Usually, I enjoy anything written by Tanith Lee because she is an excellent writer with a talent for crafting stories and developing characterss. This book I found confusing and the characters uninteresting. Rarely will I not finish reading a book because I want to know how it ends. This book I stopped before completing half of the book with no interest in the ending.
Although I didn't enjoy the book or the characters other readers who prefer complex and convoluted plots with unsympathetic characters may have a different opinion.
PoetPat
A dark fantasy, this is the tale of Daniel who is possessed by a wolf-like shape imprisoned in a diamond given to him by a strange man. Daniel, who killed his father for beating his mother, left home as his mother bade. He roams working whenever he can until he meets the stranger. In possession of the diamond he, in turn, finds himself possessed becoming a creature of the night that comes alive on the three nights of the full moon. As this beast he does not recall that he is human, killing at random those who roam about at night. He returns home and his mother tells him that the beast is the essence of the evil each person holds in his heart. When she dies, he loses the portion of his humanity. Yet he is drawn to the enigmatic and self-centered lovely Laura, another man's wife. Her husband, Hyperion, loves Laura with all her heart as well as Daniel. The story spirals to an unexpected end.
