Book Review: The Blood of Wolfbane

Book: The Blood of Wolfbane by Joann Harris

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Publisher: CreateSpace

Description:

Once the bayou was thick with it. The buttery yellow petals. The delicately veined green leaves. The seductive scent of wolfbane.

The DAWN OF DOOM...

Philip was happy now that he had his pint of Old Charter and decided to take a shortcut through the graveyard toward home. He paused every now and then to speak to the headstone or crypt of some poor departed soul he'd known in better days. Then he heard a moaning. He looked around, spotting a huge mound of earth that he did not remember being there the last time he took this shortcut.

Phillip decided to take a look. He staggered toward the mound of earth, stopping as he heard a snarling sound. It was muffled, as if it came from the grave itself. Phillip clawed his way up the mound of damp earth and peered over the top, his glasses sitting firmly on the end of his nose. And he came face to face with the worst sight he'd witnessed in his life, drunk or sober. A hairy face was staring back at him, eyes red-rimmed and animal-like. The mouth was huge, with fangs bared, drool leaking from both corners of the aperture. And one large hairy hand surfaced from the hole-landing squarely on Phillip's shoulder.



Rating: 1 star (Did Not Finish)

Review:

I couldn't finish reading this, the writing unfortunately stinks. I found the writing besides being awful was also too simplistic and unmoving. And as a horror story, it certainly didn't invoke any sense of fear. This poorly written story was lackluster and not to mention disjointed.

The prologue opens in 1932 with the townspeople going after a guy who had just transformed back to human from being a beast. Then after they killed him, they ran his family out of town with the wife vowing her return.

Then the first chapter opens in 1975 with two boaters out on the water and one of them possibly saw something strange out in the woods. That's as far as I got because I really couldn't take the writing any more.

Reading this felt as if I was watching one of those really awful syfy channel movies.