The books that have been
collecting dust for so long they have
become stained from it
Prod dets
Lonely
Were Wolf Girl
Series: Kalix MacRinnalch, book 1
Pub: 2007,
Meadow & Black (Great Britain)
Author: Martin Millar
Genre: Fantasy
Format: paperback (mid); 599pp w/ 236
chapters
Age Range: ?
Synopsis
Millar’s expansive tale of werewolves
in the modern world—friendly werewolves, fashionista werewolves, troubled
teenage werewolves, cross-dressing werewolves, werewolves of every sort—blends satire,
black comedy, fantasy and is hard-edged, hilarious, believable and utterly
unputdownable.
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
court intrigue threatens to explode in all-out 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..
Series
[tb], Curse of the
Wolf Girl,
The Whys
I
bought this book because my brother-in-law bought me the second in the series
and when I started looking it up and realised that I would have to read the
first one for this one to make the most sense, if not, sense at all.
The
problem being that I just don’t think it’s my thing. I don’t do horror and the
way this has come down and the people that have wrote crap about it, has suggested
that I probably won’t like it all that much.
It’s
a in your face book, I think is the dumbed down version of their tales.
I
do however, really like the cover’s there creepy and intriguing, they actually
make you want to read it, and probably the reason that I just...can’t.
They
have that ‘The Ring’ feel to it that’s really cool and dark. And if I had any
balls that I could muster to be able to read it. Then it would have already
happened.
As
it is, this book is on my Challenge list, and I still don’t know if I’ll be
able to read it for that either. I guess we’ll see when the time comes that I
have to pick it up, wont we?!
Added
(book
2) Curse of the Lonely Wolf Girl
Published
2010 (Piatkus)
(mid)
paperback: 534pp w/204 chapts
Summary:
Meet
Kalix. She’s struggling with college—and staying alive.....
Scottish
teenage werewolf Kalix MacRinnalch is in London trying to settle down and live
a normal life. Her new friends support her as she goes to college to learn to
read and write, but her old enemies won’t leave her alone. Many powerful
werewolves want Kalix dead, and the Guild of Werewolf Hunters is still
dedicated to wiping out the entire MacRinnalch werewolf clan.
Life
might be easier if Kalix’s family was able to help, but her sister, the
Enchantress, needs all her powers to locate the perfect pair of high heels, her
brother Markus is busy in Scotland organising an opera, and her cousin Dominil
is engaged in her own merciless vendetta. Kalix must carry on alone, but she’s
finding it difficult enough to pay the rent without having to deal with
werewolf hunters and exams at the same time....
☼☼☼
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