Werewoofs was a fun read; although the story was a little more intense than I expected. I appreciated that it centred around a group of misfits too. Bonus: The illustrations were cute!

Werewoofs is a super fun and sweet graphic novel about a werewolf girl who befriends a group of her classmates after they start transforming into wolves. I loved the found family that comes with the friend group, and I loved the honest conversations about grief. This was also a new and fun take on the werewolf story which I adored. The cast was diverse, the romances felt realistic for high school characters and the art was great. My only issue comes with one of the members of the friend group, who does something super creepy and weird and never faces repercussions for it. Still, I'll recommend this to students, and will definitely be checking out Val Wise's back-catalog.

EDIT: The reason these characters can turn into dogs is buckwild insane. I was truly shocked and disturbed so just be aware of this going into it.

This is a mystery of a werewolf girl named Mara whose life goes a little unrailed. Her father mysteriously, and uts up to her to find him. She, also, has to help four classmates find their way into being WereWoofs!

I loved the art work and story. There was so much going on, but it was nicely paced. I loved Mara. She was strong willed and dedicated to her beliefs. I adored each challenge the friends went through in order to make their lives and WereWoofs synch.

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A brilliant story with themes on friendship, family and finding one's purpose. Mara is a werewolf who fits into the human world. Her dad goes missing and her cousin resumes the Alpha's position. Throw in some tainted pet food and we have a conundrum. I look forward to the next installment.

First off, love that title. It's extremely cute. Second, this book is great fun. The colorful art pops off the page, and the diverse cast of likeable yet realistically flawed characters drive the plot. Lycanthropy as a metaphor has been harnessed towards many ends, and it is used very well here to explore the struggles of fitting in, discovering who you are, navigating family relationships, and growing up.

I didn't really know what to expect but it was not this. Overall I really like this graphic novel. The art style was super cute and I loved the colors used. It was equal parts cute as it was kind of horrifying.

High school kids turning into were-dogs and befriending the local werewolf child - Adorable.

Killing main character's dad, turning him into canned dog food, then feeding said dogfood to local pound dogs who then bite the high school kids and turn them into were-dogs - horrifying.

Throughout the story we see a well rounded narrative.

This is a cute, but also fairly odd graphic novel. I had fun with the characters and seeing their individual growth, as well as deeper bonding as a group after learning they’re all were-dogs. I did think the way things ended up with Mara’s dad and what caused the dogs to bite Jae, Isabelle, Alvern, and Lorenzo was a little much, but I did still enjoy the characters. Overall this was a fun and interesting graphic novel, and I hope there’ll be a sequel after that ending!

Review to come November 19th to blog/goodreads.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

This was such a fun, at times funny, read! Perfect for the Halloween season (which is when I read the book). There are werewolves, cute weredogs, friendship, LGBT and normal romance that had me shipping a lot, and more. 

Meet Mara, a werewolf girl who lives with her dad and her cousin. Everything seems fine.. until her father disappears and her schoolfriends are attacked by dogs and turn into weredogs. I really loved Mara and loved that despite everything she stood up for herself and didn't let her worthless cousin control her. It wasn't the easiest decision and I really wanted to give her a hug, but I was also proud of her. I love that she took that group of schoolmates under her wings and tried to help them as much as she could, however I do feel that she could have at least told them the truth. I do understand why not, but I just wish she had. Now you can just guess what happens when they find out. :| I loved how Mara made plans to stop her cousin and I loved how she and her new friends tried to make all the plans. 

The friends/schoolmates at first, I loved it. OK, I did feel sorry for them that they are now weredogs. One day you are struggling through life as a teen and the next you are also a weredog and have to control that (because emotions, yay). But I loved that we learned more and more about them and saw them learn about their powers and get better at controlling them. Especially Lorenzo and Alvern from the group got some extra attention. 

As I said there is plenty of romance and plenty of times I found myself rooting for these characters. For instance one of the guys Lorenzo is in love with another guy at school and I just had a laugh how he used his weredoggy powers to find out more about the guy. Maybe not entirely the right way to find out about your crush, but I just found it adorable and hoped that Lorenzo would one day be able to just be himself with the guy. Not his dog. But himself. 

Zev was just a big fat nope for me. I didn't like the guy from the moment I saw him. Something just was off about him. I definitely wasn't a fan. And throughout the book I got more and more angry at the guy. For doing what he did. For rallying the other werewolves like that, knowing full well that they would have a hard time saying no because of the alpha stuff + the fact that this is their home. I was hoping someone would bring Zev down a nudge or twenty.... 

The ending was so very much action-packed and I was on the edge of my seat (well, curling up in bed actually) to see how it all would end. About Mara's dad. About Zev. About the big robbery. About everything. And I just love love love that the author gave us a sort of epilogue in which we see more about the characters and what happens next. One scene had me almost crying (the one with the wolves at Mara's house). 

The art was really well done, I love the style. 

All in all, HIGHLY recommended. This was so much fun! Full of exciting things. Weredogs and werewolves. It was fab!

The art is nice. The story wasn't good though. The writing was kind of awkward, and the pacing was weird too. We kept getting snippets of something, then you turn the page and it's a few days later. We didn't get to know the characters intimately, and I didn't really care how their friendships/relationships developed because of it

I received a copy of this graphic novel through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

It was quite an interesting story with a bit of grotesque twists but mostly cute and fun. I liked the characters and their budding friendships and romances. I absolutely loved the whole were-dog business and the art was great! The slight cliffhanger in the end shows some intriguing possibilities for the next volume and I would most definitely like to read it! 😊

I’d like to thank netgalley and the publisher for an advance copy in exchange for for an honest review. I enjoyed the premise of this and the art but unfortunately the print was too small and some words were cut off on the right side of the page

What I read of this graphic novel was cute, however, because I read on my phone, and am apparently getting too old to read a very small print without glasses I wasn't able to really read all of it.

I did think the illustrations were very good and the writing from what I could read was headed in a great direction. I just couldn't finish the story because it hurt my eyes.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing an eARC of this title in exchange for my honest review.

I really liked the art style which is no surprise as I have enjoyed this artists other work in the past. The character design was very strong and helped give you a feel for each character.

I thought the concept was interesting (even if how these events came to play was surprisingly grizzly) and the author played with some interesting concepts such as the cycles of poverty and how negative stereotypes can trap people in certain situations.

I did get a feeling this was a longer script that was edited down as some of the jumps were a bit sudden and the characters introductions were a bit rushed. Also I'm not sure if this was an issue with my copy but some of the panels in the first half of the novel seemed out of order (this could be just a symptom of reading the book digitally and might have been easier to read with side by side pages).

Overall this was an enjoyable book that had some very nice art and some very cute weredogs.

This was a really fun take on the werewolf. The dog aspect was really fun and cute. The characters were fun and I really liked them. The plot was fun and interesting. It had some great twist and was really interesting. I can not wait for the next issue to come out!

Werewoofs is about a group of teenager who turned into werewolves, but not exactly..

The premise of this book sounded really interesting, it reminded me of the show Teenwolf, which I love. But I didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would. I love the art, but the story didn’t interest me and felt rushed.

I enjoyed this graphic novel! I have loved other pieces illustrated by Val Wise and this was no different, great art style with a bit of heart.

A fun and simple read about a Midwestern town of Howlett where the human occupants of the town live as neighbors to werewolves. Four students at the local high school get bitten by dogs and become weredogs. They team up with another high schooler who is a werewolf in order to figure out what happened and what's actually going on in the town. The story was a bit lackluster, but had a good foundation. The illustrations were great, though!

The title is what drew me in. I really enjoyed the artwork in this. Unfortunately the font was extremely small which made it harder to read.