The concept of this book was so unique and interesting!
Heidi is a high school girl who has everything a girl could want. But with a world where an infectious disease is present, and has the world on edge. So, can you really have it all? During Heidi's senior year, everything is supposed to go according to plan, until one night throws everything off course. This night leads to Heidi deciding what to do and if truly the life she had was all it was planned out to be....

I found myself drawn in the first half of the book. I was eating it up and didn't want to put it down! For a Young Adult book, I found this to be a perfect book for them! It mentions gore, explicit language, and a verbally abusive relationship. So with these warnings, I say this is more of an older young adult book.
The beginning of the book felt very eerie and had me feeling on edge, wondering how the world works. It gives very COVID-19 vibes. When the world was trying to figure out what to do. It's a book that handles times of uncertainty well and shows how many people react differently. I enjoyed seeing the parallels to the real world during times of mass pandemic.
I will say the random profession of love I was not the biggest fan of. It felt oddly placed in and kinda made it all drop flat. I wish it had been something they simply developed from sharing the experience.
Overall, for a Young Adult book, I enjoyed it!

Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me the opportunity to get an ARC of this book and review it!

I love a good werewolf book. It's one of my favorite tropes in horror fiction and this one starts out with a fantastic premise and then follows through on that.

In this world, people know that werewolves exist. For the past five years this werewolf "virus" has become part of daily life for everyone. From being swabbed, to having a curfew during full moons, to a specialized police force to take out and either detain or kill those infected.

Heidi is a rich girl who's had it easy, living in a wealthy area with the best protection system against these creatures when they turn. Until one night when someone breaks into her home to steal silver. They leave an area unprotected and all three are attacked. One is ripped apart but Heidi and Cam (one of the intruders) are injured, which means they are now infected.

As they run away to avoid the task force and trying to not kill anyone, they have to navigate this world where they are the hunted while trying to maintain their humanity. Along the way they'll search for a possible cure, get involved with a creepy woman who lives in the woods, and attempt to escape an agent hell bent on hunting them down.

This is more of a YA novel but it was great. The werewolves are terrifying, there's a good amount of blood and gore without that being the main focus, and several arcs from different characters which makes the book thrum along at a really good pace.

If you, like me, need another great werewolf book for your TBR, this is one I highly recommend.

I received an ARC of this book through Netgalley. This review is voluntary and is my own personal opinion.

The book starts off like an extremely cliche high school movie. I’m pretty sure the exact scenes have already happened countless times in media. But like, respectfully. This book reads like a super campy werewolf movie and it was really fun to read. It’s also extremely interesting to see how COVID has impacted werewolf stories.

It’d be interesting to see where the story may go after this first book, because I definitely don’t think I would’ve gone the way the main character did, and I’m wondering if I may change my mind a bit if there’s more development after the kids become a little less like….kids. I don’t have the moral conundrums Heidi has but I understand why she may have been written like that for a YA novel.

My only complaint about the book is just that there was a super unnecessary romance in there.

Loved the premise of this book!
Unfortunately, I wanted to like/care about the characters, but I was just missing something to do that.