Anne’s guest review of Confessions of a Werewolf Supermodel by Ronda Thompson
Paranormal romance published 2 Oct 07 by St. Martin’s

When I saw this book, I thought it looked good. Then I received the ARC and feared it would be all about the chick lit. Thankfully, I was wrong. This book does have a supermodel who likes clothes (well, duh), but it’s not chick lit—at least not to me. In fact, it’s not really a romance either. I’m not sure what category I’d label it under, but it was fun and kept me enthralled from beginning to end.

Blurb:

Supermodel Lou Kipinski seems to have it all. But beauty is only skin deep-and sometimes Lou’s porcelain complexion can get a bit hairy. The only thing worse than a furry fashion faux-pas? Fangs in her million-dollar smile. That’s what happened six months ago, when Lou had her first outbreak. But now that she’s at the height of her career she absolutely must find a cure…So what’s a single werewolf gotta do? Then a sexy detective comes knocking on her door. Two women who bear an eerie resemblance to Lou have been killed-something with teeth and claws tore them apart. Is it a coincidence that the grisly murders have taken place during the same time as Lou’s own outbreaks? With a killer at her heels and another outbreak just a concealer-wand’s distance away, Lou is soon in a race to discover truths about her own murky past. And before it’s all over she may be forced to show the world that her bark is nothing compared to her bite…

Read an excerpt.

I’m not going to summarize the book because the blurb does a really great job in itself, but here are my thoughts: this book surprised me as did Ms Thompson’s voice. She reminded me a lot of Janet Evanovich’s Plum novels. Fun, witty, surprising, and just overall enjoyable.

This book is written in first person, and to me that’s usually the kiss of death for a book, but not so with this one. I enjoyed it immensely. The zaniness of a female model being a werewolf. Imagine being a supermodel and growing hair in ridiculous places during PMS and having to wax before a shoot… well, that’s Lou, the heroine.

Then the murders, her search for her biological parents, her missing adoptive parents, her friend Cindy, the photographer Stefan who sleeps around but is in love with Lou, and a blast-from-the-past that shocks Lou out of human form and into werewolf. The many twists that kept me entertained enough that I didn’t want to put it down.

When I finished, I was psyched and so looking forward to a sequel. Then I learned of Ms Thompson’s recent death after a battle with cancer and was deeply saddened. It’s tragic. There’s no author’s website.

I thoroughly enjoyed CofaWS and I think you would as well.

Grade: A

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