Howling Dead
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Which earrings look best with fur? Kira Walker is a geek and UNIX systems administrator who has a terrible hair day at least once a month. But when a wolf attacks Kira and her BFF in downtown Denver around the full moon, she-s devastated. Now, like it or not, Kira is unemployed, and the head of Denver-s werewolf pack is getting a small too friendly for her tastes. And, oddly, she keeps finding herself naked in front of road workers. Caught in this new world, Kira discovers there are sinister forces at work. Rogue werewolves have confirmed war against humans, and when Kira-s additional BFF is kidnapped, it gets Kira snarling mad. Can she solve the riddle of the Enchanted jungle before the rogue werewolves kill again? Fashion-challenged Kira will learn that werewolves have a strong bite.
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The leader also repeatedly misuses the word “snuffed.” She uses it as a past tense of sniff, and not as what it really means- to extinguish or place something out, like snuffing a candle. This was incredibly distracting, especially since every time some poor werewolf “snuffed” the wind (which they seemed to do a lot), I thought they made it stop. The heroine complains about the dot-com bust. Since this book was published in 2009, I’m pretty sure the dot-com bust has been busted for a long, long time, especially in equipment years.
Despite these really irritating issues, I wanted to like this book. Werewolves are my favorite. The premise was appealing, but underexploited. The leader would have done well to stop throwing around technical terms, and start giving us more context. I never really understood who the heroine was. In fact, I got more information from the take in blurb about the heroine and her terrible hair days than I did throughout the book.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I bought this book for the stellar reviews and the fantastic fee. I gave it 2 stars as a replacement for of 1 because I really finished it, although I skimmed the last several chapters to get to the end. The tale-line sounded promising, but it came together to quickly. The romance was korny, the character development way too shallow and the whole sci-fi/tech approach just fell fleeting of believable. I will say, it was an appealing approach to the werewolf genre.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
For the first time in my long and varied reading experience, I’ve come across a book that has combined the to some extent inexplicable world of computer equipment and the mystical world of werewolves to stunning and strong results that benefit a reader.
Kira Walker is a system administrator who does consulting work for companies, securing their networks. She and her best friend have stirred from SoCal (Southern California) to Denver to work for a large company with spider (hacker) issues. Slipping out of the building late one night to grab some dinner while they run restoration discs for the system, Kira and her friend are attacked by a wolf. Her friend dies, but Kira survives, and on the next full moon, she realizes just how dramatically that attack has affected her life. She’s now a lycanthrope.
Kira does everything to try to deny this change and the affect it has, while ancient friends come back into her life impact cryptic messages and acting bizarrely. Meeting with the Alpha of the Denver pack, Alaric, doesn’t shine any more light on her burgeoning troubles, but it does point out how gorgeous he is even as it points Kira towards the thought that her attack and subsequent change is unique in that she’s the only one of several recent attack victims that have survived. Her attack has a slightly different MO than the others, but the police are still interested in her accounting of the attack, and police sergeant Jim Walking Bear takes more than just a work related interest in her.
As the tech world and rogue werewolves start to close in around her, Kira struggles to stay alive as she scrambles to find out just what is going on. She’s been tossed into the deep end of a very treacherous pool and the sharks circling all turn furry at the full moon. What’s a geek turned Alpha to do?
I liked Howling Dead, but I have to admit, there was a lot of technical jargon that hit hard, quick, and regularly through the narrative, and while I’m computer savvy, I’m sure not tech enough to grasp it all. I got a small lost more than once. The overall plot was levelheaded, though, and I am really impressed with the inventiveness and sheer bravery in blending such disparate worlds into one tale. My hat’s off to M.H. Bonham for that.
I can’t say I was really tickled with Kira as the lead character, though. That’s not at all uncommon for me, I know I’m picky about the heroines in fantasy novels, but several times Kira came off as very unlikable, and sorry to say for me, she was written in a way that brushes up against a bugaboo of mine. I’ve never liked when a character in a book has become something additional, is told by exceedingly reliable sources that the change is stable, and spends the rest of the book alternately despising what they are or determined to change it regardless of what they were told…even when they’re using their new skills and talents for the benefit of all concerned. That is a personal inclination, not a criticism of the tale, but I mention it because it did affect my enjoyment of the book. I never warmed up to Kira and in fact, spent most of the book in various stages of annoyance with her.
I was slightly disappointed by one additional aspect of the book as a whole. I reflect Bonham did a excellent job laying out the plot and pacing it well and offering it up to the readers clearly (as much as could be done for my less-than-tech-genius understanding, anyway). But while I felt the “what” of the tale was well defined, the “why” of it got a small neglected. By the end, I wasn’t really levelheaded on why the werewolf rogues were doing what they were doing beyond a all-purpose distaste for monkeys and a quest for power. That quest ultimately wasn’t sufficient to clarify the motivations, and there seemed to be a bit of a disconnect between their actions and the scope of danger that humanity would pose for the werewolves if the humans they plotted on cyber attacking through the Enchanted Forrest ever got wind of exactly what they were up against. I don’t reflect reasonably enough attention or credit was agreed for the fact that in this country, the power is in the money, and the quickest way to get a silver bullet in the heart is to piss off security conscious conglomerates with virtually unlimited funding, so I don’t reflect, ultimately, that the “why” of their actions matched up logically or emotionally with the “what” of them enough for me to maintain a willing suspension of disbelief in the huge picture open.
I also had a hard time connecting in any way with the relationships between Kira and Aleric and Kira and Jim. Maybe because I was so overwhelmed by the tech terms slung about with reckless abandon and no explanation for the layman that I lost the ability to feel one way or another about the triangle, though it wasn’t agreed much room to renovate, either. Jim’s character and development in the tale in all-purpose felt a bit odd and out of place, though, so even though I got the impression that the human side of Kira wanted Jim and the Alpha in her wanted Aleric, there was very small offered to allow me to form an emotional opinion of Jim in particular and the romantic triangle in all-purpose one way or the additional.
I’m certainly not sorry I read Howling Dead, and I’d be interested in a sequel, as there’s enough offered to lay the groundwork, but I do wish it had spent a small less time on the tech side and more time on the character and relationship development of the characters, and the reason that they all acted and felt the way they did. 3.5 Stars.
Originally reviewed on One Excellent Book Deserves Another.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I loved this book reasonably well. Nice small mystery, a touch of romance, worked reasonably well. I hope that there is a second book with these characters. I would certainly buy it.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I really loved “Howling Dead.”
It’s well written, with a strong and sympathetic heroine.
Better, it’s one of only a few fantasy genre novels set in Denver, and it describes the city in plain detail. (I lived there 30 years ago, and can ’see’ how it’s grown, especially around downtown.)
Even more unusual, “Howling Dead” is one of very few fantasy novels that accurately describes ‘techie’ type people (men and also women), and has them accomplishing excellent stuff, much less in the face of supernatural challenges.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5