Echoes of a Storm

I advise you to set your sensitivities and prejudices aside before starting this book. The story is dark; the characters are flawed, and the end is brutal, just as advertised.

My favourite thing about it was the different take on werewolves. Usually portrayed as mindless brutes, self-pitying outcasts or sexy beasts, in Echoes of a Storm, the werewolf is a man who owns his monstrosity. He's competent and unapologetic. In any other story he would probably be the villain, but in this one he barely stands a chance against the real villain, a creature so cunning and despicable you'll just love to hate.

I think I'd enjoyed this book a lot more had I been reading it, though. I found the narration quite difficult to follow at the beginning. The long pauses and lapses in editing kept pulling me out of the narrative. That being said, the narration improved considerably towards the end and Echoes of a Storm is far from tedious. The constant PoV changes and references to past events worked pretty well and forced me to keep paying attention in order to put the pieces together. Still, to say the end was unexpected is an understatement, but I can't say much more than that without spoilers, you'll just have to read it to find out why.

(I received an audible copy from the author in exchange for an honest review.)