This book is SO PROFOUNDLY MISOGYNIST. I read all of its 500-page bulk, desperately hoping that this premise, which I /love/ would bear fruit, but instead I got an exhausting view into a gross man's imagined version of women's interiors: every female character is intensely obsessed with and terrified of the concept that she may not be the most beautiful woman in the room at any given moment. Fuck this bullshit that imagines eating disorders as a kind of paranoid vanity and imagines all women as constantly in weird awful competition with each other for the attention of any passing male. Fuck Martin Millar, frankly. ( )

Adult fiction; fantasy. Light reading; frequent typos but an enjoyable story. Engaging characters; lots of action. ( )

This is a fun book that stays with you long after it's finished.

For the first few chapters I wondered what exactly I'd bought. Millar's writing style is hard to tag and initially I found it distracting but as I let myself listen to the rhythm, I realised that the occasional jerkiness of the text was deliberate.It gives this book a sort of Punk energy that kept me slightly off-centre but always engaged. It's the writer's equivalent of shooting a movie with a hand-held camera, the result is less smooth than using a dolly but it gains a kind of credibility, a sense of really being there, that the fixed camera can't match.

"Lonely Werewolf Girl" is a big book with a large character list and rich back-story. It is filled with humour even though the themes are dark and it rattles along, urging you to keep turning the pages even though you know you should have been asleep an hour ago.

Initially I thought that the lonely werewolf girl of the title was Kalix MacRinnalch, a vulnerable, violent, self-abusive and anti-social young girl who is also brave, passionate and wonderfully unable to understand the world around her.

By the end of book I understood that all of the MacRinnalch women qualify as lonely werewolf girls.

The world that Martin Millar builds is energetic, vivid, quirky and addictive. Thankfully there are two more books in the series. ( )

Oh how I love this book! It's SO SO good! Earnest, sweet, funny, very engaging, sad and chock full of great characters, wacky adventures and unique story lines.

When it comes to the supernatural I've always thought if a writer were going to somehow tie in eating disorders it would be connected to zombies. But in Lonely Werewolf Girl the title character battles depression (among other things) after being thrown out of her house when she lashes out at her father because he and her mother hound her about not eating.

Sounds a bit odd, maybe, and even a bit over the top, but it's not. Martin Millar knows the heart and mind of a teenage girl...and perhaps that's one of the best things about this wonderful book... ( )

I wasn't too sure if I'd like this book - thoughts of it being like the Twilight travesty. However, I really enjoyed it. Interesting characters, good back story, paced well - left me wanting to know more about Kalix and her family. ( )