Okay, I mentioned McCammon in the title, but it is a bit of an unfair comparison. Wolf's Hour was a medium to long Novel, and Wehrwolf is a long short story, told from the other side of the conflict.
Katsu populates the narrative with (mostly) sympathetic characters. From any other author I would have cried foul for including German folks in a positive manner toward the end of WWII.
The character in this tale are civilians, terrified of what the advancing Allied Forces are going to do when they arrive in their peaceful village. The hero is a husband and father whose information regarding the war is filtered through the news sources of Nazi Germany. I was terrified on his behalf for the attrocities he feared. His only concern was for the safety of his family. As a father I empathized with his concerns.
Katsu conveys the fear of the villagers so well in this story. The Reich is falling and soon it may very well be every man for himself... Unless the hero chooses to join a pack of Lycanthropes.
His conflict is conveyed beautifully. I have never felt such empathy for a German during the conflict of WWII.
The depictions of the transformations and the rules of order for the change were like nothing I have ever seen.
This is an amazing story and had me questioning my beliefs of the German citizenry during the conflict. Katsu's background serves her well relaying historical events, in context, and from an alternate perspective from anything I've read before. This is one of those books I recommend everyone reads. It had me staring into my Kindle far too far into the night, every night, until I finished.
Thank you, Alma Katsu. This is a masterpiece.
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An amazing and deep story
This was a short read that was suggest by Amazon through my Kindle, and since it's an author I love...why not? And it's werewolves. The Alma Katsu stories I've read so far have been absolutely amazing twists to historic events and this one is no exception despite being only 78 pages. It is 1945 in a small German farm village. Uwe didn't go to fight, he stay home with his wife and young daughter, being the only man left in his family. It's a very tense time. Most of the people don't agree with their current government's policies, but politics are for city folk and surely the rumors of camps and other violence have been exaggerated. When Hans, a young man who isn't well liked in the village, returns from the front, everyone thinks he has ran from the fighting to hide. They have more important things to worry about than a cowardly man. There are sightings of strange soldiers in the woods nearby. Are they Russian soilders? That would be bad. Hans convinced several other men to form up with him to patrol and keep the village safe. Eventually a reluctant Uwe agrees to join up too, he has his wife and young daughter to think of. But what is Hans really up to?
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