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A review by itskatehill
The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
1.0
1.5. I am so glad to be done with this. I think this is the first one star I've given.
I listened to the audio book for this one, even though I do have a physical copy, and not even Robin Sachs's magical voice could save this.
This furthers my track record with being thoroughly underwhelmed or disappointed by books published in 2011. The day I find a favorite that came out that year will be truly special.
I remember buying this book yeeaarrsss ago, and it has sat on my bookshelf ever since. (Hobby of buying books and reading books are two entirely different things). And I'm glad it'll no longer be there.
Men shouldn't be allowed to write about women anymore. I am sick to death of male writers constantly having to mention breasts in every f*cking thing they write. It's obnoxious. I have never read the words 'breasts,' 'cunt,' and 'anus' so much in my life. I found myself constantly detecting the phantom smell of shit wafting through the air because of how often Duncan also likes to mention bowels and excrement.
The misogyny in this book is ripe. Duncan regularly mentions rape, and seems to have no issue with it. Later in the book Talullah is with one of her captors and has a vision of him quote "sodomising a young girl." Wtf. Oh yeah and while we're on that note, how about this: "I've always said women make the best agents. Deceit comes naturally to them. It's hardly surprising: If you were born with a little hole half the population could stick its dick into whenever it felt like it you'd learn deceit too. Biology is destiny. You can't blame the women." Excuse me...WHAT? There was another instance in which another character told Jake to relax because they all know "it's" your girl, the "it's" being Talullah. Like shut tfu. And of course Talullah is a powerful werewolf but what does she care about at the end? Makeup. That's right. Because of course she does. The way he treats women in general is deplorable.
If the misogynistic tone wasn't bad enough Duncan insists on using weird turns of phrase constantly throughout the book. He actually used 'autism' as a descriptor at one point.
This whole novel just had me constantly saying wtf. He kills his wife in cold blood because of course he does. I don't know whether Jake or Duncan or both are just horribly arrogant or what but I can say that I never gave a single fuck about Jake. If it's not bad enough that Talullah is trying to express vulnerability in a scene and Jake decides to slip a finger into her 'anus', there it is again that damned word Duncan loves so much, he has no redeeming qualities in my eyes.
Other random tidbits: Duncan randomly throws in a Lolita reference which...why? What is he inferring? Does he know what Lolita is about? Oh and his cock thickens or twitches all the fucking time. At seemingly nothing. Stop it.
And of course it ends with Talullah being pregnant. Once again, personally, I'm tired of reading about motherhood being the only reason for characters to keep on living. Why not just be a badass werewolf with your other badass werewolf husband? But then I guess it wouldn't be "The Last Werewolf." There are plenty of women in the world who do not want to be mothers. We have other motivations and reasons for living.
I am shocked to see that the next book, based around Talullah, is the best reviewed of this trilogy. I loathe to admit I'm actually interested in knowing what happens to her, because who wouldn't want to read about a female werewolf, the last one on earth supposedly, but I'm sure Duncan will waste no time in talking about anuses, rape, wombs that supposedly feel something (again, men need to stop writing about women and our anatomy they have no clue what they're saying we do not feel things in our fucking womb), makeup, and whatever else that makes Talullah a werewolf, but not the powerful kind, no, the lesser than kind because she's female, terrified and applying mascara. Eye roll.
I listened to the audio book for this one, even though I do have a physical copy, and not even Robin Sachs's magical voice could save this.
This furthers my track record with being thoroughly underwhelmed or disappointed by books published in 2011. The day I find a favorite that came out that year will be truly special.
I remember buying this book yeeaarrsss ago, and it has sat on my bookshelf ever since. (Hobby of buying books and reading books are two entirely different things). And I'm glad it'll no longer be there.
Men shouldn't be allowed to write about women anymore. I am sick to death of male writers constantly having to mention breasts in every f*cking thing they write. It's obnoxious. I have never read the words 'breasts,' 'cunt,' and 'anus' so much in my life. I found myself constantly detecting the phantom smell of shit wafting through the air because of how often Duncan also likes to mention bowels and excrement.
The misogyny in this book is ripe. Duncan regularly mentions rape, and seems to have no issue with it. Later in the book Talullah is with one of her captors and has a vision of him quote "sodomising a young girl." Wtf. Oh yeah and while we're on that note, how about this: "I've always said women make the best agents. Deceit comes naturally to them. It's hardly surprising: If you were born with a little hole half the population could stick its dick into whenever it felt like it you'd learn deceit too. Biology is destiny. You can't blame the women." Excuse me...WHAT? There was another instance in which another character told Jake to relax because they all know "it's" your girl, the "it's" being Talullah. Like shut tfu. And of course Talullah is a powerful werewolf but what does she care about at the end? Makeup. That's right. Because of course she does. The way he treats women in general is deplorable.
If the misogynistic tone wasn't bad enough Duncan insists on using weird turns of phrase constantly throughout the book. He actually used 'autism' as a descriptor at one point.
This whole novel just had me constantly saying wtf. He kills his wife in cold blood because of course he does. I don't know whether Jake or Duncan or both are just horribly arrogant or what but I can say that I never gave a single fuck about Jake. If it's not bad enough that Talullah is trying to express vulnerability in a scene and Jake decides to slip a finger into her 'anus', there it is again that damned word Duncan loves so much, he has no redeeming qualities in my eyes.
Other random tidbits: Duncan randomly throws in a Lolita reference which...why? What is he inferring? Does he know what Lolita is about? Oh and his cock thickens or twitches all the fucking time. At seemingly nothing. Stop it.
And of course it ends with Talullah being pregnant. Once again, personally, I'm tired of reading about motherhood being the only reason for characters to keep on living. Why not just be a badass werewolf with your other badass werewolf husband? But then I guess it wouldn't be "The Last Werewolf." There are plenty of women in the world who do not want to be mothers. We have other motivations and reasons for living.
I am shocked to see that the next book, based around Talullah, is the best reviewed of this trilogy. I loathe to admit I'm actually interested in knowing what happens to her, because who wouldn't want to read about a female werewolf, the last one on earth supposedly, but I'm sure Duncan will waste no time in talking about anuses, rape, wombs that supposedly feel something (again, men need to stop writing about women and our anatomy they have no clue what they're saying we do not feel things in our fucking womb), makeup, and whatever else that makes Talullah a werewolf, but not the powerful kind, no, the lesser than kind because she's female, terrified and applying mascara. Eye roll.