Lonely Werewolf Girl

by Martin Millar

Book Overview

The hard-edged, hilarious, and utterly believable first entry in a trilogy featuring troubled teenage werewolf Kalix MacRinnalch introduces readers to a world where werewolves--friendly werewolves, fashionista werewolves, cross-dressing werewolves, werewolves of every sort--walk among us.

Teenage werewolf Kalix MacRinnalch is being pursued through the streets of London by murderous hunters. She could certainly use a little help right...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979663660
• ISBN13: 9780979663666
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Soft Skull
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

Please tell me this is a series!!!!

I LOVE this book. I was literally laughing aloud while reading, which I rarely do with a book. The characters are so believable, the plot feels like a zany roller coaster, and there is an underlying sense of reality to situations that should not be real. Usually a book this poorly edited would put me off, but I could not put this book down. I became so emotionally involved with the characters that I felt like a bitter ex-girlfriend when it ended. PLEASE tell me that this will be turned into a series. I need my Thrix-fix!

Good Writing, Bad Editing

This is one of the best books I've read this year. It's also the book with the worst editing I have ever seen. The plot is wild and funny. The daughter of a werewolf Thane is being hunted by both her family (she tried to kill her father and quite nearly succeeded) and a guild of werewolf hunters. Worse, she battles her anxiety. Lonely Werewolf Girl has many, many characters. Sometimes it's difficult to keep track of them all. I enjoyed this book on many levels. I didn't finish this book quickly, not because it wasn't good, but the short chapters which jumped from character and place and did all sorts of funny acrobats which taxed my poor concentration. This was a good thing. I dragged the pleasure on for three days as opposed to finishing it in one swallow. Millar, being at least as talented as Gaiman and Pratchett, would do himself well to find another editor. Or maybe the editor would do him or herself well by hiring a high school student to proof read the final draft before sending it to print. Obviously no human read the final draft, and any reasonably literary high schooler could do better than Microsoft Word at spelling and grammar. The sloppy editing did this writing wrong. Regardless, I give this book a five. Reviews are generally seen as a reflection of the writer and not the editor. The writing was excellent.

READ THIS BOOK!!!!

I bought this book at my local bookstore.I was looking for a new book and the cover jumped out at me.It turned out to be one of the best books I have ever read.While it is not a dark horor story,there are great battles,fantastic characterization,and rivalry and back stabbing among werewolf clans. Kalix is the main character of the story.She is an outcast from her werewolf clan for past crimes against her king.Now she is a skinny,homeless,malnourished werewolf girl living on the streets.She is being hunted by her clan who have orders to bring her back to face trial.She is both hated and feared by her clan because she is a fierce fighter when she is overcome by her battle lust.She trusts no one but her self,but grudgingly is befriended by a couple of roommates who take her in and help her. One of her sisters is a werewolf fashion designer who has a friend that is an other-worldly-fire-elemental-warrior queen with a fashion fetish. There are twin werewolf sisters who aspire to be rock stars,but in reality are slackers who lie around and just get drunk all the time,living off the clans money. There is so much more to this book than what is written above.You will truely not want to put it down once you start reading it.This book ended up making the rounds at work and everyone who read it loved it.Some kept it awhile,so their family members could read it. My review title says it all...READ THIS BOOK!!!

This was really funny

Certainly not great literature (and not great editing), but this hilarious and fast-moving urban fantasy had me laughing out loud and wanting more. The excellent character and plot development makes the wonderfully absurd storyline almost credible and totally engaging. The chapters are short, making it light on the attention span, but it is so suspenseful that I was reading large chunks at a time and came to the end too soon. Fortunately, while most the loose ends are tied up, enough is left unresolved for a sequel. All in all, a lot of fun!

Tremendous fun

Lovely Werewolf Girl is tremendously entertaining. I started the novel before bed last night, intending to read for about twenty minutes. Three hours later, I could hardly put the book down. Millar has penned a fun, fast read that you might want to begin on an evening when you don't have to work the next morning. Thanks to Neil Gaiman for the recommendation.