Review: The Wolf Gift: The Graphic Novel

The Wolf Gift: The Graphic Novel by Anne Rice

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



I really liked the artwork...it had a manga feel too it. Very clean and angular. The story is a little interesting if not a little...hmm... how to put it without spoilers. It's not very complex for the first three-quarters of the story. The main character started out broody and thinking, but quickly became a bland ubermensch. The age of his love interests stuck me as a little odd.. not because cougar-cub relationships don't happen but because their age is paired with a vapid sense of the present, or lack of sense of the future, or even self-preservation! The more complex part oof the story seems shoved in at the last minute. I wish she would have written THAT as a story, it seemed far more interesting. Rewrite the whole thing from their point of view. Anyway, I didn't believe it. Take that comment for what it's worth. I read a lot of supernatural fiction, but am new to supernatural graphic adaptions. Still, I'm very familiar with Rice's work and this simply misses a lot of purpose and character depth. I'm hoping it was simply lost in translation between novel and graphic adaption.

Some spoilers follow.










I couldn't ge behind either of the older female love interests. First, you sleep with the young reporter writing about the sale of your house. Cool. But then the very next morning you will him your entire estate? No way. You did not fail to squander your estate by being that flighty.

Next. Giant singing wolf-bear-thing outside your house. You not only let it get near you but somehow decide to let it into your house, and happily have sex with it. Does lady live alone in the woods because it's the only safe place to practice her beastiality? This is seriously not normal. And then, a man pops up in a diner, claiming to be said wolfman, and you run away with him like it's a fairy tale? This woman is either psychotic and missing her medications or is unbelievably badly written.



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