Wolf Moon Rising

There's a whole lot going on in this book and that may be its main problem. There's just too much going on.

David, 16, is in love with a girl named Jackie.

Jackie is partially Angelique. (It's sort of complicated)

Barnabas gets savaged by a wolf.

Julia ends up a vampire.

The portrait of Quentin that keeps him young is destroyed, painted anew, unsigned, and worked with.

A Dusenberg car takes David and Jackie back to 1929. (No explanation how, of course.)

We find out about how nasty one of the Collins was back then.

A woman named Antoinette falls under Barnabas' power.

Massive destruction of a greenhouse.

Feds and thugs.

An insane artist.

A wild Liz.

A Blair that is a mad scientist who is into vivisection.

And that's not all. I think you can see that there is just too much going on. I think a book about Quentin's origin and past could have been doing including the 1929 portion of this book and the hunt for the artwork but Blair and Julia both could have easily been dropped. So could Antoinette. Even David and Jackie could have been dropped. Those things put together could have made a separate book.