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Maze353

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:46 pm


Benighted is an excellent book. I love how believable and relevent the story is even though it is fantasy. This book offers a good look at the human condition.

The summary, by Amazon:

In this impressive werewolf novel with a detective story twist, first-time British author Whitfield imagines a contemporary world whose majority are people who "fur up" at full moon; the scorned minority—called barebacks by their wolven, "lycanthropic" peers—are permanently clad in their human skin. Whitfield's bareback protagonist, Lola Galley, is a lawyer with DORLA (Department for the Ongoing Regulation of Lycanthropic Activity), an unpopular organization necessary to maintaining order in a civilized world. Lola's full-moon duties include "dogcatching," or chasing down stray "lunes," lycos in vicious, canine form. When a bareback friend loses a hand to the snapping jaws of a lune—and then turns up shot dead a few days later—it's Lola's job to defend the mauler who becomes a murder suspect. In the process of her investigation, Lola must face her own biases as a minority and unearth the secret behind the divide in her society. A nuanced exploration of prejudice, this deftly written, absorbing debut deserves a crossover literary and fantasy readership.
PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:34 pm


I was looking at it in the bookstore a few months ago, but decided not to buy it then. Is it the start of a series, or a stand-alone book? I'm trying really hard to not start new series, but if it's worth it, I might get it next time I go to the bookstore.

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Maze353

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:54 pm


I think it is just a novel.
PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:32 pm


Cool. Then I may get it over spring break.

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Maze353

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:55 pm


Apparently Warner Bros. has bought the movie rights. The movie should be out in 2009.
PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:10 am


Wow, that was pretty quick. Didn't it come out fairly recently?

NightIntent
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