ok. back to werewolves. so i read fool moon which is the second book in the dresden files series, and this one deals with werewolves.
here is a basic recap of the premise. there is this guy. harry blackstone and he is a magician that you can hire and he lives in chicago. i guess in the last book there was some sort of incident with something or whatever and he isnt getting hired for anything...UNTIL there is this bloody gruesome murder and he gets called up to investigate. where it pretty much leads is to werewolves.
now here is what i found interesting. there are three types of werewolves: hexenwolves, lycanthropes, and loup-garou. now there is a significant difference between these different werewolves.
lets start with hexenwolves. they were the one type of werewolf that we did not really look at, but i think we did talk about. hexenwolves have an enchanted amulet that enables them to change form from human into werewolf (or hexenwolf in this case). i thought that is was pretty cool because there is nothing other than the magic object that makes them transform. that means that they did not need to be bitten. i thought that this was an interesting take on werewolves. after a little bit of research i found that this was not an original interpretation, but instead is is actually rooted in legend. which i also thought was pretty cool because we hadnt come across it yet.
ok. lycanthropes: they are basically just crazy strong and wicked powerful and can change at will.. but they also heal quickly. they are pretty much the same as the lycans (wow who would have thought of that) in underworld. nothing really especially interesting there.
loup-garou: this is just the french word for werewolf. these ones only change at the full moon against their will. so they are similar to some of the werewolves that we looked at. sort of like lawrence talbot in the wolf man. in fact exactly like him.
anyhow, i thought that it was interesting to incorporate three different types of werewolves throughout the book and have them all explicitly explained.
as far as the book goes, i wasnt crazy about it, but it was entertaining. the writing isnt great and there is a lot of dry humor along the way that got sort of old, but i guess i would recommend it to a friend that was interested in werewolves.
