She came forward again and placed large hairy clawed hands on his chest, hunching him over with much more size and muscle than she'd had just a moment ago, and those claws sliced into his skin. Finally - a not too awful horror book! I was seriously close to giving up on the genre after a not-too-spectacular Halloween-reading season. Welcome to Big Rock, California, a small coastal town currently suffering from an outbreak of lupus venereus. Yeah. That's sexually transmitted lycanthropy. See, if...

5 out of 5 FangsMmaaannnnn, this was roller coaster ride of gore, mayhem and don't give a f***k.... No one was spared; mom, aunty, gramma or the neighbors cat. Everybody got ate up!! Bwahahhaha… I loved it! I swear, that ending took me out. I am so done.

Fun ride with a killer ending.

Had to stop at chapter 5. This writer fat shames constantly. Ridiculous. 🌟

Leave it to Garton to treat Lycanthropy like a STD. Abuse, Rape, Fat Shaming, Adultery, and plenty mo’ raping to go around. Good times.

I was on the look out for a werewolf book, a proper werewolf book where they are actually scary, like they should be. I really can't stand this modern day concept of a werewolf turning up on your doorstep with a bouquet of flowers and wagging his tail.I came across this book and decided to give it a go as it promised me violent, bloodthirsty Lycans and that's exactly what I got.The plot and design of the book is pretty traditional horror, nothing spectacular but enough to keep you reading till t...

A howling good good adult readAuthor Garton brings his own special twist to werewolves in "Ravenous" just as he did to vampires in Live Girls.In this snapping good look at "lupus verenus," don't worry about turning into a werewolf from scratches and bites. No - it takes sexual contact. So be warned that this isn't your kids' horror book. This is definitely the grown-up version.Affairs, spousal abuse and all the intrigues of a small town plague Big Rock, California but it's the plague of werewolv...

Well about half way through this truly terrifying and brutal portrayal of werewolves, I realized that while I discovered a writer who isn't afraid of gore and horror, my dreams of a fulfilling novel were not going to be realized. I give it kudos though for not romanticizing werewolves in the least and for making them into beings that would scary any vampire shitless. The sex in the book (the way that the lycanthropy virus is transmitted) was not meant for arousal and is far away from paranormal

Big Rock is a Californian town with normal people leading ordinary lives . . . and an infestation of werewolves. The nightmare begins when Emily Crane is brutally raped on her way home one night. She manages to kill her attacker, yet while she recuperates at home the rapist she murdered steps down from the gurney and walks out of the hospital. The attacks start in earnest, the virus is spreading, and Sheriff Hurley must face the reality of ravenous werewolves if he has any hope of saving his tow...

Werewolf Horror! 🐺This book was a wonderful werewolf book! Full of suspense, mystery and surprises! This is old school werewolf horror at its best! Not that milky and soppy, lovey-dovey mess that’s been cluttering up tv and the movies lately.Well, let’s move on...A woman is raped by what appears to be a man and a wolf! She manages to kill her attacker, but somehow, he disappears from the town’s morgue.More people are attacked, someone thinks it’s a wolf! But things are a lot worse.

"Her knees, Farrell-they bend the-are you looking at them? They bend the wrong f-ing way!" (I edited the f-bomb.) No. Just, no. No no no no no! Personal pet-peeve that's really got to me. But, really, NO! See? The "knee" does NOT bend backward. What sometimes gets thought of as the "knee" is the equivalent of an "ankle." I know that's a wolf and not a werewolf, but the bones are the same orientation. Lengths different, sure, but they don't bend in the opposite direction. Why, why, why would a cr...

First experience with Ray Garton.I don't usually read werewolf fiction; in fact, I can say Cycle of The Werewolf and Wolf's Hour may be the only ones I have read. And those were 20 years ago, easily.This book was extreme, much more so than I at first anticipated.Explosive violence and hardcore sex predominated, but were not gratuitous, but essential to driving the plot forward.I enjoyed the array of interesting characters, although there were a few I would have liked to have gotten to know bette...

A woman is brutally raped and her attacker is taken to the morgue. When the sheriff goes to the morgue to see if he can identify the dead assailant, the body isn't there. Soon a naked man is spotted running out of the hospital's ER doors. The sheriff sends his deputy after the man and the deputy ends up brutally murdered in a disemboweling that is determined was done by a large, unseen, wolf-like animal. At the scene of one killing, a mysterious man shoots a "killer" leaving a mysterious, half-c...

This book was brilliant, eagerly going to start the sequel bestial, if you like werewolf stories you should try this one, its so different to any other werewolf story i've read, pick it up its really good

Garton managed to tell an original vampire story with Live Girls and here he does it again with werewolves. Both novels were excellent.

Wow! What a bloody-romping-roaring-gore fest this story turned out to be! I discovered a new author to pursue as well as this was my first book by author, Ray Garton. Let the fun times begin!A little backstory for you readers:In Big Rock, California which is a small town near the coast becomes infested with werewolves which go on a rampage through the town. There are lots of characters within these pages and I will not go into details with all of them as there is just too many. The werewolves ar...

I'm not sure why this book is categorized as Romance because, while there is plenty of sex in the book, it is quite horrific, gory, about werewolves who hunger and feed ravenously, grotesquely, spreading their disease through sex. I loved it, great character development, fantastic ending, my first Ray Garton, can't wait to read Live Girls, as the movie is coming soon! While I did find a few minor editing errors, I would highly recommend this book, a different take on the 'ole werewolf tale.

The Werewolf has been with us in myth and legend, since its first appearance in "The Epic of Gilgamesh" - where Gilgamesh rejected a potential suitor due to her changing a previous mate into a wolf....the Greeks gave us the myth of King Lycon, who attempted to trick the gods into eating cooked human flesh....for his deceit, Zeus changed him into a wolf.... Leitch Ritchie gave us "The Man-Wolf" in 1831, set in the 11th century, and Catherine Crowe wrote the first werewolf story by a woman in 184

Ray Garton is one of those authors that snuck his way onto my favorite authors list. Some authors I end up actively searching out their works: Tom Piccirilli, Brian Keene, Jack Ketchum. Garton is one that I've picked up because I always remember liking his stuff and it looks interesting. And fortunately I remember right and have never been displeased with one of his books. RAVENOUS is his chance to enter the werewolf mythos and provide his vision of it.Farrell Hurley is sheriff of a small, sleep...

I am always on the look out for fabulous finds. So, imagine my surprise when I came across an older book by Ray Garton titled, “Ravenous.” How I totally missed this when it was originally published in 2008 is totally beyond me. But thanks to my trusty Kindle, I found it.“Ravenous” started out unassuming, like many novels do. However, after reading just a few pages the action kicks in and we wind up on a rollercoaster ride of emotions for the duration of the book. Initially, I started out reading...