I received this book as a gift. After the first page I thought "Really? A book about a depressed, anorexic, teenage junkie werewolf? Why would my friend send me this?" But I kept going, and was soon engrossed and laughing. This novel was a delightful, escapist romp. It has family intrigue, colorful characters (werewolf, human, and other), a great sense of humor, a nice balance between bloody battles and sheer silliness. I would set out to read for a half-hour before bed and before I knew it, two hours had gone by and I still didn't want to stop for the night.

My only real complaint about the book is poor copy-editing, from the typos throughout (note to publishing houses: spell-checking programs don't catch everything!) to the repetitive descriptions of the characters (do we really need to be told 3 times within 100 pages that Beauty and Delicious are twins and one has blue hair and the other has pink hair? Actually Millar seemed pretty obsessed with all the characters' hair throughout...).

Overall, I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys long fantasy novels set in the modern world.