Review by Marilyn Peake for FULL WOLF MOON by K.L. Nappier:

FULL WOLF MOON by K.L. Nappier is an amazing novel. On the one hand, it is a frightening werewolf story. K.L. Nappier's excellent use of language is, like the werewolf itself, stealthy and cunning. The movement of the beast gets beneath the reader's skin, tensing muscles and making hair stand on end, before the reader is aware of what has happened.

On the other hand, the werewolf in FULL WOLF MOON appears to be a metaphor for human evil. Toward the end of the novel, K. L. Nappier writes: "In the blink of an eye, the human can become monster. Or find his way back." She appears to be referring to more than just the werewolf, to something more real and prevalent within human nature.

Human lives, human cultures, and geographical locations become inextricably intertwined in FULL WOLF MOON. People become bound to one another within the novel, in the same way that werewolves and their victims become bound to each other in werewolf legends.

The novel takes place in 1942 and revolves around life in a United States Japanese Internment Camp. Doris Tebbe is the civilian Central Administrator for the Tulenar Internment Camp in California. Strong in personality, cold, and rigid, she has a warm and protective feeling toward the Japanese people. Maxwell Pierce is the new Commanding Officer at the U.S. Army's Lakeside Post Assembly Center in California, the military location where Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans are delivered and processed before being placed in the Internment Camp. He has a troubled, hidden past and is the new military officer assigned to work with Doris Tebbe.

There is tension between the military and civilian leaders, between the people in charge of the Internment Camp and the oppressed Japanese people, between the old and young Japanese, and between a Navajo Indian vendor selling produce at the Internment Camp and leaders responsible for the Camp. Violence eventually erupts within the Camp. With so much friction between human groups, those in charge of solving grisly local murders do not suspect a werewolf. The reader suspects it long before the investigators within the novel do. This makes for an intensely suspenseful story.

For anyone interested in reading a well-written novel about the nature of human evil, or an incredibly suspenseful werewolf story, I highly recommend FULL WOLF MOON by K.L. Nappier.

Best Wishes,
Marilyn Peake
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