Liv would be more likable if she weren't so offensively self-centered (she's unwilling to introduce her black boyfriend to her mother, using her gay best friend as a cover boyfriend without considering both boys' distress). However, this werewolf story stands up as a strong narrative in its own right, even without the overwhelming metaphor. As in most of Block's modern work, constant direct parallels are drawn between adolescence and monstrousness Liv's lycanthropy parallels with menstrual blood, pubescent hair growth, adolescent anger and feelings of alienation. When a family of fierce, nigh-feral brothers moves to town, Liv's carefully protected secret life is endangered. Her parents responded to what they saw as their daughter's anger-management problems with Lexapro and Xanax, and she hasn't changed since. Seventeen-year-old Liv has a secret nobody else knows: On her 13th birthday, she got her first period and turned into a wolf.
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