Wolfy stories

[mothwing]

Periodically, I browse the internet in search for werewolf books. Most of what I find reads like a PSA for why it's a great idea to stay with an abusive partner ("Not his fault that he turns into a werewolf, it's the curse! He's not himself! It's just his violent nature that wants out!") or porn (really lulzy porn).

Female werewolves are far and few between, and they're often either porn stars, or sidekicks to male werewolf love interests (hi Leah), or exotic monsters for male heroes to sleep with (I suppose even Angua, my favourite female werewolf, falls into this category).

There are exceptions, of course, but the last werewolf stories I read - Patricia S. Briggs novels and Gill McNight's lesbian werewolf oeuvre - have left me rather underwhelmed. So I went looking and added these to my books-to-search-at-the-library-pile:

• Helen Kate (aka She-Wolf)'s Wolf-Girls. An anthology exploring a variety of female werewolf stories. I don't like short stories, but this one has been on my list for a while. This I won't find at the library, but it's available as a not too expensive ebook, though I don't use my slow ebook reader unless forced to.


• Carrie Vaughn's Kitty series. I'm trepidatious about this series mostly because of their covers, but the main character appears to be a female werewolf, so why not.


• Naomi Clark's Silver Kiss. This one has lesbian werewolves in a world in which werewolves and humans know about each other.


• Martin Millar's Lonely Werewolf Girl. It has an eccentric self-harming teenager as the main character. Why not.


• Allison Moon's Lunatic Fringe about a College group of feminist werewolves sounds a bit choppy, but both FeministFantasy and She-Wolf were ok with it, so why not give it a whirl.

I am also reminded to put Ash and Huntress by Malinda Lo on my to-buy-list. And possibly The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer.

I'm grateful for any wolfy recs that you have! 

Comments

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

You're looking for lesbians and werewolves?

Here's "The Cage" by A. M. Dellamonica, an adorable short story about queer found family. With werewolves. Enjoy.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Yip, that's what I'm looking for- well, female werewolves in general, really, but if they're queer/lesbian female werewolves of colour, so much the better. Although WOC are even harder to track down, or maybe my google skills just aren't good.

The story sounds great, thanks!

[krakelwok.livejournal.com]

In the past, things that came to mind when dealing with zombies, vampires and werewolves included (but weren't limited to) wooden stakes, crosses, silver bullets, salt, lawnmowers, chainsaws and head shots. Today it's all sparkles and condoms.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that safer sex is necessarily a major theme in "Fucked by the Pack", but I get what you mean (not that I'd prefer an overabundance of stakes and chainsaws).

Especially in novels centred on female characters books without romance plots are nigh impossible to find, it's really annoying.