The fol­low­ing is a TBR Day review by fel­low reader Sonia. Danc­ing with Were­wolves by Car­ole Nel­son Dou­glas is copy­right 2007 and is avail­able in paper­back and ebook at your favorite retailer.

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Dancing with Werewolves by Carole Nelson DouglasThis month I read and fin­ished Danc­ing With Were­wolves: Delilah Street, Para­nor­mal Inves­ti­ga­tor by Car­ole Nel­son Dou­glas. Danc­ing With Were­wolves is a para­nor­mal with vam­pires and were­wolves and weather witches. This book has been sit­ting on my TBR pile for months.. Dur­ing this time, I have picked it up, read a page and put it down again. I never got past the first cou­ple pages. This, I sus­pect, has to do with the pro­logue and the first cou­ple chap­ters. Not that it is a bad pro­logue, but it is just that I dis­like pro­logues. This par­tic­u­lar pro­logue explains some of the back­ground, how vamps and were­wolves and witches were dis­cov­ered in the year 2000. In any case, Delilah – or Del, as she is called – is a TV reporter. The first few chap­ters are slow.

In the open­ing scene, she is report­ing the mur­der of cows from a Kansas corn­field. The real story doesn’t start until she gets to Las Vegas. She leaves her job and goes there because of events in the first few chap­ters, but con­sid­er­ing how much I dis­liked those first few chap­ters, she could have just started the story in Las Vegas. Del has an annoy­ing habit of ref­er­enc­ing peo­ple and movies I have never heard of (for exam­ple, who is George M. Cohan?) but I sup­pose it is alright because that is part of who she is; it is a part of her that comes out most visu­ally in her vin­tage clothes. Any­way, I am glad I didn’t stop read­ing as I was tempted to because the story gets lots bet­ter some­where around the mid­dle of the book.

There are lots of inter­est­ing char­ac­ters – a mys­te­ri­ous albino rocker, ex-FBI agent who douses for bod­ies, a crea­ture called (named by Del, who knows what his real name is?) Quick­sil­ver, Cin­Sims (short for Cin­ema Sim­u­lacrum), the dead daugh­ter of a were­wolf mob­ster. There is a par­tic­u­larly intrigu­ing piece of sil­ver jew­elry given to her by the rocker. It keeps chang­ing from col­lars to neck­laces to bracelets to anklets to keys and it helps her get away from var­i­ous vam­pires and were­wolves. Despite the rather dubi­ous begin­ning, by the end it was very interesting.