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    Red Moon: A Novel

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    "A werewolf epic. Can't stop thinking about it."--Stephen King

    They live among us.

    They are our neighbors, our mothers, our lovers.

    They change.

    When government agents kick down Claire Forrester's front door and murder her parents, Claire realizes just how different she is.

    Patrick Gamble was nothing special until the day he got on a plane and hours later stepped off it, the only passenger left alive, a hero.

    Chase Williams has sworn to protect the people of the United States from the menace in their midst, but he is becoming the very thing he has promised to destroy.

    So far, the threat has been controlled by laws and violence and drugs. But the night of the red moon is coming, when an unrecognizable world will emerge...and the battle for humanity will begin.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateMay 7, 2013
    ISBN9781619696402
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    • 2/5
      This novel starts off with the beginnings of a war about to brew between humans and lykans. To this point, the lykans had been a somewhat repressed minority, but factions among them are looking to lash back. In this story, lycanthropy is similar to a virus, which can be blocked by medication. About halfway through, the war between human and lykan is on in full force after a massive 9/11 style attack.About the only thing that I can say that I remotely liked about this novel was the audiobook narration. The narrator had a cool, deep voice which I thought worked well. And that’s about the only thing good about it. The rest of the novel is a mess. First off, it was way too long. This novel dragged, and about halfway through I just wanted it to end, and eventually gave up on it about 85% of the way through, when my interest had waned so far that I just didn’t care what happened by the end. There wasn’t a single character that I found interesting or compelling. Claire and Patrick, the two main characters, were whiny and annoying. But the worse character by far was the president of the United States, who was hell bent on eradicating lycans even though he was one of them. Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, now does it? The plot was deadly dull. And even though this was a werewolf novel, none of the characters ever appear in werewolf form. The werewolves are always on screen in their human form. What’s the point of having a werewolf novel when you don’t see any actual werewolves? This is a novel that you will want to skip.Carl Alves - author of Blood Street
    • 3/5
      Beautiful phrasing and interesting characterization in the first half; devolved into pointless gore and flinching.
    • 3/5
      A plot overburdened with allegory that doesn't rise to the challenges it sets itself. Some lovely writing on the page, but neither plot nor characters connected with me. A lot of it felt like a plea for a screenplay adaptation to action movie.I did wonder through the course of the book what happens with werewolves around the the rest of the globe, as aside from minor mentions of nations bordering the Lycan Republic and Chinese debt, the international community may as well not exist. I was split between wondering whether alternate treatment of Lycans elsewhere was just too complicated for the book, or whether this simply echoed much of the US' terrorist/AIDS sufferer/ experience which is to simply ignore what the rest of the world thinks and does.
    • 3/5
      An enjoyable little book.Yes, I know. 530 pages? Not gargantuan, but not "little," in the truest sense of the word. But for all its heft and, yes, enjoyability, Red Moon doesn't quite go the distance to be a "big" book. Did I like it? Yes, it was enjoyable. He predicts with sad accuracy the way in which our culture is primed to value personality over substance in a presidential bid. He depicts the power and destruction of splinter groups, rigid belief systems, hysteria, and sociological madness. There are good characters here, people we love and people we hate.And maybe that's where I got hung up. There are a lot of characters here. A few are fledged out. Most are skeletal, so that the bad guys, for all their awful deeds, never feel as ominous as I wanted them to be. I didn't hate the bad guys nearly as much as I should have. So while the scope here is large, my emotional trek just didn't go the distance. Would I recommend it? If you like to explore the ideas of lycanthropy on modern day America (...and Oregon! Bonus!), then it's probably a book you'd enjoy. I liked his book The Dead Lands much more, and would probably recommend that as my preferred Percy pick.
    • 3/5
      Society is divided based on whether one is a lycan (werewolf) or not. Lycans are controlled through being forced to take mind altering drugs. Despite the attempts at government control, they are still discriminated against and subjected to constant brutality by their fellow citizens. In retaliation, an underground revolution is beginning. The lycans want to have control over their own lives. In order to gain the public's attention, they resort to violence in the form of hijacking planes or bombings at public gatherings.

      The story is told basically told through the eyes of two young people, Patrick and Claire. Patrick is the sole survivor on a flight that is hijacked by a lycan on a killing rampage. Claire is the daughter of a militant lycan who watches as her family is slaughtered by government agents. Through their stories you get the perspective from both sides.

      Usually, in novels like this, there is an obvious good guy and bad guy. That isn't the case with this book. You are shown the good and bad in both sides so you understand why the characters act and react in the way that they do so it's hard to judge who's right or wrong in the big picture. My only criticim is that I felt like the story got a bit long winded in some spots and I would have liked to see a little more interaction between Patrick and Claire.
    • 3/5
      I love when books mention places in my neck of the woods! Petaluma and Dogtown - woot woot!As for the story, it was a mixed bag for me. Humans and lycans and conflict - oh my! And it begins wonderfully! I really liked the opening with the man in the airport and then on the plane! Top notch writing! But I think it peaked then, and my attention, which was riveted, began to slowly, but surely, wane. I also wasn't sure about the whole lycan/Muslim/Islam thing. It seemed an uncomfortable connection. Are Muslim/Islam people like werewolves? Or is it more of a "man's inhumanity to man"(or werewolf) thing? Very treacherous waters, I thought. But it is a good read, and if you like werewolves, I think you'll be very happy!
    • 3/5
      I generally stay away from vampire/werewolf/zombie books, but when I received this book from The Nervous Breakdown book club, I decided to give it a try. For the first three-quarters of the book, I was stunned by the book's bold audacity and literary qualities. The world that Percy created was creepy, but all too familiar, and I loved it. Unfortunately, just before I read the last part, I had to set it aside for a week. When I came back to it, the spell had been broken, and the final section didn't enthrall me nearly as much as the first parts. The book took an understandable turn, but it was less surprising and interesting than the early parts.
    • 3/5
      his has been getting a lot of buzz, so I gave it a try since it's also set in Oregon and by an Oregon author. It's a genre bending novel I'd call predominately horror, but it's also an unsubtle political allegory featuring lycanthropes and an apocalyptic read. Mostly a page turner, but it tries to do a bit too much. A good recommendation for fans of The Stand or The Passage. It reminds me of Kit Whitfield's Benighted in its exploration of racism, politics, and what it means to be human, but it's less creative in its approach and reflects history and current events too closely, I think.In Red Moon, lycanthropes have always been among us, and are discriminated against in the U.S. in much the same fashion as we treat any "other" group now. Medication keeps the lycanthropy at bay, but also has negative side effects. Rebel lycanthropes commit terrorist acts; there's a lycanthrope homeland as well that the U.S. is coveting & menacing for its natural resources. Young Patrick has boarded a plane to Portland, but a lycanthrope terrorist aboard changes and slaughters everyone but him - he plays dead under a dead body and survives. Young Claire Forrester is a lycanthrope living in a pleasant typical middle class family, until the government raids her house and slaughters her family, whereupon she goes on the run and begins to learn about her family's revolutionary past. These two characters make their way toward each other through a fun-house version of Oregon (with the occasional real political figure thrown in - poor Wyden), the northwest, and America
    • 5/5
      Red MoonByBenjamin PercyMy " in a nutshell" summary...Scary stuff...weird stuff...yes...and a lycan revolution! Yikes!My thoughts after reading this book...Tons of stuff going on in this book...and most of it was really scary! Humans live with Lycans...Lycans live with humans. There is an uprising and everything is in turmoil...it's suspense filled, frightening and long. Parts of it are really exciting...parts are truly scary...parts are sad. I think it was a truly good book...I am just not sure I should have read it.It's different enough to have kept my attention but I was glad when I was done. Whew!
    • 4/5
      This book is so different from any werewolf stories I've read. You could almost substitute a culture or religion (one that has regular and then fanatical terrorist members). Also, much of the ww population sits on land with a highly desired resource. The government is involved and little wars snowball making the US a war-torn third world country. It will definitely leave you thinking long after you finish it.
    • 2/5
      Red Moon by Benjamin Percy is truly an epic tale revolving around the battles between humans and lycans, who are werewolf like creatures. With an opening that brings 9/11 vividly to mind, we are thrust into an alternative reality that exchanges modern terrorists for these lycans. In this world these creatures have been around for centuries becoming infected and passing the disease through the exchange of body fluids. Many lycans have settled in the Lupine Republic, an area in northern Scandinavia, but because of the discovery of valuable uranium the Republic is currently under American military occupation. There are also lycans living in America, feared, misunderstood and forced to medicate themselves with a mind-numbing drug. Some lycans hide their existence and try to blend into society, and a few, become radical terrorists.The author has attempted an allegory that contrasts these violent confrontations between werewolf and humans with the political and cultural clashes that confront us in today’s world. Unfortunately this concept did not work for me. I was uncomfortable with the idea of comparing Muslims with werewolves, and his inclusion of every social and political problem that we face today seemed heavy handed and overly ambitious. Also the sheer size of this story and it’s many plot lines meant that character development was neglected, creating flat figures on an over-painted background. Personally I think this would have worked much better if it had been allowed to evolve into a trilogy which would have given the author room for his expansive story and to still breathe life into his characters.Red Moon does have plenty of violence and bloodletting which one would expect in a werewolf story, but there were simply too many flaws to overlook making this disjointed book a disappointment.
    • 3/5
      I was very excited about this one when I was sent a lovely big hardback to review. Everything I've read about this suggested a werewolf apocalypse and I was all over it. It took a long time to get into though as the writing style is not something I enjoyed in the beginning. It's very strange. I eventually stopped noticing it (as much) and made my peace with it but now that I'm finished I'm not sure what to think overall. It's well written and it's interesting and it does have werewolves (lycans) in it but I didn't really get the apocalypse that I was looking forward to so I'm a bit disappointed.

      I've seen this compared to The Twelve by Justin Cronin and that should have rung warning bells for me as I struggled to get through that one too.

      The Red Moon of the title only made one appearance on page 400-ish and the end of the world it heralded didn't really happen. At least, not in a way that conforms to my idea of 'end of the world'.

      'Political Allegory' are words that seem to be bandied about in the reviews I've seen here and other sites and that's probably closest to what this is all about, it just has some of the cast stricken with the lycan virus. I'm not big on 'Political' so maybe that's why I didn't like it more. I'm not sure...

      I'm sure a lot of readers will rave about this but unfortunately I'm not one of them.



    • 4/5
      audiobook from the library. Very serviceable werewolf thriller. Infection is through a prion disease, which is both contagious and genetically inherited. All infected people are treated like dangerous second-class citizens, regardless of whether they are taking anti-werewolf medication or not. This leads to a rebellion of a few werewolves which affects everyone. The book probably would have been better as a trilogy. It is very long and there are two significant time jumps (6 months; 3 years). The author is an EXCELLENT narrator.
    • 1/5
      Interesting premise, but I couldn't connect with any of the characters and I wasn't as engaged as I'd like to be. DNF.
    • 4/5
      Warning: spoilers. A werewolf (ahem . . . lycan) thriller set in present day America, "red Moon" takes a flimsy premise and turns it into an engaging metaphor for both the war on terror and AIDS. The first 100 pages don't help much in the way of explaining what's going on ("Wait, the Feds are killing citizens who are peaceful law abiding werewolves? No, hold on, werewolf activists with Facebook pages?"), but it's such a fast paced, punchy book, when the info dump finally comes, you're almost taken in by the whole hare brained premise. It's a tribute to Mr. Percy that he can take such a far fetched premise and make a well written interesting page turner out of it.
    • 2/5
      Red Moon is a horror novel with werewolves (lycans). Lycans are an obvious symbol for terrorists and terrorism and race and racism and a bunch of other -isms you can probably work out for yourself. This correlation is so obvious that it's hardly worth mentioning, but the ways the obvious drives the story are at the core of the book's flaws and that's why I mention it.About two-thirds of Red Moon is a decent little story about two teenagers from different worlds taking different paths, but moving alongside each other. Their meeting and friendship are unlikely, but this drives the story. There is peril of the Romeo and Juliet kind as both pox their houses and fall into a love that ends in predictable disaster. It's not a great or original story, but it was interesting enough to keep me reading.Sadly, the last third of the book begins with a terrorist attack that decimates much of the US and its dystopian aftermath. This plot line doesn't have to be terrible, but it is in Mr. Percy's execution as he takes a story that is intimate within the whole of its world into one that is more like a disaster-thriller - all action, no characters. I kept wanting Shelley Winters to appear to lighten the load as if America had become an overgrown Poseidon Adventure.Mr. Percy has written what is intended to be a serious book - rising above its genre to tell us an allegory about hate and the injustices that are done because of it - and that's the problem. The seriousness of the literary attempt gets in the way of the story. The author's choices are painfully obvious ones and even the naming of the werewolves as Lycans is unoriginal (see also the Underworld movies). A focus on style over substance makes this book less successful than it might have been. Read the first two-thirds and skip the rest.
    • 3/5
      Red Moon seemed to be trying to be too much at once.1. It tried to be a morality tale, a great metaphor full of symbolism. Lycanthropes serve as the nascent outsiders in this story, the feared, the evil, the blight that everyone else has to come to terms with, either by tolerance or by force. Percy does a good job of scientifically breaking down the werewolf myth, explaining it as a disease (transmitted by blood), and creating an entire universe where it can be controlled by medication (with undesirable side effects to the patient). Naturally, a culture clash occurs between those Lycans who want to try to live peacefully with the normal humans, and those who want to live freely and do as they please, and (of course) the normal humans. A potentially great political metaphor arises from this setting, where normal Americans struggle against a people they don't understand (i.e., Muslims) who sometimes attack us (e.g., crashing planes) sometimes as part of our own meddling undoing (there is at least one very direct reference to the Iran-Contra affair and countless references to our occupancy of Iraq). But at the same time, these outsiders are treated like AIDS patients. The very nature of the disease and how it is kept in check by medication and spread by blood contaminates (probably a bad word) the political symbolism and turns it into a very different social commentary. I think by the very nature of world Percy has constructed, he created conflicting metaphors that simply can't exist together. Religious extremism is not spread like a virus, and a virus doesn't cause people to rise up and attack a nation. As I was reading, I kept trying to make sense of the references in my mind, and they constantly fell down. I think Percy would have been better off if he had abandoned them early on and just wrote a good story. Or altered the "science" of his backstory so he could focus on one metaphor or the other.2. It tried to be a horror/thriller. And it failed here too, primarily because it spent too much time trying to be two different kinds of allegories at the same time it was trying to entertain and thrill. Seriously, there's nothing wrong with trying to do both at once, but since the metaphor/symbolism part was already failing, and Percy was clearly struggling to maintain that piece, there doesn't seem to be much left to support the sheer entertainment factor. Choices he made to propel the symbolism forward were jarring to the entertainment factor of the story itself. Characters were not fully developed. Some appeared/disappeared from/into thin air. Plot lines were abandoned. Others were wrapped up poorly. The shift in time periods between the major sections of the book caused building momentum to suddenly come to a crashing halt, especially after the first section, where I would have loved to follow the path of Patrick and Claire closer and further. I think Percy did us all a great injustice when he pulled those two apart for (spoiler alert) nearly the rest of the entire novel. And yet, he so clearly wanted this to be a fun novel. If not he wouldn't have included so many sensationalist scenes for no other purpose than to entertain.Sadly, Red Moon failed to hit either target. That said, it was not an un-entertaining book overall. It had its moments. Plus it was aptly written. Percy has some skill constructing a sentence, that's for sure. Given the right subject matter, I think he will turn out a great novel one day. This just wasn't it.P.S. If anybody else listened to the audio version of this book, as read by the author, I'd love to hear your thoughts on his deep, gravelly voice. What the hell, right? Does anybody really sound like that, or did they modulate his voice down an octave for some sort of dramatic effect? I swear as I was listening to it (and this is dating myself) I felt like I was back in my youth, walkman in hand, as the batteries were dying down and the tape wheel started spinning slower and slower and the songs started playing like they were records spinning at the wrong speed.P.P.S. Note to self, don't ever buy a book again simply because John Irving has a quote on the back, and really, John, what the heck are you doing these days?
    • 4/5
      This is a powerfully written political rant literally in wolf's clothing. Well, werewolf's (more correctly: lupine) clothing. This may sound ridiculous, but this is a very serious book about culture, racism, violence, war, protest and pretty much everything political. Plus medical advances and experimentation, the role of drugs in a community, and layers upon layers of deceptions and machinations. It's bloody, terrifying, full of action and it will keep you up at night trying to figure where the story will go next. In short, this book is really kind of brilliant and very, very much worth the read. It's a treasure chest of poignant observations offered in a fictionalized, blood drenched way. I'm deeply impressed with Benjamin Percy, and I am eager to see more from him in the future.
    • 3/5
      I generally stay away from vampire/werewolf/zombie books, but when I received this book from The Nervous Breakdown book club, I decided to give it a try. For the first three-quarters of the book, I was stunned by the book's bold audacity and literary qualities. The world that Percy created was creepy, but all too familiar, and I loved it. Unfortunately, just before I read the last part, I had to set it aside for a week. When I came back to it, the spell had been broken, and the final section didn't enthrall me nearly as much as the first parts. The book took an understandable turn, but it was less surprising and interesting than the early parts.
    • 1/5
      A targeted terrorist attack takes place on planes across the US airspace. Fear and misunderstanding cause segregation across the US. A war begins. A war doesn’t end. And then, there's the werewolves...

      Yes, you read correctly. Werewolves, or lycans, as Percy refers to them. When I picked this up, I really just wanted a mostly entertaining--and sometimes smart--werewolf novel. Something like what Zone One did with zombies. Instead I think this was too smack-in-the-face allegorical for me. Maybe if it was a bit more elegantly done, I would have enjoyed it more.

      But hey, if you're in the need for a werewolf book about terrorism, 9/11, a never ending war, racism, duality, and inevitably, humanity, give this a read. I'm just not sure anything new is being said via the werewolf lens. Often the lycan felt too much like a vehicle to get from one point to another, and not the story itself. But then again, maybe that was the point and I just wasn't into it.
    • 4/5
      Inside this chunkster of a werewolf novel are at least two shorter novels trying to get out… Imagine a post 9/11 America into which a new threat has emerged to fuel a nation’s paranoia. It’s the age of the werewolf, or Lycans, as Percy dubs them.From the opening chapters in which a Lycan manages to board a plane, transform and kill all the passengers bar one, there’s no doubting that they are far nastier than the teen-wolves of the Twilight Saga. These werewolves only need anger/fear to be able to transform, and they leave a trail of gruesomely mutilated corpses … But not all of them. One of the central threads of this multi-layered novel is a central high-school romance between, Patrick, the teenager who survived the plane crash and becomes a celebrity, manages to fall for Claire, a Lycan, who is daughter of two former Lycan activists. This is complicated by Patrick’s father being in the Marines abroad guarding uranium mines which are under Lycan threat.In another thread, the loudmouthed, beer-swilling, womanising, and fiercely anti-Lycan state Governor is being groomed to run for the presidency. He’s rather a puppet for his closest advisor who pulls his strings, but when something happens to him it becomes a whole new ball game.Linking these two main stories are the Lycan, and anti-Lycan activists, and to a lesser extent, Neal, a doctor researching a vaccine for the Lobos virus, who was a friend of Patrick’s father.Interestingly, Percy’s take on the werewolf genre is firmly grounded in the real world rather than the paranormal which does add a genuinely different feel to this novel. Lycans are infected with a prion-based virus (like AIDS, CJD, Mad cow), caught through blood or sexual contact. The threat of being infected rather than being devoured drives paranoia, as the Government takes steps to further and further restrict the lives of sufferers, ghettoising them. As the Lycans begin to take things into their own hands, the government quickly becomes militarised and we’re into dystopian territory.Given that Patrick and Claire’s gritty romance is largely separate from the socio-political Governor’s tale, I felt the two could have been told in companion volumes, which would give more pace. Intertwining them kept slowing things down just as they were getting really interesting. I can see the value of having the two threads together, but it made for a long read at 530 dense pages. Remembering who was who in the Lycan and anti-Lycan groups also got a little complex towards the end also as the cast-list expanded.I did like the author’s new approach of taking the paranormal out of lycanthropy though, and thus creating a grisly and gritty horror-thriller of speculative fiction.
    • 5/5
      Book Info: Genre: Urban FantasyReading Level: AdultRecommended for: Those who enjoy a very well-told story, political metaphors, werewolves, like to think about current eventsBook Available: May 7, 2013 in hardcover and Kindle formats, Audio CD and AudibleTrigger Warnings: murder, sexual assault, rape, sexual slavery, hate crimes, terroristic acts, cannibalism Animal Abuse: a minor character is reported to have stomped a puppy to death; hunting by human and lycan, including deer, goat, and possibly a cat (I will point out that I don't have a problem with hunting for meat, but I do have a problem with trophy hunting in which only the antlers are taken, and one event is trophy hunting); deer with locked antlers—one is shot, other left locked to dead deer and stuckMy Thoughts: Like The Last Werewolf (review linked here where formatting allowed), this book has absolutely beautiful writing about a really ugly situation. For example:“... he feels the darkness of the grave pressing around the fire and infecting his vision so that there seems to be no separation between the living and the dead, a child born with a mud wasp's nest for a heart and its eyes already pocketed with dust, ready to be clapped into a box and dropped down a hole.”Just beautiful writing! While very transparently a metaphor—for Muslims and the fear of Islamic terrorism, and racial segregation, and the sort of discrimination that those with AIDS have to deal with, for almost any sort of hot-button discrimination/segregation topic of which you can think—the lycans in this book are also a very distinct people, once segregated (as people of color once were) but now integrated—as long as certain conditions are met. Being drugged. Not transforming. Reporting their existence and being on a database... You see the idea forming. As one of the characters discovers, “Plagues don't just kill people—and that's what lobos is, a plague—they kill humanity.” In the end, that is mostly what this book is about. It is about how hatred causes people to split when they should work together, it is about how people let their fear take over rather than truly seeking a solution, rather than realizing that people are people and need to be taken at individual, face value.This story is told from several different people's point of view. As a result, each section, each character, speaks and is written in a slightly different voice, which is a very impressive bit of storytelling. The most beautiful, poetic voice is Patrick's, interestingly. Chase is sort of crude and extremely self-involved. Claire is fairly matter-of-fact, but emotional. Miriam is a survivor, but also someone who notices things around her. It's really very well done and I was very impressed with the author's ability to so completely switch his style for each character. The book is primarily in present tense, and as such could have been a real mess, but the author does a great job pulling it off. It's also gives the reader details from both sides of the issue, and the author also does a great job of providing a sympathetic view for both sides, which is very tricky with something that is as politically charged as this. There are times you feel disgust for the lycans, and there are times you feel disgust for the humans, and then you realize that it all has a pattern. In the end, there is good and bad on each side, and the majority of people simply want to be left along to go on with their lives. I think a lot of people will be frustrated over this lack of any particular person to hate or love, since so many instances of actions are ambiguous, or could be seen from different points of view. While it is the actions of the Resistance that cause the most horrible things, at the same time you can sort of see their point of view—they are, after all, being treated like second-class citizens based upon the fact that they have an illness that is not their fault. This doesn't excuse their actions in my mind—after all, there is never an excuse to kill innocent people to make a point—but it makes it more difficult to hate them. The actions of the government make me crazy, because it's the same old thing—desperately do something, even if that something will not make a lick of difference and will probably, in fact, only make things worse, like taking away protected status, forcing lycans into an open registry, and other things that will do nothing but tick off the law-abiding citizens that are now being scapegoated (sort of like the modern situation with gun control).This is an ARC, an unproofed galley, so I hope someone will find this consistent mistake I noticed, which was “Constantine wire”. The term they were looking for was concertina wire. As nearly as I can tell, “Constantine” wire is a modern “invention” caused by misunderstanding and people trying to claim that no, it's a thing... but the thing it describes, in the short note on Wiki, is barbed wire, as opposed to razor wire, which is concertina wire, which is what the military uses. Also, the blurb is a bit misleading, as it makes it sound as though some external event, almost supernatural in nature (the so-called Red Moon) is what will cause people to go crazy, but in fact this is not the case.In the end, this was an often very difficult book to read. Because it is so dense, because there are so many things going on, because it is so densely politically metaphorical, because there is no real hero or villain in the end, I imagine there will be a lot of people who find the book frustrating and difficult. That said, I think it is a very worthwhile topic, a very well-done piece of writing, and a very important story for people to read. My personal enjoyment was around three stars, but the writing and style is easily 5 stars, and that is how I will rate this one, because it is worth it. Check it out.Disclosure: I received a paperback ARC/Galley from the Amazon Vine program in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.Synopsis: They live among us.They are our neighbors, our mothers, our lovers.They change.When government agents kick down Claire Forrester's front door and murder her parents, Claire realizes just how different she is. Patrick Gamble was nothing special until the day he got on a plane and hours later stepped off it, the only passenger left alive, a hero. Chase Williams has sworn to protect the people of the United States from the menace in their midst, but he is becoming the very thing he has promised to destroy. So far, the threat has been controlled by laws and violence and drugs. But the night of the red moon is coming, when an unrecognizable world will emerge... and the battle for humanity will begin.