Kristen Chandler

No. This book doesn't have any werewolves. Sorry. If you didn't have that same thought when you read the title well... yeah. It's just me then. KJ Carson lives near Yellowstone. Her father is a guide there. He is very serious and always brooding. Her mother dies in a car crash when she was little. She was in the car but nothing happened to her. She's the clumsy type of person that is like the girl you don't really know. Well in this really small town they do know a lot about you.

Then comes in Virgil the really good looking guy from Minesooda. His mom is a researcher of Wolves which have been getting some attention now because they are killing off cattle. There are a lot of angry ranchers. She starts something when she and Virgil start to write a little page on their high school newspaper about the Cinderella wolf who's sister has beaten her up, droven away the rest of her family, and might possibly have killed her babies. This of course angers the townsfolk but it just get progressively worse in a series of events. She's trying to work with the wolves but she just feels like she is making it worse. What is a girl to do?

This is a pretty long book. Almost 400 pages but it wasn't bad reading it. The characters were really interesting and the story too. There was a little mystery going on in there too. The father... why do fathers have to be such a pain? I know he wants to make her strong but he just really got under my skin sometimes. He needs to realx a little bit but I do understand. Sort of. He wanted her to leave everything alone which wasn't right. I had a hard time picturing Virgil. I never have imagined a boy with :shaggy: hair. He was nice but I don't know he was not as sweet or maybe it's cute? as he was in the beginning. But Holy Smack! I did really like this book. It was well worth the read.

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Kristen Chandler writes well. She really does. I read her first book, "Wolves, Boys, and Other Things That Might Kill Me" and enjoyed it. The weakness of the first book was it went on too long just developing characters before any real plot got rolling. The problem with this book is that ALL of the book is developing characters, and no plot ever really develops at all.
Myra is a teen in a large family which depends on her too much. Her dreadful boyfriend dumps her as the book opens and she is then promptly in a competition with him to receive a grant to study for the summer in the Galapagos Islands. Those two sentences accurately summarize about 90% of the book. I found it very disappointing. I liked Myra, and Chandler writes well enough that it's never painful to read, but in the end I was left desperately longing for something to have happened besides self-discovery and realizing that her ex-boyfriend was an ass.… (lisätietoja)

A novel for teens, told in the first person: Clumsy KJ starts her junior year of high school in a small Montana town near Yellowstone with a growing interest in wolves and a growing interest in the new kid at school, who is spending one year in town with his mother, who studies wolves. The first third of the book is a little slow, as we meet the characters, and hear a little more "he loves me, he loves me not" than I cared for. But the meat of the story gets rolling in the last two thirds, and it's a good story.
Wolves have been reintroduced to the wild in Montana. This is great news for conservationists and wolf aficionados, but bad news for local ranchers, who always lose some of their livestock to the wolves. The conflict between ranchers and wolf fans was already brewing, but KJ and her almost-boyfriend Virgil trouble the waters significantly. Chandler doesn't fully take sides on the ethical issue of the wolves. She presents both sides of the argument and leaves the reader to decide what he or she thinks. But since her heroine is clearly on the wolf's side, we can guess which way she would like us to lean.
Good story, well told. The book is clearly written for a female audience, however, this male reader quite enjoyed it once I got through the angst filled first third of the book. KJ and Virgil are both likable, believable protagonists.… (lisätietoja)