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Firstly, sixteen -year -old Drew is a brilliant hero – an everyman who is left frantically trying to work out how he can be a werewolf without knowing it, and desperately trying to gain control over the beast within and use it to help people in a land ruled with an iron paw by the tyrannous King Leopold and his son Prince Lucas. Similarly, the villains – Leopold, Lucas, the Rat King, and various others – are pure evil, while Drew meets some engaging friends on his travels, including some of the other Werelords, caught between their naturaldesire for fairness and their responsibility to the people they rule over not to provoke Leopold.

Secondly, the werecreatures are fantastic – none of these lovelorn puppies imprinting on people (I’m looking at YOU Jacob Black!), but fierce fighters and valiant warriors, ranging from werebears and werefoxes to weresharks and werevermin. No mention yet of wereinsects, unless I missed it, but the boy telling Drew about the Werelords does stress that there are probably as yet unknown ones around. The world Curtis Jobling has created is deeply layered, with huge amounts of history and mythology in there and it’s incredible that there’sthere are currently only two books confirmed in the series – surely he'll need at least a dozen to do the realm of Lyssia justice!

Incredibly highly recommended to young adult readers of 12 upwards, particularly boys – this one will get some of the guys who normally wouldn’t pick up a book if you paid them completely and utterly hooked. Here’s hoping to many more adventures in Wereworld! (From the information we find out about the fall of Wergar the Wolf kingKing, a prequel would have me stampeding over people to get to the counter with it!)

For more thrilling action of a supernatural bent, I really enjoyed [[Mortlock by Jon Mayhew]]. Two more fantastic series aimed at young teen boys, set firmly in the real world, are [[Sudden Death (Striker) by Nick Hale|Striker by Nick Hale]] and [[The Last Thing I Remember (Homelander) by Andrew Klavan|Homelander by Andrew Klavan]]. We can also recommend [[Wereworld: War of the Werelords by Curtis Jobling|Wereworld: War of the Werelords]] by Curtis Jobling.