Wolf Moon Book

I've been having trouble finding a book to settle with lately. I'll pick up something, and it won't be quite what I want. Maybe I'm being too picky or maybe I'm just between genres at the momemnt and am finding it hard to settle.

I'll admit; I've been slow to warm up to de Lint. I'm not sure why.

I picked this up because it had a werewolf in it. I like werewolves. They are much better than vampires. Apparently, this was an early work by de Lint and one of his favorites.

It's not a bad little book. It features an nice inversion - good werewolf, bad harper (okay, today, it's not that much of an inversion). I found some of the characters to be a little stock, in particular the female lead. De Lint, however, gets points for making the women young, but not too young (both ladies are in their twenties); he gets bonus points for making the ladies friends.

The book isn't really deep, but it is nice, quick, fast paced read. De Lint writes in the back that he intended to focus on the "small" events instead of the big quest, the idea being that "small" events aren't small because we all live them. He succeds quite well.