Canyons

by P.D. Cacek

Book Overview

Picture this: you're riding the bus home from work, with the very first newspaper article every published under your byline clutched in your hot little hand, when a coked-up idiot attempts to hold up... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812545346
• ISBN13: 9780812545340
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

canyons

I was given canyons as a gift from a friend , I found it it wonderfull, a get away from the typical format of the typical wolves or wearwolfe story. and I read more than the norm..... once you get past the the first sec . for Ill say its slow it get realy good..... mel from wash

Clever and gruesome!

Cacek had me totally enthralled with this witty and very violentwerewolf "romance". C.K. Moselle a tabloid reporter finds herselfin one of her ridiculous stories when she is saved from being shot to death by drug-up juvenile by a werewolf!After her lycanthrope savior kills her attacker and flees, C.K. called Cat and her photographer,Ed; they discover that Denver is the battleground between two competing werewolf clans and one of them is terroizing Denver with some brutal murders; and she is the prize! Cacek's gripping horror novel slides from satirizing the sleazy tabloid business to gothic romance between Cat and her werewolf lover Lucius to full-blown graphic horror as the author describes the werewolf attacks in gruesome detail.The dialogue was especially funny as Cat sees her life become more like one of stories and she imagines the headlines about it! the characters also were great like noble Lucius as he tries to fight his attraction to Cat while protecting his Clan and clearing his name from the brutal murders committed by the rival werewolves!Ed-Cat's cynical photographer friend a hilarious dirty old man with a few secrets of his own!Scooter, Lucius crippled twin brother who glides from sarcasm to self-pity. Fans of Laurell hamilton (like I am)is delicious brew of witty dialogue, gruesome gory and steamy romance!

Good, but more gruesome than it needed to be

The story reminded me a little of the old Kolchak: The Night Stalker TV series, with its tabloid journal background and the quirky tone and characters. Denver is well-drawn and the concept of the decrepit warehouse district of Lower Downtown harboring a renegade werewolf pack makes for creepy reading. The concept of one of Denver's oldest families being yet another werewolf clan was less well-drawn, however, though still an interesting concept.This being a novel about the beast in all of us, feeding time inevitably comes around, but there was no reason for the level of detail Cacek brought to the violence. Still, it's a good love story with a lot of action, and the lingering fear that she plants in your mind will keep you away from warehouse districts after dark.

canyons

This is not your ordinary werewolf book. Using the tabloid papers as focal point for the heroine, the author presents a number of twists and turns that are quite believable. Her characters are well-developed, especially Cat Moselle. Though I found parts of the book a little too graphic for my taste, overall it delivered a satisfying read. From the ending I assume there will be more books about Cat to come.

Excellent horror novel

If it looks and acts like a wolf pack hunting humans, it can only be a werewolf brood settling near Denver. Already residing in the Mile High City is the leader of another werewolf pack Lucius. He tries to act as human as possible. He lives in an apartment, works as a bartender, and dates female Homo Sapiens. He hides his heritage in order to protect his pack. However, his identity is in danger of exposure when he saves a woman's life from a gangbanger.He picks the worst person to save, at least from a werewolf perspective as Cathy "Cat" Mosell works for the Quest, a tabloid so sleazy that its peers avoid it. She saw his transformation from man to wolf and reports her up close and personal observation to her editor. He runs a front-page expose claiming a dangerous werewolf runs loose in the city. The newly arrived werewolves are vermin challenging Lucius' more civilized crowd. With half the city already after them and now a deadly rival wanting supremacy, Lucius seems to have too much to deal with yet still wants Cat as his own.This horror story looks deeply inside the heart, mind, and soul of a werewolf in such an in depth manner that readers will believe that this novel is a character study. The audience learns how the lycanthrope think and feel especially about their own species and their natural enemy humanity. In this wonderfully written work of fiction, P.D Cacek brings credence to the existence of lycanthropic creatures by making CANYONS a howling successful look at "reality."Harriet Klausner