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The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group

by Catherine Jinks, Grant Cartwright (Narrator)

3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 · rating details · 783 ratings · 172 reviews

When Tobias Richard Vandevelde wakes up in hospital with no memory of the night before, his horrified mother tells him that he was found unconscious. At Featherdale wildlife Park. In a dingo pen.

He assumes that his two rambunctious best friends are somehow responsible, until he discovers that they're just as freaked out as he is. Then the mysterious Reuben turns up, claimi...more

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Feb 18, 2011 Vinaya rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: arc-galley, bleh, ya-fantasy

They say one picture is worth a thousand words. So here's one picture...

And now, for the thousand words...

In a fight between the Abused Werewolves and the Reformed Vampires, the werewolves would get their asses handed to them. On a plate. With gravy. The Abused Werewolves Rescue Group comes nowhere close to the kitschy coolness that was The Reformed Vampire Support Group. For one thing, this book reads like it's written for a much younger audience. The protagonist himself is only thirteen. Now...more

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May 23, 2013 Lena rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Hmmm, this book was interesting... but not amazing
I actually did not know that this was a companion/ sequel to The Reformed Vampire Support Group. But you can read this book without reading The Reformed Vampire Support Group. This book was only interesting because it has a different perspective on vampires and werewolves. The main character Toby, is 13 but I thought he sounded/ acted a little older than that. I definitely liked reading the book from male perspective, however there was no "WOW"...more

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Feb 27, 2012 Justine rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: feb-book-comp-werewolves-shifters

*SPOILER ALERT*
Toby is the boy who woke up naked in the dingo cage at the wildlife park. No one knows how he got there, he doesn't know how he got there, but he did. he ends up at the hospital for amnesia, the doctor is speculating epilepsy. What happened to Toby must have been an epileptic fit.

Someone else knows better. Father Ramon and Reuben know that Toby is a werewolf. Toby thinks they are nut jobs. Toby wants proof. So they give him proof. An old vault in an old abandoned bank. There are s...more

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Aug 31, 2011 Aaron rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Catherine Jinks is an Aussie with a flair for black humor. This is actually a sequel to The Reformed Vampire Support Group, which painted vampirism as a cumbersome wasting disease. Fortunately, Jinks brings back some of our favorite characters from that book to explore lycanthorpy with a new protagonist.

Poor Toby is 13 years old, and he has had a really bad morning. He wokeup naked in the dingo pen at a local nature reserve in Sydney Australia. He has no memory of how he ended up there. Fortunat...more

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Jul 17, 2011 Amy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: netgalley-arc

While Catherine Jinks has a good sense of humor, and some passages of The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group are fun to read, this quirky paranormal adventure misses the mark.

For starters, Toby V. seems like more of a caricature of a 13 year old boy, and, typically I try not to judge books by their covers, but seriously, people, who is the dude on the cover supposed to be? Toby is supposed to be scrawny and kind of dorky looking. He also apparently goes around wearing sweatpants under his jeans to con...more

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Jul 14, 2011 Christina (A Reader of Fictions) rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I really was not looking forward to this book after having read and pretty much hated The Reformed Vampire Support Group. Thankfully, this one was much better. It's still not going to be a new favorite, but it was a decent read that moved along at a nice pace.

The real difference between the two is the narrator; where Nina is bored and boring, Toby is full of energy and typical teen boy-ness. Catherine Jinks' conception of vampires was amusing, but reading about a bunch of folks who do not...more

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Jun 25, 2011 Melissa Elgersma rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: action-stories, fantasy, guys, high-school

We meet Toby the day he woke up naked and alone in a dingo pen at the local nature park. He is in the hospital with no memory of what happened. The doctors are talking epilepsy when a mysterious note shows up on his pillow that offers an explaination. The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group is the follow up book to Catherine Jinks's Reformed Vampire Support Group. After leaving the hospital, Toby gets two visitors, Father Ramon and Reuben, who claim to know what Toby really is.

While Toby has a hard ti...more

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May 24, 2011 Sarai rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult-fiction, supernatural

Spoiler Alert!

I really really liked parts of this, but the rest of the book was draggy and there were certain scenes that, IMHO, could have been eliminated altogether as they seemed to serve no purpose in the plot. I was also wondering about the cover, because the main character is 13 years old, so I assume it's supposed to be Reuben on the cover? Because the guy on the cover is obviously not 13.

The action dragged when Toby was doing stuff or thinking about stuff he had done with his friends. It...more

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May 08, 2011 P.M. rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Toby wakes up in a dingo pen with no memory of how he got there. His mother and his pediatrician suspect epilepsy. Imagine Toby's surprise when a priest named Fr. Alvarez and a tough guy named Reuben inform him that he has a genetic condition known as lycanthropy. Although Toby does not want to believe he is a werewolf, there are many clues, such as his sense of smell, that lead him to accept the diagnosis as true. When he is kidnapped by two thugs masquerading as policemen, he realizes that he...more

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Apr 11, 2011 Seanean rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Toby Vandevelde is famous. You may not know him by name, but you've probably heard of him. He's the kid who was found naked in a dingo cage after being reported missing by his mom.

No one seems to know how he got there, least of all him. He was just kicking back on his bed, enjoying a few minutes of privacy and then he was on a hospital bed being told he'd disappeared the night before.

Was he kidnapped? Was it a prank? Was it, as his mother suspects, drugs...more

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Apr 07, 2011 Judy & Marianne from Long and Short Reviews rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

After being found, naked, in a dingo pen at a wildlife park, Toby Vandevelde’s world takes a turn for the bizarre. People begin telling him he’s a werewolf, but how can that be? Werewolves don’t exist… do they? And now it’s up to Toby to find out the truth. Whatever that might be. In what proves to be an exciting and oftentimes frightening road to self-discovery, Toby will learn more than whether werewolves really exist. He’ll find his true self somewhere along the way.

Toby’s a rather troubled...more

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Mar 23, 2011 Norma rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is the second book in a series. I did not get the chance to read the first book. There were a few places where they referenced things that happened. But it wasn’t necessary to read the first one in order to understand this book.

First off, I thought that the characters were pretty weak. Toby was supposed to be thirteen, but for much of the book he was characterized as a much younger boy. His mom might as well just been holding her hands over her ears shouting “la la la I can’t hear you” for...more

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Jan 25, 2011 Rhiannon Ryder rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Courtesy of the lovely folks at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group popped through my mail slot in early October and became part of my ambitious list of reading for October. Well...I almost made it, only a few days out!

Somehow I had missed The Reformed Vampire Support Group when it came out this September, so I wasn't immediately aware of what a funny, fantastic series I was getting myself into. But before I start to rave I should really give you a brief idea of what it's...more Courtesy of the lovely folks at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group popped through my mail slot in early October and became part of my ambitious list of reading for October. Well...I almost made it, only a few days out!

Somehow I had missed The Reformed Vampire Support Group when it came out this September, so I wasn't immediately aware of what a funny, fantastic series I was getting myself into. But before I start to rave I should really give you a brief idea of what it's about.

The books starts right in the middle of things, Tobias has woken up in the hospital and is informed he was found in the Dingo cage at the zoo. Nobody is more shocked then Tobias himself who last remembers falling asleep in his bed at home, before waking up in the hospital. But things are going to get more bizarre before he figures it all out, because next up is a visit from a priest and a gruff and rough looking guy named Reuben, who are there to tell him he's a werewolf. Obviously this doesn't end up sitting to well with him and his mom, go figure, right?! Anywho, between his devilish two best friends and some bad guys who believe he's a werewolf even if Tobias doesn't agree, there's some major trouble abrewin'.

To start with the characters in this book are wonderful. Tobias and his two closest friends are so full of mischief and bad ideas, that right away you know this story is going to be enjoyable. But then start throwing in various members of The Reformed Vampire Support Group, their very patient family and friends, an out of control crazy Werewolf, and a revengeful kidnapped young werewolf and the story quickly takes off into the territory of constantly shifting, page-turning action coupled with some seriously funny situations and one liners.

So very different from the heartsick teen angsty vampires and werewolf's quickly taking over the YA genre, The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group instead takes the non-romantic but much more practical view of what happens when some stranger points to a few weird physical traits and one weird incident and tells you you're a mythical human hybrid. Cold turkey, just like that. The mom's particularly belligerent refusal to accept her son's heritage even when faced with the most extremely weird situations seemed so honest I could see my mom reacting the same way. But funny at the same time! I was almost rolling with laughter by the end of the book as the situation became more out of control and ridiculous and the characters sort of just rolled their eyes as if this was, sigh, just their lot in life.

By the end of the book I was jonesing to get my hands on all of Catherine Jinks other books. Lucky me I was also kindly given part three to her The Genius Wars, so now I just have to get out to a book store and find me part 1, part 2 and (of course) The Reformed Vampire Support Group and I'll be set up for a small Catherine Jinks marathon! Talk about an author to watch out for, especially if like me you haven't stumbled on her work before.

Lots of fun and super highly recommended, shake up your paranormal reading and pick it up when it comes out in April, until then make sure to join me in some Vampire fun with the Reformed Vampire Support Group which sounds just as great (fingers crossed!).

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Sep 12, 2012 Beckiezra rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This probably deserves 3.5 stars, I enjoyed it more than average but it didn't wow me. I'm not very consistent in my star ratings...

I read this rather quickly for me and I enjoyed the idea but I wasn't thrilled with the main character and just before the actual excitement started half way or more through the book I found myself wondering what the point of this was. I didn't want to follow the adventures of a 13 year old in pulling pranks and making messes, I wanted to know about werewolves!

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Feb 09, 2011 Christine Edison rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Toby has accepted that on Monday night, he somehow got out of his house, lost all of his clothes and wound up in the dingo pen of a local nature reserve. Did he have an epileptic attack, as his doctor thinks? Did he do drugs, as his mother suspects? Or is he becoming a werewolf, as his new acquaintance Reuben claims? Toby's friends Fergus and Amin want to trick Rueben and his support team, but Toby suspects Reuben's right. He just doesn't want to believe it.

This book frustrates me, perhaps becau...more

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Aug 14, 2011 Cristy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: humorous, vamps, werewolves

THE ABUSED WEREWOLF RESCUE GROUP is the second read of its kind for me and I have to admit it was a notch (even if only a small notch, a notch none the less) above its predecessor, THE REFORMED VAMPIRE SUPORT GROUP. Weather the mild betterment is truly due to an improvement in writing or has more to do with the fact that the werewolves were just far less depressing then the weak and sorely pathetic vampires, is a tough call to make.

Most of the original cast returns as secondary characters along...more THE ABUSED WEREWOLF RESCUE GROUP is the second read of its kind for me and I have to admit it was a notch (even if only a small notch, a notch none the less) above its predecessor, THE REFORMED VAMPIRE SUPORT GROUP. Weather the mild betterment is truly due to an improvement in writing or has more to do with the fact that the werewolves were just far less depressing then the weak and sorely pathetic vampires, is a tough call to make.

Most of the original cast returns as secondary characters along with some new ones including a new protagonist; this time (if not obvious from the title) the lead role revolves around a young werewolf instead of a vampire. And so we meet Toby, a 13 year old Australian who is forced to come to terms with the fact that werewolves are real and he happens to be one. Not that he accepts this easily or without overwhelming amounts of evidence, but it hard to deny his... ahem, change in species once bad guys kidnap him for the sole purpose of caging and forcing him to fight other werewolves to the death. And thus the rescue antics begin.

Although not a huge improvement over the first book, the intended humor is much better received coming from the mischievous and newly “wered” teen boy’s POV, him having far less baggage then Nina, the gothy half-starved 52 year old teen vamp girl of book 1. But to be perfectly honest, I think my enjoyment of this read was greatly influenced by the novelty within the format of which I “read” it. You see, I actually read (in paperback) REFORMED VAMPIRE SUPORT GROUP and I audio booked this one and the added novelty of the narrator’s Australian accent just might have played a role in holding my attention. All in all it’s a decent little quirky paranormal series that is really geared for the teen and tween crowd, but if you’re over the age of 17 and are still considering giving this book a look, I highly recommend checking it out in audio format which is well narrated by Grant Cartwright. (3.5 stars)
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May 15, 2011 Karen Keyte rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: teen-paranormal, teen-boys-adventure-mystery

"You've probably heard of me. I'm the guy they found in a dingo pen at Featherdale Wildlife Park." - Tobias Richard Vandevelde

Everything changed for Toby after he woke up in the hospital. He was already freaking out because he had no idea how he got there. Even after he figured out he wasn't dying, he was still a little panicked. Because, you know, he literally cannot remember anything that happened after ten the previous evening. Then his Mom shows up and informs Toby that he was discovered - b...more "You've probably heard of me. I'm the guy they found in a dingo pen at Featherdale Wildlife Park." - Tobias Richard Vandevelde

Everything changed for Toby after he woke up in the hospital. He was already freaking out because he had no idea how he got there. Even after he figured out he wasn't dying, he was still a little panicked. Because, you know, he literally cannot remember anything that happened after ten the previous evening. Then his Mom shows up and informs Toby that he was discovered - bloody, unconscious and naked, dammit - in the dingo pen at the local wildlife preserve. (Thank god he's only thirteen and the newspapers weren't allowed to publish his name. He'd have been 'dingo boy' forever.) What's more, the crushed geraniums outside his bedroom window make it pretty clear that Toby went out on his own. At least, there sure didn't look like there had been any kind of a struggle.

The pediatrician at the hospital suggests that Toby might have had some sort of seizure, but Toby has other ideas, He suspects his best friends, Fergus and Amin, and another one of their crazy schemes gone wrong. But when he confronts them, the boys swear they weren't involved and Toby believes them. He's pretty much accepted the epilepsy idea (it could come in handy on test days at school, Toby reckons) when a slightly shabby priest and an intense, fidgety young man named Reuben show up at the Vandevelde's front door and ask to speak to Toby and his mother. They're barely in house before they start yammering on about Toby's 'condition' and how he could be a danger to his mother. They want to help, they say. Apparently, they know what Toby is going through (which is more than he can say for himself) because Reuben suffers from the same affliction. When the lightbulb finally goes on, Toby realizes that Reuben believes himself to be a werewolf. What's more, he and this Father Ramon think Toby is a werewolf, too. If the pair of them weren't so deranged, the whole thing would be laughable.

It doesn't seem half so funny when Toby is kidnapped and imprisoned in a converted underground water tank. Suddenly, some of the things Reuben told him are starting to sound a lot more sane. But there's hardly time to think about all that now. Werewolf or not, Toby has to find a way out of this mess before his kidnappers do something truly awful.

The members of The Reformed Vampire Support Group ride again in this wholly engaging tale from the vivid, quirky imagination of Catherine Jinks. The paranormal community Ms. Jinks has created in Sydney's suburbs is unlike any other I have ever read about. The vampires are sickly and feeble, the werewolves are in danger from unscrupulous dog fight promoters and the humans who know their secrets include a sympathetic Catholic priest and a cranky old ex-barmaid. This novel works on so many levels. It's a real hoot, genuinely laugh-old-loud funny, but it's also a taut, suspenseful adventure full of danger, unlikely heroes and damaged victims. Toby's voice is pitch-perfect in his narration of the astounding, overwhelming and sometimes hilarious events that have overtaken his life. A pleasure to read from beginning to end.(less)

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Apr 04, 2011 Brandy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: netgalley, nook, paranormal, ya

*eARC from NetGalley

Toby is your normal teenage boy. He wishes he wasn't so skinny and has two best friends that are always pulling him into crazy stunts. So, when he wakes up in the hospital with no memory and no idea of how he ended up in the dingo pen naked and alone, he just knows that Fergus had something to do with it! When he finds out that his friends are innocent, he and his mother are left trying to figure out what is wrong with him. When a Catholic priest, Father Ramon, tells Toby tha...more

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Apr 12, 2011 Beth rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011, ya-fiction

This funny paranormal adventure explores the life of a boy who is stuggling to comes to terms with an odd genetic condition - one that turns him into an wild raging animal every full moon.

For readers looking for romance and heroism, this book may be too mundane, but to me, that's the source of the humor. A varied cast of teens to middle-aged adults gives this book and it's companion, the Reformed Vampire Support Group, a wide range of appeal.

The VOYA reviewer really ripped into this book, asse...more

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Oct 31, 2010 Jess rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2010, teen

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Apr 10, 2013 Charmaine Clancy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: aussie

I was instantly attracted to the cover of this book, the image with the title suggested a quirky dark read. I think this time it was a case of 'brilliant book cover, just not for this book'. The guy on the cover looks late twenties to thirty to me (he has the stubble of a five o'clock shadow), but turns out he's just thirteen. And he seems a young thirteen at times, but then talks about drugs, alcohol, guns and violence with the ease of an adult who's seen it all before. This doesn't gel with ho...more

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Apr 03, 2013 (All Hail) Grimlock rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was hoping for more from this book. I hyped it in my own mind, so maybe that was part of the disappointment I felt.

The characters were fully realized, the storyline was a tad dragged out, but for the most part clipped along at a nice pace. There was also a nice diversity as far as the personalities went, and Jinks is definitely a talented writer.

Why the three stars instead of four stars or five then? One reason, really. The werewolf issue, while talked about a lot, didn't come into play all...more

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Oct 08, 2012 Vannessa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle-books, netgalley-books, young-adult, were-shifters-mostly

Even though the main protagonist in this book is a 13 year old boy, it didn't particularly feel like a YA book.

Toby wakes up one morning, butt naked in the dingo pen of the local zoo with absolutely no recollection of what happened the night before or how he ended up in the pen. He believes his friends have played a bad joke on him, but they have no clue either. Several tests at the hospital later reveal no further clues as to what went on nor an explanation for his memory loss.

When a priest a...more

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Aug 17, 2011 Kelly Aley rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I don't know who recommended this, but the library had it available and alas there weren't any of my TBRs there. I really liked the initial premise: boy found in dingo cage unharmed. From there it went downhill. When Toby is informed he might be a werewolf, I was still there with the shocked reactions, disbelief, etc. But there were some superbly ridiculous parts to this book: prank to drop goo on a friend who is coming over even though you told him not to? Do real boys do that?...more

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Jun 07, 2011 Keli rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: abuse-abuse-survival, action, fantasy, horror, strong-internal-monologue, urban-fantasy, young-adult

This was a highly readable book and I ripped through it in a few days. However, I loved the Reformed Vampire Support Group so much, that this was bound to be a disappointment. Jinks returned to the dangerous world of werewolf fighting with a slightly new cast of characters. In this book, the vampires take a back seat and the werewolves get the spotlight. I liked that Reuben gets some more time. And I really appreciated the resistance of the main character in the face of overwhelming evidence. To...more

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May 14, 2011 Paula Weston rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ya-paranormal

These days, much of the popular paranormal fiction on YA shelves seems to be almost exclusively targeted at female audiences.

Teenage boys, however, can be thankful Catherine Jinks hasn’t forgotten them, following up her offbeat novel The Reformed Vampire Support Group (TRVSG) with another cool offering, The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group.

While the TRVSG was told from vampire Nina’s perspective, her latest novel is told through the eyes of 13-year-old Toby, who learns the hard way that his onset of...more These days, much of the popular paranormal fiction on YA shelves seems to be almost exclusively targeted at female audiences.

Teenage boys, however, can be thankful Catherine Jinks hasn’t forgotten them, following up her offbeat novel The Reformed Vampire Support Group (TRVSG) with another cool offering, The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group.

While the TRVSG was told from vampire Nina’s perspective, her latest novel is told through the eyes of 13-year-old Toby, who learns the hard way that his onset of hormones has also brought on the onset of latent lycanthropy.

Jinks turned vampire mythology on its head (her Sydney-based blood suckers are sickly and vulnerable, and not remotely interested in epic romances), and while she doesn’t take quite as many liberties with her werewolves, she still stays firmly grounded in realism.

Readers of TRVSG will be pleased to see the return of Rueben, the werewolf inadvertently rescued by the vampires (while they were timidly trying to track down a ‘slayer’).

It’s Rueben who tries to convince Toby he’s a werewolf (after the teenager is found dazed in a dingo pen after the last full moon). Not surprisingly, Toby thinks Rueben and his friends – the motely crew from TRVSG – are a bunch of weirdos, and it’s not until he’s kidnapped by men with more sinister motives that he begins to change his mind.

The story treads some familiar territory of TRVSG, but from a more masculine perspective (and, of course, is focused on werewolves, not vampires).

This time around the tone is darker and the story more violent (hard not to be when the plot centres on young werewolves being imprisoned and essentially turned into cage fighting pit bulls), but it’s never overdone, and there is still plenty of humour to stave off any real menace.

The pace is also faster this time around, with the action kicking in almost immediately, and then ramping up once Toby is kidnapped – and starts to realise Rueben wasn’t a complete nut job.

Again Jinks keeps her story unashamedly Australian, which for me was a big part of the book’s appeal.

And no, I’m not a teenage boy, but I still enjoyed it. I hope Jinks continues on with this group of characters, as there’s certainly plenty more she can do with them.(less)

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Mar 22, 2011 Kate rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: arcs, age-ya, 2011, werewolf-books, paranormal

I read this ARC via NetGalley.

Toby recently blacked out and woke up in a dingo pen. While the doctors try to determine whether or not Toby has epilepsy and his mother interrogates him about drug use, Toby receives a letter from a priest who has a totally different theory about Toby's blackout: he's a werewolf.

At first Toby and his mother think the priest and his friend Reuben (who also claims to be a werewolf) are crazy. Toby and his two friends go out of their way to capture Reuben's crazy theo...more

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Oct 31, 2011 Ann rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: slis-5425

You don't have to read The Reformed Vampire Support Group to enjoy this book, but it does help to know where Rueben comes from. That said, Jinks once more tackles a mythical species and does it justice while completely turning it on its head. These werewolves are very different from others you have heard of - and these differences make it much harder for Rueben to convince Thad that he *is* one. All werewolves are descended from the same family in Peru. They are always seventh sons. There are a...more

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Mar 26, 2013 Kathryn rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, young-adult-supernatural, 4-stars-liked

I picked up this book because it's by the same author who wrote The Reformed Vampire Support Group and I loved that book. There are a few crossover characters from the previous book, like Father Alvarez, Reuben, and a few of the members of the Vampire Support Group, but the book focuses mainly on Toby and can be read entirely by itself without any need to read the previous book. The beginning gets off to a slow start as Toby figures out what's going on and what might have happened that night whe...more

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Dec 16, 2011 pauliree rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: audio-book, young-adult, urban-fantasy, read-in-2011

This book certainly had its moments. After the first half of playground pranks and hijinks, once Toby loses his friends and has adventures in the werewolf world the book improves dramatically. His figuring out it is all true and admitting to himself he really is a werewolf is what started making th book interesting to me. I didn't read the first book in this series, so Rueben and Nina were strangers to me. I will be going back now to listen to the first book to see if knowing the sequel makes th...more

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