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Lonely Werewolf Girl
by Martin Millar
I had read the Good Fairies of New York and was suitably impressed to go looking for the Lonely Werewolf Girl and I am glad I did.
The characters are rich, the history is layered, deep and non-intrusive and the story is intriguing. There is also some really light humourous moments in the book that certainly balanced things out.
What was really good about this book was that after the plethora of paranormal romance novels that for me has debased the mythology of these characters. This book brings back some of that wonderful mythology with a really solid backstory that shows a great deal of thought and research.
The story centres around Kalix, a royal werewolf who is in London and really does not care whether she lives or dies. We come into the story after her actions in injuring the Thane and we follow the events and this political stoush to elect a new Thane are played out. While that is the central story what kicks the story along is the introduction of some really great characters, the Fire Elemental Malveria who is totally hooked into fashion, the two humans Daniel and Moonglow, and then there are the supporting werewolf characters, wanna be rock star twins, the two wanna be Thanes and yes there are lot of characters. What surprised me was that I was not overwhelmed by all of them. Each character had a purpose, each character moved the story along and that is good writing.
My only criticism of the novel was that it did slow down just a little past the half way mark. There was a lot happening but we seemed to be almost going over the same territory, it could have been tiresome but Millar had the smarts to kick the book along another notch.
A great read, refreshing treatment of the werewolf myth and I would recommend it to anyone who does not want to be reading paranormal romance novels.
The characters are flawed, the characters are believable and the characters do develop as they go along.
The characters are rich, the history is layered, deep and non-intrusive and the story is intriguing. There is also some really light humourous moments in the book that certainly balanced things out.
What was really good about this book was that after the plethora of paranormal romance novels that for me has debased the mythology of these characters. This book brings back some of that wonderful mythology with a really solid backstory that shows a great deal of thought and research.
The story centres around Kalix, a royal werewolf who is in London and really does not care whether she lives or dies. We come into the story after her actions in injuring the Thane and we follow the events and this political stoush to elect a new Thane are played out. While that is the central story what kicks the story along is the introduction of some really great characters, the Fire Elemental Malveria who is totally hooked into fashion, the two humans Daniel and Moonglow, and then there are the supporting werewolf characters, wanna be rock star twins, the two wanna be Thanes and yes there are lot of characters. What surprised me was that I was not overwhelmed by all of them. Each character had a purpose, each character moved the story along and that is good writing.
My only criticism of the novel was that it did slow down just a little past the half way mark. There was a lot happening but we seemed to be almost going over the same territory, it could have been tiresome but Millar had the smarts to kick the book along another notch.
A great read, refreshing treatment of the werewolf myth and I would recommend it to anyone who does not want to be reading paranormal romance novels.
The characters are flawed, the characters are believable and the characters do develop as they go along.