A friend recommended a book to me called "Missy The Werecat".
Premise is that Missy at age 13 was at soccer camp on summer and woke in the middle of a moonlit night to go into the woods. She changed into a panther. She is an intelligent teenager and stumbled around a bit getting used to her new self. She tried to her best to change back but that didn't happen for two years.
So she lived as a cougar in the woods hear Mount Washington. She fed herself on rabbits, the occasional deer. She went into heat several times and drove off male cougars successfully.
Eventually she migrated south along the mountains and found herself changed back into her human form. She was naked and stole some clothes. She is contemplating how to contact her parents and has no idea how to explain her absence. She gets involved in a rescue when a car goes off a mountain road and she plunges down a cliff to rescue the passengers. She ends up getting transported to a hospital.
The rest of the book involves the authorities, her parents, the reunion. The delicate handling of this possibly sexually abused teenager. And things stumble along. A year goes by before she outs herself to her parents. So that is mostly the first book. I really enjoyed it. She does extremely well in high school in getting caught up and in sports. She has extra strength because she is a werecat.
By the end of this book she has endeared herself to friends of the people she rescued and is trying for a position at West Point. The books dealing with this were pretty good, the pleb rituals and all of that was very interesting.
However the authors writing style began to wear on me. Missy giggled....a lot. I was hoping for the occasional smirk, or smile or guffaw but no it was steady giggling. Her good friend Tracy giggled a lot as well. The author used italics way too much for emphasis. Didn't need it...at all. Somewhere around the third or fourth book and author began using quotation marks around a single word to indicate emphasis. Ugh. NO that ain't grammatically correct.
There was a sex scandal a group of 7 upper classmen had hired prostitutes for sex and they pimped these women to other cadets. Missy broke that up but it seems like West Point has actually a better system to handle this type of thing compared to other military academies.
So the books progress to the point where Missy discovered she can teleport about 500 miles at a time so the FBI has her infiltrating enemy computers with virus. Everybody partners up, marry or have relationships and merrily have sex sex sex sex sex. Uh gets a little repetitive. I reached a point where I ignored the boring bits and paged ahead about five pages of panting and thrusting.
Also the author recapped endlessly the subsequent books had to tell 35% of the previous damn story and that AFTER a good three chapter Prologue. If the author is THAT short on word count, time to develop the characters.
The only thing we ever hear about Missy's internal dialog is that she compartmentalizes well, pain, anyone killed in battle, etc. Oh and she has bonded with her soulmate and they chat telepathically with each other constantly. Isn't that kind of like texting and driving? Could be a BAD thing. SHUT UP MISSY!!!!
I enjoyed reading quite a few of the reviews. About half complained about the sex and at least one did a full analytical review pointing out grammatical errors and made actual suggestions. Hope the author reads it and took it to heart. I will check back to see if there any other Missy books. Hope she actually finishes West Point and goes on to Ranger and Seal school as those were goals of hers. Mebbe.
Premise is that Missy at age 13 was at soccer camp on summer and woke in the middle of a moonlit night to go into the woods. She changed into a panther. She is an intelligent teenager and stumbled around a bit getting used to her new self. She tried to her best to change back but that didn't happen for two years.
So she lived as a cougar in the woods hear Mount Washington. She fed herself on rabbits, the occasional deer. She went into heat several times and drove off male cougars successfully.
Eventually she migrated south along the mountains and found herself changed back into her human form. She was naked and stole some clothes. She is contemplating how to contact her parents and has no idea how to explain her absence. She gets involved in a rescue when a car goes off a mountain road and she plunges down a cliff to rescue the passengers. She ends up getting transported to a hospital.
The rest of the book involves the authorities, her parents, the reunion. The delicate handling of this possibly sexually abused teenager. And things stumble along. A year goes by before she outs herself to her parents. So that is mostly the first book. I really enjoyed it. She does extremely well in high school in getting caught up and in sports. She has extra strength because she is a werecat.
By the end of this book she has endeared herself to friends of the people she rescued and is trying for a position at West Point. The books dealing with this were pretty good, the pleb rituals and all of that was very interesting.
However the authors writing style began to wear on me. Missy giggled....a lot. I was hoping for the occasional smirk, or smile or guffaw but no it was steady giggling. Her good friend Tracy giggled a lot as well. The author used italics way too much for emphasis. Didn't need it...at all. Somewhere around the third or fourth book and author began using quotation marks around a single word to indicate emphasis. Ugh. NO that ain't grammatically correct.
There was a sex scandal a group of 7 upper classmen had hired prostitutes for sex and they pimped these women to other cadets. Missy broke that up but it seems like West Point has actually a better system to handle this type of thing compared to other military academies.
So the books progress to the point where Missy discovered she can teleport about 500 miles at a time so the FBI has her infiltrating enemy computers with virus. Everybody partners up, marry or have relationships and merrily have sex sex sex sex sex. Uh gets a little repetitive. I reached a point where I ignored the boring bits and paged ahead about five pages of panting and thrusting.
Also the author recapped endlessly the subsequent books had to tell 35% of the previous damn story and that AFTER a good three chapter Prologue. If the author is THAT short on word count, time to develop the characters.
The only thing we ever hear about Missy's internal dialog is that she compartmentalizes well, pain, anyone killed in battle, etc. Oh and she has bonded with her soulmate and they chat telepathically with each other constantly. Isn't that kind of like texting and driving? Could be a BAD thing. SHUT UP MISSY!!!!
I enjoyed reading quite a few of the reviews. About half complained about the sex and at least one did a full analytical review pointing out grammatical errors and made actual suggestions. Hope the author reads it and took it to heart. I will check back to see if there any other Missy books. Hope she actually finishes West Point and goes on to Ranger and Seal school as those were goals of hers. Mebbe.
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