Title: My Girlfriend Bites
Author: Doug Solter
Source: ebook from author for review
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Sometimes the boy gets the werewolf.
After his "dream" girl rejects him,
16-year-old Aiden tries to commit suicide, yet mysteriously survives. Now he
feels like a loser with zero possibility of finding the perfect girlfriend.
Enter Bree, the creepy girl with too much hair who's rumored to be cloned from
a frozen pre-historic cave girl that scientists discovered in Canada. But when
he accepts a ride from “Cave Girl” during a storm, Aiden discovers this weird
girl not only has a kind heart. She's also cute.
Aiden offers to help Bree in Algebra and the two
become friends. When Aiden pushes that friendship into a date, Bree accepts. On
a romantic night at the zoo, Bree and Aiden fall in love as the animals watch.
Unlike Aiden, they can smell what Bree really is.
Bree decides to tell him her deep, dark secret.
Her family are werewolves hiding from the Demon Skins, a mysterious new enemy
hunting down all the werewolf packs on earth. Aiden struggles with Bree's
revelation, but chooses to stand by the girl he fell in love with. But standing
by his new girlfriend will be the biggest test of his life.
Too bad Bree can't turn a coward into a fearless
werewolf. That bite thing is only a myth.
This forces Aiden to do the unthinkable...believe
in himself.
My take...
I wasn't sure what to expect when I started this
book. Would a get a cute read about werewolves...or would it be something
completely different? Yeah, I got something completely different. Although the
cover portrays a cartoonish girl, the story comes off as anything but. There
was a dark side that focused a lot on suicide and the attempts to ends one’s
life. But I found the little bit of humor and the paranormal aspect balanced it
all out.
Oh yes, there was some humor. Issy was a riot
that always had something to say to make you laugh. He was such a mess but I
enjoyed him so much. But at the end he became more serious and it was
justified. Which it leads me to my next concern....
I felt Aiden wasn't listening to his friend and
his concerns with Bree. Issy felt she was a threat and rightly so. But I
believe Aiden was letting his love for her cloud his judgment. He really needed
to take a step back and look at the whole picture.
Well done Solter for giving us another great read
(in a whole different genre than SKID) that kept me entertained and my interest
held. Will this be a series? Solter definitely left the ending open without it
feeling like there was no closure. So I guess we will just have to wait and see
because anything is possible.
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