Book Snails Book Group discussion

This is the discussion thread for our January Book of the Month, The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan.
Please feel free to say anything but make sure to put any spoilers in a spoiler.

Here is the blurb:
One last full moon — then it will all be over.

Jacob Marlowe has lost the will to live. For two hundred years he has wandered the world, enslaved by his lunatic appetites and tormented by the memory of his first and most monstrous crime. Now, the last of his kind, he knows he cannot go on.

But as Jake counts down to suicide, a violent murder and an extraordinary meeting plunge him straight back into the desperate pursuit of life — and love.

Sexy, smart, bloody and heartbreaking, The Last Werewolf takes literature by the throat. 

I didn't realize it till I looked further, but this is Book #1 of a trilogy. So there's more to love, at least if you enjoy lycanthropes (or enjoy being scared of them).

I know and I do. I got sent book three last year.I started to read it but something anout it made me think this isn't the first. So I looked it up and sure enough it's a trilogy. Oddly, I had the first book, which I bought years ago and can now finally read. I just finished a werewolf book, so I am reading The Mere Wife before I start this. I didn't want to compare this book to the other werewolf book, which I loved.

Wow. I really liked this. I was torn between three and four stars and settled on three. The prose is fantastic. Duncan uses language so beautifully and brilliantly. I had to look up a word and I think he may have even made up some, but they worked. I wonder if Talulla Rising will be the same. By rights it shouldn't be unless Jacob is telling the story.
Has anyone else been reading this?

Keli wrote: "Wow. I really liked this. I was torn between three and four stars and settled on three. The prose is fantastic. Duncan uses language so beautifully and brilliantly. I had to look up a word and I th..."

When an author makes up words, and you can't even tell if they are fake words, that's good writing! Glad you liked this book.

Is "silencered" a word? I don't think so but he managed to turn a noun into an adjective and it made sense. The "silencered bullet" paints the picture in three words, I know what's happening, what instrument is being used and the intent of the person using it. I'll have to see if I can remember the word I looked up. But he uses "ontologically," which is such a university word. No one uses that in common parlance.