Scan barcode
A review by rosaliez_reads
Talulla Rising by Glen Duncan
3.0
The plot was the best part of this book. It was suspenseful and kept the reading pushing through pages, eagerly awaiting the next development or twist.
Talulla was a very unsatisfying narrator after Jake. Her struggle between humanity and monstrosity, while at times insightful and interesting, mostly dragged on and became intensely repetitive. Also, her issues with her motherhood seem to be not only drag on forever, but also are not even backed up? She did mess up a couple times, but on the whole, I thought it was pretty evident she had a normal mother's love.... Maybe that was the point though and I just missed out on a huge literary development. Also, her big tragic "Delilah Snow" moment was really not as horrific as some of the other things she/other werewolves have done so I am a bit confused as to why that kept coming up and being such a defining moment. If this would have just been a minor theme in the book, it would have worked quite well (I do see its purpose), but it came up entirely too many times.
On the whole, a fine enough read that you will definitely want to finish to the end. The Last Werewolf was much better, but that seems to be the tragedy of sequels.
Talulla was a very unsatisfying narrator after Jake. Her struggle between humanity and monstrosity, while at times insightful and interesting, mostly dragged on and became intensely repetitive. Also, her issues with her motherhood seem to be not only drag on forever, but also are not even backed up? She did mess up a couple times, but on the whole, I thought it was pretty evident she had a normal mother's love.... Maybe that was the point though and I just missed out on a huge literary development. Also, her big tragic "Delilah Snow" moment was really not as horrific as some of the other things she/other werewolves have done so I am a bit confused as to why that kept coming up and being such a defining moment. If this would have just been a minor theme in the book, it would have worked quite well (I do see its purpose), but it came up entirely too many times.
On the whole, a fine enough read that you will definitely want to finish to the end. The Last Werewolf was much better, but that seems to be the tragedy of sequels.