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Tedious, Tacky, Too Much....Just My Personal Opinion, Of Course...

Lycaon. Engraving by Hendrik Goltzius (1558-1617) for Ovid's Metamorphoses Book I, 209 ff. Français : Lycaon. Gravure d'Hendrik Goltzius (1558-1617) pour les Métamorphoses d'Ovide, livre I, 209 et suiv. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Red Moon By Benjamin Percy This review is Just My Personal Opinion, Of course...so it comes to you in a different wrapper... I know, I know, werewolves are popular now after the whole Twilight thing...I had so far avoided any of these books but slipped when I chose to read Red Moon. Sure I enjoyed the horror of werewolves when I was young...scary good, right? But I draw the line in getting romantically involved with them...or any other horror monster for that matter... I read about just under 100 pages, including the Epilogue and that was done over a series of days. One reviewer claimed this was literary horror...OMG... At 530 pages, writing a literary novel of horror makes this, to me, just tedious...It was hard to get into th...