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Shadow Zone #2
Guess Who's Dating a Werewolf?
Annie has always had a crush on her older sister Sara's boyfriend, Jake Wolfe . . . until she witnesses Jake's transformation, under the full moon, into a werewolf! Annie's sure Sara is going to be his next victim--and breaking them up has now become a matter of life and death!
- GenresYoung Adult
124 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
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August 14, 2019
"But you can't tell your parents everything. Some things—like stories of werewolves and Shadow Zones—are better left untold."
—Guess Who's Dating a Werewolf?, P. 113
Sixth-grader Annie Dubinski unwittingly enters the Shadow Zone when a late night walk brings her face to face with a werewolf. Annie starts school tomorrow, but her fifteen-year-old sister Sara's first day isn't for another week. Listening to Sara and her friends party on the other side of the bedroom wall annoys Annie, so she slips out the window for a walk in the woods to Graystone Point. What Annie sees there beneath the pale moonlight chills her to the bone. A hairy teenager with razor-sharp teeth and claws howls into the night sky, and though neighbors later dismiss the eerie sound as a wounded animal's cry, Annie knows better. Her best friend, Lily Chin, believes Annie and encourages her to research werewolves. Is Annie in danger from the one she witnessed howling at the moon?
Scary as the encounter was, the wolfman can't get into the house. But that measure of reassurance is taken from Annie when she learns that Jake Woolverton, her sister's new motorcycle-riding boyfriend, is the werewolf. Lily tells Annie that in folklore, the human part of werewolves usually isn't usually aware of their actions when they transform, but but it turns out Jake is. He remembers seeing Annie through the bushes when she returned with Lily to Graystone Point for a closer look at the werewolf. Jake insists he wasn't attacking the girls when he tried to bite them; he thought they were small animals for him to hunt. He's not a villain, Jake says, just a teenager bitten by a wolflike creature before his family moved to town. He seems sincere, and treats Sara decently, but does Annie believe him?
The only way to guarantee safety from Jake is to avoid Graystone Point until the moon's cycle changes. That's no problem for Annie and Lily—they were terrified when Jake chased them the other night—but can they stop Sara from meeting him in the woods? The Tar Street boys, a group of kids who regularly tease Annie to get a rise out of her, will also be difficult to keep away from Jake. Rusty McDowell, their leader, wants to believe he's better than Annie at doing tricks on the rope swing at Graystone Point. Rusty irritates Annie, but she doesn't want him killed by a werewolf. Time is running out for Annie and Lily to neutralize Jake before someone gets hurt.
Guess Who's Dating a Werewolf? is fairly impressive for the juvenile horror subgenre. The narrative makes sense, and veers in directions I didn't expect. This isn't just another retread of the classic wolfman story. There's even a touch of poignancy to the ending, as Sara shows signs of maturing past the emotional highs and lows of adolescence. I'd go as far as saying Guess Who's Dating a Werewolf? is better than R.L. Stine's The Werewolf of Fever Swamp from the original Goosebumps series, and I might rate it two and a half stars. Shadow Zone, at its best, is worth reading.
—Guess Who's Dating a Werewolf?, P. 113
Sixth-grader Annie Dubinski unwittingly enters the Shadow Zone when a late night walk brings her face to face with a werewolf. Annie starts school tomorrow, but her fifteen-year-old sister Sara's first day isn't for another week. Listening to Sara and her friends party on the other side of the bedroom wall annoys Annie, so she slips out the window for a walk in the woods to Graystone Point. What Annie sees there beneath the pale moonlight chills her to the bone. A hairy teenager with razor-sharp teeth and claws howls into the night sky, and though neighbors later dismiss the eerie sound as a wounded animal's cry, Annie knows better. Her best friend, Lily Chin, believes Annie and encourages her to research werewolves. Is Annie in danger from the one she witnessed howling at the moon?
Scary as the encounter was, the wolfman can't get into the house. But that measure of reassurance is taken from Annie when she learns that Jake Woolverton, her sister's new motorcycle-riding boyfriend, is the werewolf. Lily tells Annie that in folklore, the human part of werewolves usually isn't usually aware of their actions when they transform, but but it turns out Jake is. He remembers seeing Annie through the bushes when she returned with Lily to Graystone Point for a closer look at the werewolf. Jake insists he wasn't attacking the girls when he tried to bite them; he thought they were small animals for him to hunt. He's not a villain, Jake says, just a teenager bitten by a wolflike creature before his family moved to town. He seems sincere, and treats Sara decently, but does Annie believe him?
The only way to guarantee safety from Jake is to avoid Graystone Point until the moon's cycle changes. That's no problem for Annie and Lily—they were terrified when Jake chased them the other night—but can they stop Sara from meeting him in the woods? The Tar Street boys, a group of kids who regularly tease Annie to get a rise out of her, will also be difficult to keep away from Jake. Rusty McDowell, their leader, wants to believe he's better than Annie at doing tricks on the rope swing at Graystone Point. Rusty irritates Annie, but she doesn't want him killed by a werewolf. Time is running out for Annie and Lily to neutralize Jake before someone gets hurt.
Guess Who's Dating a Werewolf? is fairly impressive for the juvenile horror subgenre. The narrative makes sense, and veers in directions I didn't expect. This isn't just another retread of the classic wolfman story. There's even a touch of poignancy to the ending, as Sara shows signs of maturing past the emotional highs and lows of adolescence. I'd go as far as saying Guess Who's Dating a Werewolf? is better than R.L. Stine's The Werewolf of Fever Swamp from the original Goosebumps series, and I might rate it two and a half stars. Shadow Zone, at its best, is worth reading.
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