By Blood We Live

'Reading a book is a dangerous thing, ' says Remshi, the protagonist of By Blood We Live . . . [And] By Blood We Live really does feel sort of dangerous, in a way that genre horror almost never does . . . When books are as good as Duncan's, we can drink them in greedily, as Remshi does, and still live with ourselves. --Terrence Rafferty, New York Times Book Review Glen Duncan is back at the top of his game with By Blood We Live . . . [The novel] elevates the lurid pleasures of a straightforward, if unconventional, horror story by means of Duncan's elegant, even rapturous prose and his knowledge of art and literature . . . Stylish. -- Washington Post Duncan's werewolf trilogy is vigorous, funny, sexy and necessary at a time when so much genre fiction is drowning in melancholy vampires and self-serious teen dystopias. The books share a great deal more DNA with James Bond and the John Landis classic An American Werewolf in London. -- Kirkus Reviews Where was an educated, mature adult supposed to turn for his own vampires v. werewolves fix? Enter Glen Duncan . . . The series offer[s] two rarified qualities that the Gothic genre often lacks: exquisite writing and a refined literary sensibility. -- Richard Times-Dispatch By Blood We Live is a page-turner with heft. A smart, fast yet thoughtful read. There are plenty of plot twists if that is what you are after, but much of the fun is in the way it applies literary tricks to genre tropes. That and the bone-crunching and skin-tingling physicality of the writing . . . Storytelling to chill the blood. -- Sunday Herald (Scotland) Once more, Duncan's elegant, striking prose is the star in his enthralling conclusion to the Last Werewolf trilogy . . . There are plenty of battles, blood, and sexy escapades; but the real treat continues to be Duncan's beautifully twisted way with language and the profound thesis he poses about humanity. Defiant and dramatic to the las