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The Wereling #2
Prey
Kate Folan comes from a family of werewolves. She'll only become fully 'wolf herself when she mates with a male werewolf. But she vows that will never happen. The last thing she wants is to give in to her evil heritage.
Then she meets Tom Anderson. Tom is a wereling--a werewolf who retains his humanity even in his wolf form. He was "turned" by Kate's mother, who chose wisely. Tom and Kate can't help falling for each other. But if they give in to their feelings, Kate will become the thing she hates most. Unless they can find a cure. . . .
Then she meets Tom Anderson. Tom is a wereling--a werewolf who retains his humanity even in his wolf form. He was "turned" by Kate's mother, who chose wisely. Tom and Kate can't help falling for each other. But if they give in to their feelings, Kate will become the thing she hates most. Unless they can find a cure. . . .
261 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 17, 2004
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Stephen Cole
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Stephen Cole (born 1971) is an English author of children's books and science fiction. He was also in charge of BBC Worldwide's merchandising of the BBC Television series Doctor Who between 1997 and 1999: this was a role which found him deciding on which stories should be released on video, commissioning and editing a range of fiction and non-fiction titles, producing audiobooks and acting as executive producer on the Big Finish Productions range of Doctor Who audio dramas.
Stephen Cole (born 1971) is an English author of children's books and science fiction. He was also in charge of BBC Worldwide's merchandising of the BBC Television series Doctor Who between 1997 and 1999: this was a role which found him deciding on which stories should be released on video, commissioning and editing a range of fiction and non-fiction titles, producing audiobooks and acting as executive producer on the Big Finish Productions range of Doctor Who audio dramas.
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September 19, 2024
Can't remember much, as I read this as a teenager. But I do remember liking this series
March 25, 2019
Didn’t feel like a sequel so much as a filler book. Finally got to meet certain characters and that lasted two minutes while eons where spent on others. Mostly just Kate being peeved there is another girl around and Tom being a dimwit.
January 2, 2021
Really loved this book! My favourite werewolf trilogy by far, and I’ve only read the first two. Can’t wait to read the final one and possibly check out more from this author.
December 19, 2014
Having escaped Tapaka, Tom and Kate aim to find Jicaque and a possible cure before Kate's mother recovers enough to start after them again. The address: New York, New York. But far from getting them away from werewolf troubles, the city drags them deeper than ever. Street gangs are bad enough; werewolf gangs bring a whole new dimension to the perpetual gang wars. Tom has to find Jicaque fast, before the trouble they've unwittingly stepped into swallows them whole.
Like before, this book delivers a fast-paced ride. This time it snakes through the underbelly of New York, landing Tom and Kate in the middle of one of the only human gangs left in the city. Ramon and his gang make a welcome addition, because they stick around long enough to get some real characterization. And although the book is crammed with werewolves, there's a better sense of them being a small community in the larger human world.
Although a number of surprising betrayals add variety to the fairly cardboard thugs working for evil, most of the danger still comes from muscle-bound wolfmen who can't stop trying to sleep with Kate. The plot is still fairly light, with just enough hints of world-dominating conspiracy, Native American magic, and genetic experiments to give it some structure; most of the time the book follows Tom or Kate as they run from one drooling wolfman into the arms of another (or the cops).
This was better than the last book, though I still find little to recommend it. The whole problem of female purebloods hasn't gone away, and this book seemed less interested in exploring werewolves than it was in throwing them at Tom and Kate. Still, it isn't a terrible read, merely a predictable one. I rate this book Neutral.
Like before, this book delivers a fast-paced ride. This time it snakes through the underbelly of New York, landing Tom and Kate in the middle of one of the only human gangs left in the city. Ramon and his gang make a welcome addition, because they stick around long enough to get some real characterization. And although the book is crammed with werewolves, there's a better sense of them being a small community in the larger human world.
Although a number of surprising betrayals add variety to the fairly cardboard thugs working for evil, most of the danger still comes from muscle-bound wolfmen who can't stop trying to sleep with Kate. The plot is still fairly light, with just enough hints of world-dominating conspiracy, Native American magic, and genetic experiments to give it some structure; most of the time the book follows Tom or Kate as they run from one drooling wolfman into the arms of another (or the cops).
This was better than the last book, though I still find little to recommend it. The whole problem of female purebloods hasn't gone away, and this book seemed less interested in exploring werewolves than it was in throwing them at Tom and Kate. Still, it isn't a terrible read, merely a predictable one. I rate this book Neutral.
August 14, 2014
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Tom and Kate are back, and as they were in Wounded, they're on the run from some nasty werewolves, trying to find Jicaque (the medicine man who can make Tom fully human again), and all that fun stuff. After the fallout in New Orleans, they've escaped to New York--but of course trouble followed the two teenagers there.
Prey begins not longer after when Wounded left off, but Tom and Kate are now in New York. It doesn't take long for them to find danger--and a new group of friends and help. After saving Ramon from a bunch of 'wolves, they meet him and his crew: Jasmine, Rico, Polar, and a few others. Together, Tom and Kate, and Ramon, Rico, and Jasmine, search for a cure and try to figure out what Takapa, the big bad wolf, is up to. They know people are being turned 'wolf every day and that there's bracket-style fighting happening (headed by a nasty werewolf guy named Swagger), and also a serum for the wolves (thus introducing Stacy Stein), but they don't know why.
I know I mentioned it in my review for Wounded, the first book, but I love this series. For one, it has WEREWOLVES. And it really is pretty simple, but there's something about it that makes it so readable and lovable. I don't know if I like Prey as much as Wounded, but whatever. This series has great characters and some super cool scenes, and I don't know that I'll ever tire of it. And I know this review is on the shorter side, but so is the book! The only thing I have left to say is: READ IT! And now, I'm on to book three, Resurrection!
Tom and Kate are back, and as they were in Wounded, they're on the run from some nasty werewolves, trying to find Jicaque (the medicine man who can make Tom fully human again), and all that fun stuff. After the fallout in New Orleans, they've escaped to New York--but of course trouble followed the two teenagers there.
Prey begins not longer after when Wounded left off, but Tom and Kate are now in New York. It doesn't take long for them to find danger--and a new group of friends and help. After saving Ramon from a bunch of 'wolves, they meet him and his crew: Jasmine, Rico, Polar, and a few others. Together, Tom and Kate, and Ramon, Rico, and Jasmine, search for a cure and try to figure out what Takapa, the big bad wolf, is up to. They know people are being turned 'wolf every day and that there's bracket-style fighting happening (headed by a nasty werewolf guy named Swagger), and also a serum for the wolves (thus introducing Stacy Stein), but they don't know why.
I know I mentioned it in my review for Wounded, the first book, but I love this series. For one, it has WEREWOLVES. And it really is pretty simple, but there's something about it that makes it so readable and lovable. I don't know if I like Prey as much as Wounded, but whatever. This series has great characters and some super cool scenes, and I don't know that I'll ever tire of it. And I know this review is on the shorter side, but so is the book! The only thing I have left to say is: READ IT! And now, I'm on to book three, Resurrection!
September 28, 2007
Tom and kate head to new york in search of jicaque, instead one night they encounter a boy their age who was being chased by a pack of werewolves. Tom scared away the wolves and they stayed at ramons place. Kate and tom find out their ramon and his friends are rebels of the newly turned wolves. Tapaka, the leader of thw wolves, is turning those in poor parts of the city into werewolves, and making them serve him. Ramons hideout gets raided by tapakas followers and were forced to run away. Ramon gets injured and they take him to a doctor whose also a friend of ramons people. The doctor turns out to be a traitor and is working for tapaka. Stacy, another doctor who works in a hostpical and is secretly developing a serum that relives the wolves desire for human flesh. Little did she know that the other doc is giving her the wrong ingredients and creating a high addictive substance that drives the werewolves mad and begging for more of the substance, tapaka uses this to bring wolves under his control. Near the end jicaque gets in contact with Jason, and Jason decided to not turn back to human, at least not yet, until the job is done. In the end it turns out that jicaque was ahead of the game and altered the substance so that the wolves would change back into humans, permanently. However tapaka gets away and the story continues in the next book.
December 26, 2015
I just loved this series. I thought the first book was a little slow in the very beginning but once you get past the turning point its actually quite good. I couldn't wait to get to the library to get book two and three!
The book is much like the Twilight series or Harry Potter series, except that this one is a werewolf community. Its a very smooth and easy read like the series I mentioned above. They are quite a bit smaller then those books but very good.
The main characters are around 16-17 and even though there is attraction there, its ill-fated. The mother of the girl is horrific as is her brother. There are a few parts that are kind of disturbing, maybe a bit to graphic for young readers, but they are few and far between and add to the gruesome life being depicted here.
Book two brings us new dangers and new characters. The books don't end at book one and immediately pick up in the next book, but there is not a lot of time spanning between the two books, the whole story takes place over the period of several months.
I thought it was great to read a series for young teens/adults revolving around werewolves instead of the ever popular vampires! I love the vampire stories but this was a great change and I thoroughly enjoyed it!!
The book is much like the Twilight series or Harry Potter series, except that this one is a werewolf community. Its a very smooth and easy read like the series I mentioned above. They are quite a bit smaller then those books but very good.
The main characters are around 16-17 and even though there is attraction there, its ill-fated. The mother of the girl is horrific as is her brother. There are a few parts that are kind of disturbing, maybe a bit to graphic for young readers, but they are few and far between and add to the gruesome life being depicted here.
Book two brings us new dangers and new characters. The books don't end at book one and immediately pick up in the next book, but there is not a lot of time spanning between the two books, the whole story takes place over the period of several months.
I thought it was great to read a series for young teens/adults revolving around werewolves instead of the ever popular vampires! I love the vampire stories but this was a great change and I thoroughly enjoyed it!!
February 15, 2013
Categorised as juvenile fiction, though Prey isn't overly graphic or lengthy in its descriptions of blood and gore there was more, a lot more, of it than I would have expected which combined with the fact it occasionally strays into some pretty adult issues makes it, in my opinion, only really suitable for older teenage readers up. And yet, that said, I'm curious as to just how many older teenagers/young adults would find this too tame, the issues raised not quite sophisticated enough.
Trying hard not to include any spoilers, I think I'll leave it as there was nothing fresh in the telling of this story, its central themes of something (or someone) preying on the vulnerable to what ends I won't say and, the search for a cure having been featured in several other books of this genre not too mention the 'gladiatorial' element which was recently featured on a tv series starring a ghost, a vampire and, a werewolf
Part 2 in a trilogy, do I think I would have gained anything by reading part 1 first? Not something I can say for definite but I strongly believe not.
Copyright: Petty Witter @ Pen and Paper.
Trying hard not to include any spoilers, I think I'll leave it as there was nothing fresh in the telling of this story, its central themes of something (or someone) preying on the vulnerable to what ends I won't say and, the search for a cure having been featured in several other books of this genre not too mention the 'gladiatorial' element which was recently featured on a tv series starring a ghost, a vampire and, a werewolf
Part 2 in a trilogy, do I think I would have gained anything by reading part 1 first? Not something I can say for definite but I strongly believe not.
Copyright: Petty Witter @ Pen and Paper.
January 18, 2008
After escaping the clutches of the evil Folan parents with their daughter, Kate, Tom Anderson is on the run from werewolves everywhere. Some, like Kate's crazy mom, are out for revenge, while others, like the mysterious Takapa, want to use his unusual characteristics for their own nefarious purposes. You see, Tom has finally accepted that he is now a "wereling," a human being who can change into wolf form like the werewolves but not lose his sense of self in the process. But he still wants to be cured, and for that, he and Kate need to track down a mysterious medicine man who is rumored to have the secrets.
Another action-filled volume on The Wereling trilogy, this book did not let up the pace established in the first book one bit. Fun read, and hard to put down. I would especially recommend this series to fans of "Blood and Chocolate" and the Twilight series.
Another action-filled volume on The Wereling trilogy, this book did not let up the pace established in the first book one bit. Fun read, and hard to put down. I would especially recommend this series to fans of "Blood and Chocolate" and the Twilight series.
October 6, 2009
First of all, I was so glad to find this at Books-a-million ($1.97 peoples!) because it's unavailable at Amazon. This is the second book in the trilogy and I enjoyed it a lot. I like that the author has his own, original thing with the wolves going on. The characters continue to be written solidly and well developed. I also like that Kate and Tom's relationship is developing at a believable speed. It's a big part of the story, but takes a back seat to the actual plot when it needs to. Can't wait to read the last book!
July 24, 2016
This second installment of the Wereling Trilogy is pretty exciting stuff! This is far more original than some other young adult paranormal novels and occasionally strays into some very adult themes (although there has been no sex so far, there has been the threat that Kate may be taken by force if her mother gets her hands on her and into the very situation Kate is trying to avoid). It’s quite gritty in places and there have been some real thrills so far. I’m looking forward to the final part now…
November 22, 2013
This book was a great addition to the series. It kept adding more and more suspense to the story line. I kept thinking how are they going to get out of this one. All of the new challenges they faced and the new people they meet kept the story going strong. Overall a great book. Would definitely recommend for somebody into werewolves.
September 10, 2008
the second book of the wereling trilogy--this time the action is in new york to battle the albino werewolf takano. tom, the wereling, is still in search of the shaman jicaqui to cure him of his were side.
September 22, 2008
This book is the second book of the series. This book is alot like the first but it takes a darker twist to the story, all the clasic characters are here and more, it has many scenes that will disgust and surprise you. I enjoyed this book very much. If you like the first read the second.
April 15, 2016
A slightly dissapointing series, worth a read is you have nothing else available. Nowhere near as developed as other paranormal stuff, the plot is thin on the ground and all a little too easy. I would recommened Kelley Armstrong Darkest powers trilogy as a superior read. Start with the Summoning.
October 14, 2007
even better than the first.
February 19, 2009
The second insallment is as fast-paced and action-packed as the original. Fast and enjoyable reads.
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July 9, 2009awesome book. however i don't recomend reading the second in a series without reading the first. you can pick up on some of the missing info although not all.
June 28, 2010
My favourite of the 3.
May 21, 2010
Diz book go hard ey eey eeey
December 23, 2010
My favourite of the trilogy! It's terror and excitement page after page.
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July 27, 2011Lot's of ex deuce machina .
October 3, 2011
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March 2, 2012
I feel as though this book was just a kind of repeat of the last book nothing new or diffrent really happened in it apart from Tom's more sure of him self and he knows what he is going to do next.
July 2, 2013
Enjoyed these books. I liked them better than Twilight series.
January 22, 2018
I read this book about 2yrs ago-before i came here to goodreads--
But i do remember this book is full of suspense and action and i had a hard time putting this book down
But i do remember this book is full of suspense and action and i had a hard time putting this book down
January 18, 2016
This is the best book I have read so far in my entire werewolf books.
June 24, 2016
Really loved the second book in this series. Liked it a lot and would recommend this book series to anyone who likes or loves supernatural.
September 16, 2016
Chaotic and badly paced. Lots of action without purpose. I can see why this sank into obscurity. What I don't understand is why Goodreads recommended it to me. Bad Goodreads, no cookies for you!
March 21, 2023
So bad. So so boring. Climax sucked and resolved way too cleanly.
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