Kane

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Pub Date 11 Aug 2023 | Archive Date 30 Nov 2023

Description

Kane was a wolf until he was bitten by a man. He's now a six-foot-seven French-Canadian searching for the guy who infected him, so he can return to his pack.

Born as a creature of the forest, Kane is cunning, strong, and brave. He's also a terrible driver. And reading makes no sense to his wolf brain. So, he's hired a troubled Minneapolis dive bar worker to help him out.

But nothing could have prepared Emelda Throne for what happens when Kane steps into the moonlight. Despite what the legends say, he doesn't become some snarling werewolf. She's only seen him turn into dogs. Usually tiny dogs.

However, there is one change Emelda has never seen: a hell beast Kane won't talk about.

It's a race against time after a homicidal paramilitary group learns the value of the infected man's blood and will stop at nothing to find him first.

Can Emelda and Kane's "pack of two" find the secret to reverse Kane's transformation and get him back home?

Kane was a wolf until he was bitten by a man. He's now a six-foot-seven French-Canadian searching for the guy who infected him, so he can return to his pack.

Born as a creature of the forest, Kane...


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Kane by Dick Wybrow is another "can't put down" book from Mr Wybrow.
It seems that Kane was once a wolf but after being bitten by a strange human, he became a very tall French Canadian man - at least most of the time. He hires Emelda Thorne to be his driver and because he doesn't read well, to read for him as needed. Emelda takes the job to escape her current situation. She grew up "rough" and is stronger than she realizes.
Kane is searching for the guy that infected him with this thing that makes him human. All he really wants is to return to his pack. Kane knows that the guy was in a slightly unusual car with a bird on it. So they start visiting the classic car show circuit.
The search takes the reader on a wild ride with lots of twists and turns. Along they way, Kane and Emelda meet a variety of people, good and bad. Some of the good people help them along the way. But some of the bad people just seem to be pure evil incarnate.
Take this wild ride and enjoy the wild and very interesting ride that is a trademark of Wybrow's writing.

Thanks to Dick Wybrow, Dee Dub Publishing, and Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to review this book.

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Dick Wybrow has yet again left his comfort zone and written yet another book in a totally new genre that's excellent.
From the start of the book the story and characters build into what I hope will become another new series for the author.
If you don't usually read books with Werebeasts in them don't be put off by the tagline it's actually a story of two people with unusual pasts becoming friends.
It starts as a slow burner but does keep building.
Worth picking up to read by the pool.

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This was such a great flip to what I was expecting, it was a great idea and I loved the idea of a wolf being bitten by a man and becoming a man. The story worked well overall and it had great horror elements going on in this. Dick Wybrow does a great job in creating this with the characters.

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This book had me howling (pun intended). Kane is a wolf, just ask him, trapped in the body of a man after a human bit him. Searching for answers, with a keen sense of smell but an unfortunate driving and reading handicap, he enlists the help of the unlikely chauffeur, Emelda. Soon, the pair are off on quite an adventure -- saving one town at a time and explaining away Kane's strange behavior with "He's French-Canadian". I was lucky enough to get an ARC of this book, and am already itching to read the next in the series. Highly recommend!

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Wow!! What a great ride this book was. Kane has it all, edge of your seat action, funny antics, friendship and found family, gore and blood, and a 6’7 French Canadian who you’ll most def fall in love with ! Be warned tho, Kane…he hates cats!! It’s his only downfall (lol). Can’t wait to read more from this adventure!!

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So much fun! Interesting twists on the werewolf genre and complex, engaging characters. Hope to see a sequel!

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This must be the best book I read in 2023 so far!!

I was browsing on NetGalley, when this title and cover caught my attention. I have to admit I’ve never read anything from the author before, although now his books made it into my asap tbr.

So I read the synopsis to see what it was about, and:

Kane was a wolf until he was bitten by a man. He’s now a six-foot-seven French-Canadian searching for the guy who infected him, so he can return to his pack.

How was I supposed to resist? I loved the fact that the author thought of swapping the roles in the werewolf legend. As he put it at the end of the book, this is something that stuck with him from the aphorism in journalism: man bites a dog, a shortened version of “When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.”, a quote of uncertain origins.

So yeah, I was already invested in Kane and his quest to find his pack again.

Oh, but it gets better:

But nothing could have prepared Emelda Throne for what happens when Kane steps into the moonlight. Despite what the legends say, he doesn’t become some snarling werewolf. She’s only seen him turn into dogs. Usually tiny dogs.

Kane, not knowing how to drive and read properly, will receive help from Emelda, or Sad Girl as he calls her, a girl with a difficult past. I should point out that this book has more than one trigger warning: suicide and animal abuse being the main ones, but… well, if you don’t like gory horror, maybe skip some paragraphs. If you do like it, you’re in for a treat.

This book was so unusual, and not just because Dick Wybrow played and messed around with the Lycan trope (pun not intended). That was actually so refreshing! No – I’m also talking about the style in which it is written.

I’m glad I gave this book a fair shot, because it took me some pages before getting used to it. The style didn’t convince me, and I was really afraid I had to give up and mark as a DNF, while still burning with curiosity. Luckily it was easy to slip into the author’s narrative, and even easier to love it from the first chapters (yes, style included!).

The story is fast paced, so even if there is no info-dumping, we’re thrown right in the middle of it.

It starts at a gas station: first the story is told from a third perspective, then from Emelda’s point of view, revealing also something from her past, and finally from Kane’s. What a way to introduce the uniqueness of Kane! Already then I started to fall in love with him, but by the end of the book, I was absolutely smitten. That wouldn’t surprise him one bit, but he would remind me that he already has a wolf wife.

That being said, it’s not the only character with which you’ll form a bond – Dick Wybrow has a charismatic way of describing and outlining not just the main characters, but sidekicks too. The characters come to life, and you really wish they could.

Final Thoughts
Between mystery, creepy creatures lurking in the shadows, and a mix of witty and naive humor, the pages are fast turned. Kane was a great discovery, one of those very few books, which I can count on the fingers of one hand, that made me want to start reading it all over again before I even put it down after the last page. I know it’s supposed to be an sci-fi/horror book, but… the relationship between Kane and Sad Girl! I got watery eyes, and I’m completely invested in this story. Usually I prefer to read series all at once without having to wait years, so I was taken aback when I discovered Kane was the first book of the series Wolfwere (brilliant!). Now I couldn’t be happier, being this a book worth the wait, and of which I wouldn’t be able to get enough of.

“You and me are doing this,” I said. “You have lost your pack for now. I get that. But I’m the one helping you get back to them. So for now, we are a pack.”
Under his thick brow, Kane’s eyes widened.
“We are a pack, you and me,” I said. “We do this together.”

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