Crisp, biting prose. Great characterization. Excellent pacing. Would have been a five star book for me but the ending felt very rushed, too compressed.

i love this book like gravy.i have felt pretty distanced from my books, lately. nothing has been grabbing me and sucking me in, not since The Last Whisper in the Dark. but this one grabbed me right from the start and i was immediately absorbed into the story and invested in its plot and characters.was it perfect? no. i loved the book, but i totally agree with a lot of what mike says here. and other reviewers point out that the final scenes in the book felt a bit rushed and convenient and left a

So I read this a few weeks ago now, only just getting around to a review due to extreme book reading, but looking back I’d quite like to read this one all over again. And probably will a few times over the next few years.It was an absolute genius of a story really – a Werewolf saga that is so much more than that, a real romp of a tale, with plenty of thrills and plenty of emotion, which is hugely satisfying and has a social message at its heart.In a world where Werewolves exist alongside us, we

A super interesting concept and well written but waaaay to damn long lol reminded me of a more narrative World War Z but werewolves instead of zombies. Full review eventually! I'm so behind and unmotivated ugh

The bartender bends over to peek at the book I'm reading. I'm holding it just high enough for him not to have to squat down like he's picking up a dropped coin just to see the cover. "Red Moon," I tell him. "It takes place in an alternate reality where 5% of the population is basically werewolves. They call them lycans."His eyes light up."But they are all drugged up so they can't change, and it's illegal to turn into a lycan most places anyway," I say. "Then some of them become terrorists."The b...

DNF, so no rating.I just can't keep reading this book.The premise of this book is that there are lycans (basically werewolves who can change form whenever they want, not just with a full moon) that have been in the world for centuries. The United States is currently fighting a war with the lycans in their homeland, and the discussion of this is clearly meant to remind us of the U.S. in Afghanistan/Iraq. The fear of lycan U.S. citizens living in the U.S. also mimics the fear of Muslims by some in...

I didn’t dislike this but it’s so overblown and utterly devoid of even the slightest shred of humour that I can’t bring myself to give it more than 3 stars. It’s well written and trots along at a decent enough pace but I found myself unable to care for any of the characters.An occasional small ‘wink to camera’ showing that the author was aware that the basic premise is a little silly would have endeared the book to me a bit more. As it is, it’s overly po-faced and takes itself far too seriously....

A werewolf epic. Can't stop thinking about it.

This book is trying to do a whole lot and for that I'm going to give it 4 stars. Interesting political allegory via a werewolf story. Great characters, engrossing plot, crisp writing with lots of lovely detail. Percy clearly put his all into this novel. In some ways, reminiscent of The Passage. The end is a hot mess, rushed, overly convenient. I'd have liked to see the book either 200 pages longer or 150 pages shorter. Nonetheless, lots to love here, and this is well worth reading.

I eagerly awaited the reading of this book, but it ultimately left me rather flat. I do think Percy is a great writer, and I would definitely give him another try sometime.

Very interesting and spellbinding book. I really liked it.

A tremendous read, werewolves and humankind blended together. Lots to ponder on this one.

This is exactly the kind of book that makes me want to start a book review blog. From a writer's perspective, this book had a lot going for it. I didn't expect to like it at all. In fact, I started reading it because it was laying around when I had the flu and needed something light to occupy me. But the way it was written drew me in. Percy's prose is really quite lovely, full of startling images and precise verbs. I'm a fan of present tense, which this book uses to its advantage. Percy allows t...

I thought this would be an urban fantasy since it has werewolves in it, but they weren't paranormal in origin. Instead, they are the result of a prion disease like Mad Cow. An excellent basis for a story of prejudice & segregation, revolution, extremism, & terrorism - a minority defined & undercut by the few. Overall, it was a 5 star world that Percy created, very innovative.There were some great characters, too. No super heroes, just regular people in tough, but rather ordinary (by this world's...

Let me start by saying that my interest in werewolves or lycans (I still am unclear as to whether or not they are the same thing or not), has been almost non-existent. It has always come across cheesy and unbelievable to me. Now, I know they aren’t real, but I still want to buy the story I am being sold. They never felt real to me. I could buy vampires, evil entities sucking the souls out of towns, Frankenstein’s monster, psychotic serial killers….but werewolves…not so much. It just wasn’t my cu...

An epic werewolf story of mammoth proportions.Be prepared for a long journey that was at times exhausting. If written by another, parts of this would surely drag, it is a long book, but Percy's writing is simply fabulous and keeps you going.

Despite my notorious hatred of not finishing books, I might let this one go for a while. It's just not that well-written -- I'm pretty amazed at all the people here who think Percy's some kind of amazing prose stylist; Ben Aaronovitch, say, is much better -- and there's one narrative tic another reviewer mentioned which is just fatal. Time and again, there's a really suspenseful setup -- then a CUT TO BLACK which feels straight out of television -- and then, a much-diluted flashback which goes o...

A copy of Red Moon was provided to me by Grand Central Publishing/Netgalley for review purposes.'Plagues don't just kill people - and that's what lobos is, a plague - they kill humanity.'Red Moon deals with an alternate world history, one where lycans are real and all are aware of their existence. The story is told from several different points-of-view and spans several years. At its core, Red Moon is about xenophobia, racial discrimination and acts of terrorism, a subject that can be applied to...

Red Moon by Benjamin Percy is an interesting take on the classic werewolf craze that has kept many people awake at night. He suggests that their has been werewolves since the beginning mankind. A pathogen that inhabits the body and results in an organism part human, part wolf. The humans infected with the Lobos bacteria are known as lycans in Red Moon and they walk among us medicated and often times undetected.Red Moon follows a few characters who's individual stories converge. Claire is journey...

SUPER FAST REVIEW:Fuck... I really don’t like this book.The story could have been decent but the execution makes it feel more like a stupid YA type book (not that all YA is stupid, this just has that kinda feel and is stupid) except slightly more edgy. I couldn’t care less about the characters. The writing style is extremely drawn out, detailed and dry which I know some people like that, to me it’s boring as fuck. The political element is terribly written as it tries to use the same thing as a m...