Book 94, 2020

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How to Date a Werewolf by Rose Pressey

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



Stayed up a tad late last night to finish reading the ebook How to Date a Werewolf, which is the first installment in Rose Pressey's "Rylie Cruz" series, featuring werewolf and matchmaker to the supernatural, Rylie Cruz.

Due to a family curse, Rylie has resigned herself to never finding love of her own. Instead, she's turned her attention to her own matchmaking service, Get a Mate, for werewolves and other paranormal denizens. Her fledgling business takes a hit when one of her clients, Lily Friedman, is spurned by the match Rylie made for her. Lily makes it her business to harass and torment Rylie. At the same time, Jack Chandler, a psychiatrist, sets up shop next door and also takes up residence in the apartment over his office. He and Rylie are now neighbors both in business and life. At the urging of her roomie, Jennifer, Rylie begins to date Jack. She didn't mean to fall so hard or fast, and now she has to deal with both the curse and the ramifications of dating a mortal. Rylie's situation just gets worse when she is stalked and threatened by an unsavory pair of werewolves. Now she's scrambling to keep her business afloat, her budding relationship with Jack from crumbling, and her distance from the other werewolves who seem to have it in for her. It's a good thing Rylie is one tough cookie.

I always enjoy the premises of Pressey's books, but her execution often fails to deliver. This story was mediocre. It was lite and fun, but also somewhat confusing. For instance, I was never quite certain, when Rylie shifted into werewolf, if she was in complete wolf form, or if she was some sort of hairy, lupine-hominid mix. At least the editing in this one wasn't terrible.

Favorite lines:
♦ Some days you should stay in bed, and this day turned out to be one of them.
♦ ...I sympathized with their pickle.
♦ "Ghost Hunters is on with Jason and Grant."

It was okaa-aay. Nothing remarkable about the story. Average score.