The Sacred book of the werewolf

I don't usually write serious reviews, because i'm not too sure what exactly my opinion counts for, but this book was fantastic, and nobody has heard of it, so i'm just doing my bit.



It's the perfect example of why to not judge a book by it's cover.

I was recomended the 'City Lights' book store in San Francisco, and when inside, i found that the walls were lined with books i'd never heard of, there was no best sellers, or chart topping sections. Just simply good books. I spent a good few hours in there, picking up all sorts of books, not sure which to buy. On my way to the checkout, this one caught my eye. I read the back:

"ROUGH WEREWOLF ON WEREWOLF SEX. WERE-CREATURE PHILOSOPHY THAT DOUBLES AS SATIRICAL CONTENT. PUCKY UNDERAGE RUSSIAN PROSTITUTES WHO ARE ACTUALLY MILLENIA-OLD SUPERNATURAL BEINGS. NONSTOP REFERENCES TO ICONIC AUTHORS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND POP CULTURE. IF YOU ENJOY HAVING ALL OF THESE ELEMENTS IN YOUR FICTION, YOU'LL LOVE THIS BOOK - WASHINGTON POST."

I found this quote quite, well, stupid. This is probably the only book to contain more than one of those elements, never mind all of them, so if you enjoy having all of these elements in your fiction, the Washington Post should have said, then you've probably read this book already!

Aside from that, all those elements did exite me, and so i bought the book. Needless to say, the Washington Post's blurb did not do it much justice.

The book is about a girl, A Hui-li. She's a good few thousand years old, and is a 'Fox'. Ancient were-creatures that look like young girls, but have big bushy fox tails, which they use as hypnotic antenni to confuse people into seeing whatever the fox wills them to. A hui-li confuses men into thinking she just had sex with them, and so they pay her. She's been doing this for thousands of years, and so, understandably, is very jaded by the human race, and the sorts of sex human men can offer her. The first half of the book focuses on A Hui-Li, giving an objective commentary on the life of humans, and the errors of their ways. I did really find myself believing everything this immortal, slightly insane girl told me, despite the fact that it was actually written by a middle aged Russian man.

Anyway, halfway through the book, she whips her tail out to hypnotise a man. He laughs at her, morphs into a huge shaggy beast, and rapes her.

They then discover what sort of "tailechery" two magical were-creatures can do together, and the book, while continuing in its satirical commentary on life, takes a more sexually perverse turn.

A Hui-li, in her jaded, internal monologues provide the reader with many a pearl of wisdom, such as:
"A woman's attractiveness has less to do with her hairstyle, or the lighting, than with a mans balls."

And Alexander, the slightly less intelligent werewolf, often tries to play his part in the books ongoing existential debate:
''The philosopher Berkley believed that everything only exists when it is perceived. If this is so, then sex and masturbation are the same thing. If everything only exists in perception, then surely making love to an imaginary girl is better than making love to a real girl."

I won't give much away, but it was a wonderful read and I learnt a lot from these two characters. You might turn your head away in disgust if your experience of werewolves is now nothing more than those featured in Twilight. But let me assure you, the werewolves in this book are much more exiting; they're cleverer, less frigid, and have much bigger dicks.