Feb 2012

  In Rice's hands, "The Wolf Gift" evolves from a fantastical romp into an engrossing thriller by its second half.

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• Look At OKC | 22 Apr 2012

  near the middle of the book it seems to bog down a little as she becomes more esoteric and questioning about philosophical topics.

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• The Literary Life of the Well-Read Wife | 2 Feb 2012

  I was blown away by The Wolf Gift. It is one of the best horror novels I have read in ages, and I recommend it wholeheartedly to anyone who is a fan of the genre.

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• Lit Reactor | 15 Feb 2012

  the pacing is unexpected and somewhat disconcerting.

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• Kirkus Reviews | 23 Jan 2012

  Despite some of the creakiness of the machinery, Rice finds new permutations in an old tale.

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• The Star | 18 Feb 2012

  a delightfully bad book, but make no mistake: it is bad. Very, very bad. Indeed there were times reading it when I thought it must deserve consideration as the worst novel ever written.

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• My Shelf Confessions | 27 Mar 2012

  I don’t think The Wolf Gift is your average paranormal fantasy, there’s a definite depth. I consider it paranormal literature.

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• The Globe and Mail | 19 Feb 2012

  It is wit-filled, languid and vibrant, brainy and snarling. It will leave open-minded readers howling for more.

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• Girls in the Stacks

  Good enough story but not as gripping as I’d hoped... Just a little too out of touch for me.

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• That's What She Read | 7 Mar 2012

  lush and vivid descriptions, pulse-pounding pacing, and intricate cast of characters. Fans everywhere will welcome the Queen of Goth’s refreshingly frank take on yet another well-known monster.

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• State Journal-Register | 13 Apr 2012

  I have not been able to put down. It would appear that her fascination with God-made-man... has given her even greater depth in an analysis of Man-made-beast

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• Publishers Weekly | 20 Feb 2012

  Rice's classic concerns regarding good and evil and shifting views of reality play out wonderfully in what will surely please fans and newcomers alike.

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• Bibliosaurustext | 23 Feb 2012

  I was gravely disappointed in this book and struggled to finish it. The ending is anti-climatic, so even that let me down.

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• My Four Bucks Blog | 20 Mar 2012

  What I like most... is the sense of history she invokes...and the way in which they endure over the centuries and the history they witness... the novel finished at the most thrilling and exciting part... and I was desperate to learn more and continue reading.

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• The Agony Column | 25 Feb 2012

  Anne Rice offers readers the gift of literature... Rice's writing reminds us of the power of prose as a special effect, that words can transform not just the thoughts and lives of characters, but those of readers as well.

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• Ron Reads | 5 Mar 2012

  a remarkable return to form. And for longtime Anne Rice fans such as myself, that is certainly a welcome development.

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• Opinions of a Wolf Blog | 18 Feb 2012

  this was an incredibly irritating and frustrating read that I disliked so much I’m not even going to do my usual of passing on my reviewer’s copy... This one is going in the recycling bin.

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• The Washington Times | 27 Apr 2012

  “The Wolf Gift,” combines lust for blood... Christian theology, European fairytales and American comics in a truly absurd plot.

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• Wired | 12 Feb 2012

  If you are a fan of Anne Rice’s earlier work and have been longing for more of her wonderfully detailed supernatural stories, then pick up a copy of The Wolf Gift... and immerse yourself in a delicious new world.

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• NYX Book Reviews | 22 Feb 2012

  In my humble book-lover's opinion, this isn't Ms Rice's best work so far.

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• The Star | 18 Feb 2012

  A delightfully bad book, but make no mistake: it is bad. Very bad. Indeed there were times reading it when I thought it must deserve consideration as the worst novel ever written..The closest thing one can imagine to a comic book without pictures

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By Joanna Fourtounas 6 Feb 2013