As teenage werewolf Kalix MacRinnalch is pursued through the streets of London by murderous hunters, her sister, the Werewolf Enchantress, is busy designing clothes for the Fire Queen. Meanwhile, in the Scottish Highlands, the MacRinnalch Clan is plotting and feuding after the head of the clan suddenly dies intestate. As the court intrigue threatens to explode in all-out civil war, the competing factions determine that Kalix is the swing vote necessary to assume leadership of the clan. Unfortunately, Kalix isn t really into clan politics - laudanum s more her thing. But what s even more unfortunate is that Kalix is the reason the head of the clan ended up dead, which is why she s now on the run in London...
What can I say about this book...? I really did not enjoy it. There is nothing too wrong with the plot; however the storyline does not really come to a fulfilling conclusion at the end. The story follows various characters within a completely dysfunctional werewolf clan which are all fighting for power, prestige, or in the main character’s case; to be left alone. The book is based around the main character, the ‘lonely werewolf girl’, Kalix, who is exiled from her family and on its hit list. She is a druggie hooked on laudanum, and from the sound of it, pretty much anorexic, who hooks up with some hippies who allow her to stay with them, and who then get pulled into the werewolf’s family politics.
My main problem was not so much the writing, although it is written in jerky style, you eventually get past that. I believe my main problem liking the book lay with the main character Kalix. I just did not find her an enjoyable character, or one that I could relate to in any way. I don’t approve of drugs, and I found that fact that she was a druggie a bit off-putting, having said that though, there are series where the main character is a druggie (like Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane) that I have found highly enjoyable. I found Kalix to be too vulnerable, violent, self-abusive, petulant and angry to relate easily too, and that put the whole book off for me, considering it is based mainly around her.
I normally love werewolf books, and I was so excited when reading the blurb, and was completely let down by an unfulfilled storyline and un-relatable main character. I would not recommend it as a good paranormal fiction, however sometimes you have to try things out for yourself. Let me know what you think?
Lonely Werewolf Girl by Martin Miller, Piatkus ©2009, ISBN: 9780749942830
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