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· Paperback: 288 pages
· Publisher: Three Rivers Press (October 6, 2009)
· Language: English
· ISBN-10: 0307460835
· ISBN-13: 978-0307460837
· Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
I finished Frostbite by David Wellington today and was really disappointed by it. It was not at all like the blurb on the back of the book described it to be.
"For Cheyenne Clark, there's a bad moon on the rise . . .
There's one sound a woman doesn't want to hear when she's lost and alone in the Arctic wilderness: a howl.
When a strange wolf's teeth slash Cheyenne's ankle to the bone, her old life ends, and she becomes the very monster that has haunted her nightmares for years. Worse, the only one who can understand what Chey has become is the man-or wolf-who's doomed her to this fate. He also wants to chop her head off with an axe. "
I also felt the character development was lacking even as far as the main characters go. Especially, Dzo, the wolf's friend at first he's just your backwater creep-o but then it's revealed that he's not so human either. I thought this was an interesting twist. The book never makes it clear what Dzo is exactly. All Wellington tells his readers is that he's native American, hangs around shape shifters and can transport himself via water. It almost felt as though Wellington hit a roadblock and decided that because he was the author, he could just run with things at times without any explanation at all. I just couldn’t make myself connect to any of the characters. It was like as soon as the possibility of a character breakthrough was about to happen, Wellington would stop, quickly wrap it up and move on. I will say that Wellington did take the time to thoroughly describe the Landscape where the story was taking place. If only he had put more effort into the rest of the novel.