This is a book by an author I've never read before. I picked it up because I do love a good werewolf tale. This is her first novel. Not that that means anything.
-->Clare has just found out that her mum is a werewolf. And so is she. And a bunch of other women, including one crazed blood-thirsty were that’s killing off the townsfolk. So when Clare’s mum decides to investigate the single wolf, things start to get a bit nasty, and Clare is forced to involve more people than she thought.
This book had a really promising idea to it. Female main character (not exactly strong, a little bratty), overbearing artist mother (annoyingly strict), the clued in yet clueless bimbo friend, and the gorgeous boyfriend who had no idea what was going on, but was still inadvertently supportive. Wait... there’s the problem. The characters were all a little too...normal? Plain? They had nothing interesting about them, nothing to make me want to know more about them. To add to that, it was obvious from the beginning who the “lone wolf” was. The only thing that might make the reader think otherwise is the hippie au pair that Clare’s mother has babysitting Clare while she’s away on glamorous photography jobs in Dubai.
There were a lot of scenes in here that at first seemed unnecessary, but in hindsight, they were meant to build understanding of relationships. These mostly consisted of Clare on the phone to her chit-chatting best friend, Clare back-talking to her military mum, Clare being shy with her hot boyfriend. Not very drawing. The only scenes that really caught my interest were the descriptions of Clare and her pack morphing into wolves and fighting as wolves. However, this doesn’t make up for the juvenile writing style on either side of the ‘morphing’ passages. It really needed something more than a few good fight scenes.
I was really disappointed with this one, and what’s worse is that I was really looking forward to reading it. Still, a book about werewolves it is. I recommend it for fans of Alyxandra Harvey.
Yay! Welcome to review blogging! You have great style. May I suggest a few things though? It's good to have pictures of the book covers up and probably the release dates. Gives them something to look at/helps the readers know what the book looks like, and the release date is just helpful to know if it's an old or upcoming/new book. ^^;;. The font is a bit too dark. Maybe a tad lighter?
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