Confessions of a Werewolf Supermodel

By Ronda Thompson

Lou was just an ordinary teen until one night when her date tried to rape her. At which point she changed into a werewolf and really rocked his world. When she returned to her normal self she ran away from home and a possible murder charge and fled to New York City where she found work as a model becoming so successful and famous that she earned the title of supermodel.
As it turns out, after the first werewolf transformation, her then ordinary features suddenly rearranged themselves into extraordinary and what had been just an average teen was now drop-dead gorgeous. Plus her werewolf metabolism and strength meant she never had to diet or worry about what she ate, unlike most models, let alone women. Really the only thing she had to worry about was the unexpected, unpredictable wolfish outbreaks she had been experiencing lately, like suddenly sprouting fur when she is supposed to be modeling scanty underwear. Also when she get wets she smells like a wet dog. So even though she is beautiful, thin and powerful, she still carries a burden everywhere she goes.
What she doesn't understand is the sudden wolfish breakthroughs that are throwing her off her stride. She hasn't turned werewolf since that first traumatic incident several years ago. But here lately she is constantly sprouting fur and fangs and claws without warning. Something has certainly changed but what can it be? Then the reports of young murdered woman start turning up, young women that bore a striking resemblance to herself. Young women who it seems may have been attacked by a werewolf. And that werewolf's ultimate target turns out to be Lou. Lou is in for the fight of her life and going rogue and releasing her inner werewolf may be the only way she can stay alive.

This was a pretty good story, more so in the beginning than towards the end. Lou's predicament trying to deal with her werewolf outbreaks is pretty amusing and her down-to-earth, unpretentious personality are very appealing. But the story lost me when in turned into a gruesome murder mystery, with the mangled bodies of beautiful young women turning up all over the place. It was just a little to bloody-minded for me. Also, it is obviously the beginning of a series of novels about Lou the werewolf supermodel because it has a very open-ended conclusion, with several mysteries about Lou and her werewolfism yet to be solved and without Lou falling in love with any of the eligible and attractive men that parade through the novel, starting with her photographer, and including the cop investigating the murders and the private detective slash rock musician she hired to track down her real parents. Since I am not looking to get into a series, I prefer stand-alone novels, I will only rate this one fair. Also I didn't care for the violence and murders. It seems to me that with its lighthearted title that the book should have been more in line with the title, less gore and lots more fun.