10.10.2011
The Pack
by Jason Starr, 341 pgs, hardcover
Overall Grade: B
Simon Burns is an ad exec. Or he was until he was abruptly fired. Now adjusting to the life of a stay-at-home dad and a struggling marriage, he meets a trio of other single dads at the park. He quickly finds camaraderie with these guys, but after a chill evening of dinner, beer and hanging out turns into a nightmare of blacked-out memory and Simon's former boss turns up dead, mauled by a wolf, things quickly spiral out of control. Just what is going on with the mysterious Michael and their friends?
A satisfying, modern take on how one's life would be royally messed up by becoming a werewolf, or werewolf-like. The tale is short on how the transformation process actually works (aside from the necessity of biting), and it does end somewhat suddenly when you'd like more resolution.
Labels: genre: fantasy, genre: fiction, media: book
