Mortification Scale:
- 1 TF for being a fantasy novel
- 2nd TF for being about werewolves
- Warner Bros is making it into a movie
- It has an unhappy/neutral ending, thus making it artsy!
- The author is English, thus classier to us Anglophiles!
- Cool alternate history including the Inquisition. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Lola May is a bareback, a non-lycanthrope in a world in which 99% of the population grows fur every full moon. This birth defect is rare, yet valued for the ability to police the lupe population during moon nights. All non-werewolves are seconded into an organization that was established during the Inquisition to identify and deal with demons and other dangerous creatures. Since that time, the organization has gone through many incarnations, at the current time serving as a sort of FBI of the lupes. Each "normal" human who becomes a lupe is expected to stay indoors in special rooms. When in their animal forms, they have no human consciousness and are incredibly dangerous. Any loose lupe must be rounded up, caged, and prosecuted for failing to uphold the law. However, lupes are not to be held accountable for their behavior while shifted and are not to be injured in any way during capture.
Lola lives her dreary, depressing life as a mutant in a world of werewolves. Her relationship with her lupe family and bareback friends/coworkers are uniformly awful. The spot of sunshine in her life is her new nephew, Leo. Also, she begins dating a lupe, her first non-bareback lover. Life is looking up until a madman/dog begins stalking her and Lola May discovers a conspiracy that changes everything... All in all, a good book with some involving scenes and thought provoking concepts. Excellent first novel.
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