| Title | : | Queerwolf |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | ebook |
| Number of Pages | : | 244 |
| Publication | : | First published May 11, 2012 |
Queerwolf Reviews
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Wow. What a disappointment. Queerwolf has gotten some rave reviews, most notably at
Reviews By Jessewave, so I was expecting great things. According to the cover, this book contains "Comedy, Romance, Adventure... With a Bite!" but it doesn't really succeed on any of those levels (except maybe the "bite" part). There isn't much in the way of romance , almost all of the humor falls flat, and the "adventure" consists mainly of boring expository dialog and lots of driving around. None of the characters are fleshed out enough for me to care about them. Even Blake, the first-person viewpoint character, doesn't get much development. We only see his life after his change, with very little insight into his interests, his goals, or his past history.
By the time I reached the 75% mark, I was merely skimming, trying to get the book over with. Maybe that's why the ending didn't make any sense to me.
There was one aspect which particularly bothered me, especially in a novel which preaches tolerance.
Rob Rosen's writing isn't bad, but it does feel a bit rushed at times. A few more descriptive passages and a more thorough exploration of his main characters' thoughts and feelings wouldn't go amiss. There are also an abundance of editing errors throughout the novel which give it a messy feel. All in all, Queerwolf is a big letdown. I will think twice before buying another book by this author. -
3.5 Stars Rounded up for snark level.
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I met Blake, the QueerWolf, in another Rob Rosen book titled 'Vamp'. Since I adored that story and laughed my way through it, naturally I had to read the beginning of it all. Plus, who could possibly resist a book named 'QueerWolf'? And, as I had adored the author's writing previously, I had a pretty good feeling about this story.
Blake woke up naked, covered in blood on the deck of a ferry boat, no wallet, no phone, no keys, no memory of what happened the night before after he stepped away from the bar and went to the restroom. He makes his way home and runs into Ted, his downstairs neighbor, whom Blake has ogled a lot, but they don't really know each other very well. Ted lets him use his phone and his shower and loans him some clothes. While Blake is in the shower dreaming of Ted coming in and joining him…that exact thing occurs. Huh. When Blake asks Ted what's going on, not that he's complaining, Ted pulls away and says he doesn't know, he was just drawn to Blake. Weird keeps getting weirder. Blake gets back into his apartment only to find it demolished. Then he gets a phone call from a stranger, but not really a stranger, at least not to his gut, who tells him he'll be over that evening and explain everything. The weirder just got the weirdest!
Please find my full review at
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Hard to rate...
This was hilarious and slightly ridiculous yet sometimes I questioned the morality. Blake uses his mind powers without compunction and there is a sexual scene that I feel borders on assault as there was absolutely no consent to the act. The werewolf aspect and searching for a pack was good though, and I mostly liked Blake (except for the above behaviour) and Ted. The characters they encounter are interesting and I liked the end. Steve was a sleaze and I think he should have had a different outcome than what he did. -
em>Queerwolf by Rob Rosen is a paranormal comedy with a little romance on the side. Queerwolf tells the story of Blake and Ted's road trip on the way to discovering what it's like to wake up an alpha werewolf in search of a pack. This is more adventure than romance, as Blake and Ted seem to fall into a relationship out of convenience more than anything else. Blake's an accountant, while Ted's a lab tech. The two young men live in the same building, but until Blake comes home half-naked and locked out of his apartment, they never speak to each other.
Queerwolf opens with the scene of Blake lying on a ferry in a pool of blood. As soon as I read this I was immediately intrigued. What's Blake doing naked on a ferry and where did the blood come from? Rosen is a skillful writer. Unfortunately, I did not find the characters or the plot engaging. There was no real passion or heat that I could see between Blake and Ted. There more passion between Blake and Stephen, the villain of Queerwolf.
Rosen also departs from current werewolf mythos, so there are some strange werewolf activities such as talking and telepathy. Rosen introduces genetics, hyper-adrenalism and hyper-sexual arousal into the mix of werewolf features, particularly, gay werewolves. Mitzy, the only female in the story, doesn't appear to have the same overheated sex drive. Some of these physical features threw me. For example, how do you get human speech from a werewolf's vocal chords? Or, what about leading a werewolf around on a leash and having him look like a normal dog? How is this possible if he has hands capable of manipulations?
There's plenty of low-brow comedy in Queerwolf. There were some genuine comedic moments in the story, but much of the humor was more snarky that anything else. Queerwolf is not one I'm going to be reading again.
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Creative Ink Romance Reviews -
I have had bad mornings over the years but nothing like the morning our hero Ted faced in Queerwolf by Rob Rosen. He woke up on morning on a ferry, naked, lying in a pool of blood with neither his wallet nor his keys to be found. Luckily, he runs into his super-hunky next door neighbor Blake outside of his apartment building who helps him out by letting him use his phone and take a shower.
Soon we learned how Ted ended up in such an unseemly situation: he turned into a werewolf for the first time while out on a date and then ate a sea lion (hence, all the blood). But the plot thickens as he learns that he's not only a werewolf but an alpha and that the local pack of werewolves wants him dead. Thus begins the hilarious misadventures of Blake and Ted as they try to figure a way out of their predicament (Oh yeah - did I neglect to mention that Ted ends up sleeping with Blake? Many times?).
While what I described above doesn't seem all humorous at the surface, the novel is indeed truly hysterical and I spent a good portion of my reading time either smiling or laughing out loud. I can best describe this story as a adrenaline-fuel romantic comic romp with a tinge of horror, mystery, family drama and hot sex thrown in. Rob Rosen gives us an entirely new kind of werewolf who has to deal with many of the same issues as all of us: trying to fit in and dealing with being different.
I so loved this book! It was funny, gripping, fun and very well written. Recommended!!!! -
Also available in Kindle format.
“Well, fuck me with a duck and make me go quack,”
Rosen, Rob (2012-05-12). Queerwolf (Kindle Location 1936). MLR Press,LLC. Kindle Edition.
Rob does it again. I love his humor and I absolutely loved this book.
"The coldest winter I ever spent was the summer I spent in San Francisco?” Rosen, Rob (2012-05-12). Queerwolf (Kindle Location 3182). MLR Press,LLC. Kindle Edition.
I worked in S.F. for ten years, No truer words ever spoken. -
I am crazy stupid happily in love with this book! It's THE best, most unique take on the whole werewolf theme I've ever read. Blake's pack are a fantastic mix of muttly misfits that fit so well together it's a wonder that it took so long for them to find each other...but I'm soooo glad they did. Pure belly laughing genius!
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I can't say why but I could not get into this book.
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Hilarious - even if you are not a fan of the paranormal genre.
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Blake is an accountant by day and a confused, newly formed werewolf by, well by every waking hour, actually. After waking up lost, naked, and doused in blood, he manages to make his way home only to realize that without keys he is locked out and in fairly desperate straits! Enter Ted, the hottie two floors down. And if the erection in Blake’s pants is any indication, Ted is quite the appealing guy.
I have to stop here and just admit off the bat that I LOVED this guy! Both of them actually. But the way in which Rob Rosen chose to write the character of Ted–his easygoing nature, his blithe acceptance, his falling head over heels in love with Blake despite the fact that he admits to being a werewolf; well, in less adept hands this character would have been a disaster–but no–this guy was gold, solid gold!
This story had many–many secondary characters who were just as fully and richly drawn as the two main men So come along with me while I give you a rough overview of how they all intermingled in this stunningly well-crafted story, Queerwolf by Rob Rosen.
Blake has a boyfriend–Ted. Ted helps Blake discover that the wealthy son of the local sheriff, Steven Littleton, was inadvertently responsible for the arousal (pun intended–read the book, you’ll get the joke) of a latent gene that Blake carries which turned him into a werewolf. Not just any werewolf, mind you, but one that was able to shift without the aid of the full moon.
Steven was an alpha in his own right and leader of a large pack in San Francisco, and the pack does not like Blake–in fact they want to kill him. So after taking a road trip, Ted and Blake have a family meeting with Blake’s parents and find out that the gene he has often skips generations and that there may very well be others with the same genetic anomaly.
Ted and Blake along with Blake’s Grandpa (Gramps) who is on parole for–well just about every crime imaginable under the header for grand larceny–set off on an adventure to find these other “queerwolves” before the next full moon when Steven’s pack has threatened to hunt Blake down and eat him as an appetizer at their next dinner party. Along for the ride is a tough bodyguard rolled into a tiny, cute little package that goes by the name of Mitzy. One thing leads to another and they begin to find various other pack members that all have their own brand of unique quirkiness.
I know what you are thinking–wow–lots of characters, really involved plot-line, maybe easy to get lost in such a huge cast. Stop right there–here is the beauty of the twisted, yet scathingly brilliant mind of Rob Rosen–you never get lost, honest. He unpacks each character and adds their thread to this beautifully quilted story one stitch at a time. From our meeting with Joseph, who is being kept drugged by his mother so that her pack does not realize he is carrying the gene, to the cross dressing Mack, a Barbra Streisand impersonator who will do anything for the $20,000 dollars he needs to get a pair of boobs,to poor Ralph who changed and never was able to change back and therefore remains locked in wolf form, this group has you laughing, sighing and shaking your head at their crazy antics!
I could go on and on. You have to read this book. It is by far the funniest, best crafted novel I’ve read in a long time! It marches on without a pause, and sweeps you along in its action packed wake, leaving you gasping for breath and wiping the tears from your eyes from laughter! Then near the end, Mr, Rosen drops this little gem in your lap and you pause–realizing that you just read something rather profound.
“Anyway, just be who you are and the others will eventually fall in line. If you live your life in fear of change, then the fear will kill you long before that change eventually does.”
And there it was, the meaning behind the funny one-liners and non-stop giggles: be yourself, don’t live in fear, just live…before it’s too late.
I highly recommend Queerwolf by Rob Rosen to you. It IS a 5 star read! -
Author Rob Rosen's sense of humor, horror, and horny is all apparent as soon as you begin reading this novel about a man who finds out he comes from a lineage of werewolves. But first, he wakes up covered in blood and unable to remember the date he had the night before.
This is all out fun and a wicked fast read. It's campy, comic, sexy and naughty, and an adventurous story of a werewolf, his hot new man, and the unexpected gang--including a Republican grandfather, a drag queen, a dude in a wheelchair, and a tough female "bodyguard"--who must go up against San Francisco's most fierce (as in vicious, in this case) pack of werewolves. On top of all that, our leading man/werewolf has to contend with another big, chronic problem...if you know what I mean.
Written in first person, this is a light and playful narrative that never gets heavy and doesn't deal with downer issues that come with being gay. It's strictly a horror sex comedy about gay werewolves. Perfect. -
I had really high hopes for this one, since it was supposed to be really funny. And it was... Somewhat.
I think that the problem is I prefer my humor to be really snarky and rambling, so in that sense the book was a wee miss for me...
However it wasn't a bad book. It was well-written and had a slew of great characters, both MC's and supporting.
Blake was great and Ted was kind of adorable. The band of misfits they collect during their adventure was fun, but not enough for me to think this will be a re-read.
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2.75 stars It just didn't really pull me in. The writing is good w/ few errors or typos and it's a different take of the werewolf story but..... It has its humorous moments but the characters didn't seem fully fleshed out.
There is dub con involving a minor character that put me off as well as it came across as juvenile, unnecessary, and just mean (high school, anyone?). -
This is a different take on the typical werewolf story. There is a bit of romance, a bit of sex and a hilarious cast of characters that will crack you up a few times before you get to the end.
My first by this author. I look forward to reading more.
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I really enjoyed how fast paced this was and the virve with which the author has written the characters and their personalities. Lovely handling of the subject matter and you didn't feel left out of the entire adventure. I would suggest this to anyone to read, it was a happy pleasant read
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This was a very funny werewolf story. I frightened my daughter by laughing out loud while reading this book.
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2.5 Stars
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I will let Mandy read it first
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Very funny take on werewolves.
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4.5 rounded up to 5 stars
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Funny. Quite a few laugh out loud moments. 3.5 stars.
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Fun supernatural romp with more internal logic than most of these bother with -- so fun and smart! Also snarky, as you can expect with any Rosen book.
