Moon Dance eBook SP Somtow
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When Carrie Dupré travels to the remote town of Winter Eyes to study a famed psychopath, she uncovers a dark history of violence, culture wars . . . and werewolves. MOON DANCE is a tale of horror and the supernatural alternating between the present of the 1960's and the Old West of the 1880's that fully explores the complexities of animal instinct, multiple personality disorder, sexual dominance and the nature of evil.
"True genius! There’s power in these pages – raw, brutal, overwhelming power that transforms man into beast. This is more than a book it’s an experience. One that you won’t forget!”
- Robert Bloch, author of PSYCHO
“S.P. Somtow doesn’t write like anyone else; his is a fresh voice, engaging as it is unique…when he wants to spook you, he can drive the chill bone deep.”
- Dean R. Koontz
Moon Dance eBook SP Somtow
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Moon Dance eBook SP Somtow Reviews
From the outset, I enjoyed the book. Historical fiction wrapped up in elements of the horror genre (or perhaps vice versa). By the third part of the book, I was tired of it all, and was reading it just to complete it. Although the decription "epic" is probably incorrect, Moon Dance is certainly comprehensive, but only because everything was taken past the point of 'useful' into the realm of 'repetitive'. The consistently brutal violence and visceral imagery techniques make compelling reading if used sparingly, but overused they sledgehammer the reader with the less essential elements of the story. There were a number of battles, though none were particularly interesting, and a volume of characters who were typically flat and uninvolved. Why is it there were there no Lakota characters from the Shungmanitu? I left the book with the impression that the Native Americans were enlightened saints, the pioneers largely perverse psychopaths.
Somtow has an unparalelled gift as a storyteller to skip back and forth in time with a whole array of characters and situations without losing a beat. Who else to write the Gone with the Lycantrophic Wind? Moondance is a gripping portrayal of the European expansion into the West in the late 1800s and a powerfully visceral and gory festival of horrific delights. While author after author has turned to the vampire as preferred archetype, Somtow turned to werewolves, and like as well wrote a titan granddaddy of an epic while he was at it. Two thumbs up, and ten mighty hails to Mr Somtow. I well nigh felt the travails an tribulations, the strife and hardships of Europeans, Americans and Indians alike, all in heady cocktail of crossing and interconnected events. What a spectacular drama this novel is. Yes I speak in the present tense - I still got about two hundred pages to go. I just had to come on and give my views on it this far. It's sexy and erotic and the novel can be seen as a grand slam romance with slavering beasts fighting it out in between like a West Side Story out of hell. Read the book; go see some history and get a ingenious chiller in the same bargain!
The fact that this book is considered the "Gone With The Wind" of werewolf novels only indicates how low the bar is set for this genre. It's not that there isn't a decent story here - it's that Somtow is an atrocious writer.
The character development is so flimsy I can barely remember their names. About two-thirds of the way through the book a major character is ripped apart by werewolves and I honestly didn't feel anything because I couldn't tell him and his buddy apart. These quibbles, however, pale in comparison to the accents Somtow gives his non-native-English speaking characters. Take a look at these lines from a Russian character speaking English
"'You have what you want,' Natasha said. 'You have killed Indians, that is greatest desire of your life, is it not?...As for boy, his death is immaterial..."
Yeah. First off, if you're writing for an American audience at any point post-1960, 1) do not name your evil Russian female character Natasha, and 2) do not give her an accent that makes me think of moose and squirrel.
Then there are these lines from a Native American character
"Although she had learned flawless French from her husband, she had never understood English very well. But she drew herself up as tall as she could and spoke in the pidgin that was the lingua franca among traders, Indians and Chinamen 'Me wife of Claude Grumiaux. Bring message. Heap important message!"
Holy cultural sensitivities, Batman! Even if Somtow researched this element and found it to be historically accurate, you have to be very careful how you present something like that. You have to be a very, very good writer to work something like that into your novel without making it sound like a farce. And Somtow is not that writer. It's not even relevant to the plot, so he could have (and should have) just left it out.
As for the "splatterpunk" appellation often given to this novel, I can only assume it refers to the ghastly way Somtow butchers the English language. Take a look at these passages
"The head of an old man - she knew it was Andrew Raitt, a watchmaker - lay in the mud at the boy's feet. The morning sunlight, smoke-dappled, illumined his face; wordlessly, in time to a sourceless music, he began to move slowly in a circle, his eyes closed."
I spent five minutes trying to figure out why/how the head was dancing before I figured out Somtow was referring to the boy.
For all its failures, and they are legion, the novel does have one positive attribute. Somtow has done his research on wolves, at least based upon the scientific information available at the time. There are multiple references to the peculiar stare wolves sometimes give their prey, where it appears they are asking the prey's permission to take its life. This has been mentioned in other works published prior to this one. So a round of applause to you, Somtow, since it seems that here at least you did your homework.
To conclude, I leave you with the closing line from this epic masterpiece of werewolf literature
"Eat my s***! Smell my piss! I am the queen!"
I think we're done here.
Awesome.
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A wild west romp with werewolves. The book starts off well dealing with insanity and the curse of the werewolf, but about halfway through it starts repeating itself in endless circles. Some of the main characters are killed off at the half way mark, no new characters are introduced, and the remaining few just repeat themselves until the false climax.
Somtow is one of my favorite authors. This is a masterpiece.
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