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Kalix, a morose, laudanum-addicted, unschooled, slightly anorexic werewolf is still on the run. The youngest daughter of the Thane of the MacRinnalch Clan of werewolves, held responsible unfairly for the death of the Thane, and justifiably responsible for the deaths of a great many other werewolves, remains prohibited from returning to Scotland in order to maintain the une
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This book is awesome and reviewing it will only butcher the masterpiece.
*sigh*
Don't read it and go buy the book instead :)
In this story, the werewolf Kalix MacRinnalch is settling down in Daniel and Moonglow's flat in London in a relatively safe situation. Though half of the werewolf Council wants her dead, her family protects her and hides her from them. Vex, the young Fire Elemental, is also settling down in Daniel and Moonglow's attic, and both of the girls go to remedial college to learn ...more
*sigh*
Don't read it and go buy the book instead :)
In this story, the werewolf Kalix MacRinnalch is settling down in Daniel and Moonglow's flat in London in a relatively safe situation. Though half of the werewolf Council wants her dead, her family protects her and hides her from them. Vex, the young Fire Elemental, is also settling down in Daniel and Moonglow's attic, and both of the girls go to remedial college to learn ...more
I shouldn't have bothered. Why do I read this crap?
I moderately enjoyed the first novel in this series but with so many great books to read, why do I settle for moderation? I suppose the cover art hooked me. It is quite seductive. I suppose I had hopes the writing would improve from Book 1 to Book 2. Unfortunately, it got worse. I suppose I thought the characters might have a little more depth in Book 2. They were even more shallow. I suppose I thought it would be "fun" because the first was so ...more
I moderately enjoyed the first novel in this series but with so many great books to read, why do I settle for moderation? I suppose the cover art hooked me. It is quite seductive. I suppose I had hopes the writing would improve from Book 1 to Book 2. Unfortunately, it got worse. I suppose I thought the characters might have a little more depth in Book 2. They were even more shallow. I suppose I thought it would be "fun" because the first was so ...more
[Review of an advance review copy.:]
I was introduced to Martin Millar two years ago when Neil Gaiman recommended Lonely Werewolf Girl to his fans. LWF was a revelation to me. Here was a book that was whimsical, violent, sad, funny and completely insane and off-kilter, and yet it was also one of the most readable books I'd picked up in a long time. I loved it with my whole being.
The sequel is more of the same, mostly in the best sense: Millar's characters, their relationships and their dialog ...more
I was introduced to Martin Millar two years ago when Neil Gaiman recommended Lonely Werewolf Girl to his fans. LWF was a revelation to me. Here was a book that was whimsical, violent, sad, funny and completely insane and off-kilter, and yet it was also one of the most readable books I'd picked up in a long time. I loved it with my whole being.
The sequel is more of the same, mostly in the best sense: Millar's characters, their relationships and their dialog ...more
Two words - Sheer Genius!
If you haven’t read ‘Lonely Werewolf Girl’, do yourself a favour and go out and get it! Especially if you like dry humour (think of something like “My Family” on BBC) and you enjoy the supernatural (Werewolves, Fairies, Fire Elementals...).
Martin Millar is an amazing writer, who not only knows how to create an entire world filled with all kinds of characters that you would never have imagined, but he has the wittiest dialog I have ever come across in a story. The world ...more
If you haven’t read ‘Lonely Werewolf Girl’, do yourself a favour and go out and get it! Especially if you like dry humour (think of something like “My Family” on BBC) and you enjoy the supernatural (Werewolves, Fairies, Fire Elementals...).
Martin Millar is an amazing writer, who not only knows how to create an entire world filled with all kinds of characters that you would never have imagined, but he has the wittiest dialog I have ever come across in a story. The world ...more
I managed 58 pages. And I only got that far through a desperate, but ultimately deluded, hope that it would get better.
In those pages, I read:
* 1 skimmed-over fight scene. This is literally the only action; the rest is just talking.
* 1 man throwing a tizzy fit because a woman was being 'unreasonable' in not wanting to be his girlfriend.
* 5 flashbacks to the exact same backstory.
* 4 separate instances of fat shaming, one of which went on for half a page.
* 1 woman trying to start a fight with a d ...more
In those pages, I read:
* 1 skimmed-over fight scene. This is literally the only action; the rest is just talking.
* 1 man throwing a tizzy fit because a woman was being 'unreasonable' in not wanting to be his girlfriend.
* 5 flashbacks to the exact same backstory.
* 4 separate instances of fat shaming, one of which went on for half a page.
* 1 woman trying to start a fight with a d ...more
Nov 24, 2010
Mike Kimera
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
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This is the book that gave me the most enjoyment this year.
It seems to be in a genre of its own: violent and whimsical, fantistical and grounded in reality, funny and soaked in sadness.
This is the second volume in the Kalix series and it is even better than the first. What more can you ask of a sequel?
It seems to me the title refers not just to Kalix but to all the femal werewolves. They are all cursed in one way or another.
This is a book bursting with memorable characters and with a plot that m ...more
It seems to be in a genre of its own: violent and whimsical, fantistical and grounded in reality, funny and soaked in sadness.
This is the second volume in the Kalix series and it is even better than the first. What more can you ask of a sequel?
It seems to me the title refers not just to Kalix but to all the femal werewolves. They are all cursed in one way or another.
This is a book bursting with memorable characters and with a plot that m ...more
This was absolutely terrific! Better even than
, which was in turn better than
. More fun than almost anything I've read this year. An inspiration to fantasy writers everywhere - originality galore and the perfected art of making the implausible seem anything but.
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, which was in turn better than
. More fun than almost anything I've read this year. An inspiration to fantasy writers everywhere - originality galore and the perfected art of making the implausible seem anything but.
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This is really a 3.5, but I couldn't bear to give it a 3!
I was really excited to revist the wonderful imaginative and sometimes slightly silly world of Martin Millar. His books always have a slapdash and childlike feel to them, which form a wonderful juxtaposition to the violence, sex, alcohol and drug abuse and cynicism surrounding most of his characters.
The Wolf Girl books have a great range of characters, all both completely flawed and oblivious to their flaws in their own ways. I love them a ...more
I was really excited to revist the wonderful imaginative and sometimes slightly silly world of Martin Millar. His books always have a slapdash and childlike feel to them, which form a wonderful juxtaposition to the violence, sex, alcohol and drug abuse and cynicism surrounding most of his characters.
The Wolf Girl books have a great range of characters, all both completely flawed and oblivious to their flaws in their own ways. I love them a ...more
The first book in the series was amazing, and is one of the most refreshing books I've read in a long time. This second installment continued the series with it's quirky and loveable characters, intricately woven and over-the-top story-lines and wonderful dry and silly humour. Again, I loved it. The thing that has made me mark it down from 5 stars, is that there was quite a lot of repetition, especially in the first half of the book. This is understandable and is largely because the relationship
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Aug 07, 2011
Fefia
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
every person out there who loves werewolve's stories
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just found it in goodreads.com
This story is like nothing else I've read before, and the way is written....I just don't know.... it's so unusual. But that's what makes it special!
This isn't the ordinary story of a girl who is different, alone and wants to change, well it kind of is, but please do not have any expectations 'cause this isn't the obvious story with a typical ending.
I really liked the kind of awkward way in which the story is written.
No obvious happy ending, no eternal love stories, no perfect match, no evil-wil ...more
This isn't the ordinary story of a girl who is different, alone and wants to change, well it kind of is, but please do not have any expectations 'cause this isn't the obvious story with a typical ending.
I really liked the kind of awkward way in which the story is written.
No obvious happy ending, no eternal love stories, no perfect match, no evil-wil ...more
A terrific book, but not nearly as brilliant as Lonely Werewolf Girl. Still I haven't read anything that Martin Millar wrote that wasn't great.
Lonely Werewolf Girl had a very satisfying ending, so there was no need for a sequel. That being said, I really enjoyed seeing what happened everyone.
The one thing I missed from the first book were the many references to The Runaways. Perhaps the buzz around the movie made Mr. Millar remove them. ...more
Lonely Werewolf Girl had a very satisfying ending, so there was no need for a sequel. That being said, I really enjoyed seeing what happened everyone.
The one thing I missed from the first book were the many references to The Runaways. Perhaps the buzz around the movie made Mr. Millar remove them. ...more
I love this and the first book unreasonably. I will hear no criticisms nor notice any failures in the text myself. You have been warned. Do not attempt to criticise this novel in my presence.
I learned NOTHING from this book, and that's good. I did enjoy it quite a bit.
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This was not as good as the first one, The Lonely Werewolf Girl. But who could resist an urban fantasy about Scottish werewolves and the troubled adolescent outcast who has run away to London where she's being cared for by two soft-hearted college students? Not me. Also I liked the added plot elements of a guild of wolf hunters, mostly Eastern European, and the fashion-obsessed Fire Elementals who may or may not be closely related to fairies, the punk werewolf band called Yum Yum Sugary Snacks,
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The first book was good as it was written mostly from the perspective of Kalix and college kids, so the relative lack of maturity made sense. However, this book is written from many perspectives and I feel like all the characters kinda blended together, and none of them showed any maturity or responsibility. I just couldn't get into it though I definitely tried
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Sep 17, 2019
Bec
marked it as dnf
I tried. And it's nothing against this book in particular, but I just can't do werewolf books.
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Werewolves, fairies, fashion and politics. 2nd book to follow one I didn't read. Decent, but a bit long, and sometimes the characters acted stupid.
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its fucking hilarious but also kind of sad and very thought provoking. the dialogue is amazing and the characters are so unique.
Awesome!
This book brings to the table a unique and refreshing perspective.
It has been long since I've read something like this (maybe never) and I really had fun reading this one!
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The characters are easy to relate to.
First off, I have to confess that I absolutely love Martin Millar. Throughout the nineties and noughties he produced some of the most brilliant, concise, tongue-in-cheek, contemporary fantasy novels ever written. When you read Millar you can pretty much guarantee certain tropes; you will meet characters that you should hate but wind up loving or wanting to protect within a handful of (his notoriously compact and economically written) chapters; there will be musicians/poets/writers/game fanatics
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The sequel to ‘Lonely Werewolf Girl’, ‘Curse of the Wolf Girl’ picks up the tale of Kalix MacRinnalch, a troubled teenage werewolf who is currently in London, being hidden from her many foes by human students Daniel and Moonglow.
Even for a fantasy novel, the plot of this series with its intricate history-building, political intrigue, Heat-magazine-worthy gossip-mongering and cast of literally hundreds of characters, requires a lot of suspension of disbelief. It’s convoluted, silly, dramatic, ang ...more
Even for a fantasy novel, the plot of this series with its intricate history-building, political intrigue, Heat-magazine-worthy gossip-mongering and cast of literally hundreds of characters, requires a lot of suspension of disbelief. It’s convoluted, silly, dramatic, ang ...more
Kalix MacRinnalch just cannot catch a break. Being a teenager is hard enough, but being a teenager with an eating disorder, a drug problem, struggles with depression and then the fact that she has werewolf clans trying to hunt her down and a clan of crazy werewolf hunters as well. Then there's friendships and family drama to deal with. No wonder Kalix is a little nuts.
There is something a little absurd about Millars world and the characters with in it but at the same time, even when they are run ...more
There is something a little absurd about Millars world and the characters with in it but at the same time, even when they are run ...more
I have read Millar’s other works and I loved ‘The Good Fairies of New York’ and the first in the wolf girl series ‘Lonely Werewolf Girl’. Both of those works are dazzling and some of the best urban fantasy reading I have ever done. The follow up to ‘Lonely Werewolf Girl’ is somewhat of a disappointment.
Picking up from the first novel we see Kalix the teenage werewolf trying to make a normal life, she is attending school and trying to get along with everyone. A series of events bring back into c ...more
Picking up from the first novel we see Kalix the teenage werewolf trying to make a normal life, she is attending school and trying to get along with everyone. A series of events bring back into c ...more
Kalix MacRinnalch is not a happy werewolf. Now that her brother Marcus is Thane and her mother remains Mistress of the Werewolves, she is relatively safe in London. She has friends now, the two humans she lives with and a teenage Fire Elemental. Still, Kalix remains her usual depressed, anorexic, and angry self. She’s tired of her life. She doesn’t want to have to go to remedial college or fight werewolf hunters. She doesn’t want to have to fend off other members of her clan intent on killing he
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After reading Lonely Werewolf Girl, I eagerly ran out and bought this book not much time later. And of course, I was not disappointed. This book is much the same as the first, the characters are brought over well, much unchanged.
I believe the only character that really grew any was Agrivex (and maybe, slightly, Kalix), all the others seemed much the same, which was a minor point of complaint to me; do we all not grow some in life? Even so, most of the characters are the same and quite likable. ...more
I believe the only character that really grew any was Agrivex (and maybe, slightly, Kalix), all the others seemed much the same, which was a minor point of complaint to me; do we all not grow some in life? Even so, most of the characters are the same and quite likable. ...more
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, she is struggling with college and staying alive due to her old enemies that won’t leave her alone. Many powerful werewolves want Kalix dead, and the Guild of Werewolves Hunters is still dedicated to wiping out the entire MacRinnalch clan.
Life might be easier if Kalix’s family was able to help, but her sister, the En ...more
Life might be easier if Kalix’s family was able to help, but her sister, the En ...more
Nov 22, 2010
S.J. Bell
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Lonely Werewolf Girl was one of those books that made you struggle to figure out which genre it belongs in. In hindsight, however, I think the best comparison would be a webcomic in it's early stages. It had a continuing storyline, which appeared to have been sketched out in broad strokes. The details were being made up as the author went, with no going back to shore up earlier bits. Instead it embraced an episodic structure, which ensured that every chapter was meant to be read for what it was,
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Martin Millar is a critically acclaimed Scottish writer from Glasgow, now resident in London. He also writes the Thraxas series of fantasy novels under the pseudonym Martin Scott.
The novels he writes as Martin Millar dwell on urban decay and British sub-cultures, and the impact this has on a range of characters, both realistic and supernatural. There are elements of magical realism, and the feelin ...more
The novels he writes as Martin Millar dwell on urban decay and British sub-cultures, and the impact this has on a range of characters, both realistic and supernatural. There are elements of magical realism, and the feelin ...more
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