Ah. Words to try and do this book the justice it deserves! It’s sometimes hard to write a review for a book that was just so damn good and enjoyable, that writing ‘it was great, I really enjoyed it!’ doesn’t quite cut it! Although it really was great and I enjoyed it from start to finish.

It was such a greatly crafted middle grade/ children’s book (but also a book a fully grown adult *ahem* me could enjoy). It had all the twists and turns, an ending I didn’t expect (I loved the turn of events this took!) and a promise for further books in the series which I think will make for spectacular reads.

I’m so intrigued into the direction these will take and can easily say I’ll be eagerly awaiting and on the lookout for follow ups. I can’t wait to join Sel, Elena and Ingrid again as they were such great characters navigating a really great landscape and the plot was epic. Enough said!

If you think of this book as a mish-mash of Teen Wolf and the Maze Runner, you will absolutely enjoy it! And me, coming off a six-season binge of Teen Wolf, absolutely devoured this (pun unintended, but I absolutely did appreciate the Sheriff Derek Hale pun myself).

It was such a cute but freaky romp into the supernatural, with kids having to face a werewolf phenomenon and just trying to honestly get through the note, mysteries abounding and parents conspicuously missing and found family. But the twist really surprised me, but in a good way, and really honed into the whole teenagers/kids know best and probably the most reasonable trope. Sel was a great main character, and I absolutely adored his friendships and his perspective on the world and plot.

Would wholeheartedly recommend this one!

Sel lives in a small town just being a teenager but once a month, when the moon is full, he takes his Mother to the basement and locks her into her cage.

In a world where a virus has made almost every adult a werewolf, the children lock up their parents and older siblings to protect themselves every month for the Confinement. But then the Turned start to escape and someone is watching, can Sel and her friends find out who before things really go to hell.

This was a really great read, it’s YA so although there is gore it is mild and this is really a character study on the teenagers. Their lives are so controlled, they cope the best they can knowing any day they could Turn. They enjoy their freedom when the moon is full but they are isolated, cut off, their location easily separated from the wider world. It seems like they have everything under control until they don’t!

Fast paced and a fun take on the werewolf genre, it is exciting and not too scary, a thriller that teens will love.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ebook to read and review.

Loved, loved, loved it! I absolutely love stories about the supernatural (werewolves, vampires etc). So I was really excited to dive into this one,
This one turned out to be an entirely different and fresh take on the subject. I zoomed through it, pretty much reading it in a day so that tells you everything,
Sel is such an endearing and likeable main character too. I'll definitely be picking up any sequels.

Bite risk, damn what a fun read this was
I'm not really one for werewolf stories as most of them are marked as adult and are just aren't for me.
Bite risk however was fun, funny with just that hint of horror and gore that puts it in the children/teen category but can be enjoyed by all people.
Reading from Sels' perspective works really well and he's beautifully written along with most of the side characters, my only issue is that I wish there could have been chapters from Elenas and Pedros' perspectives aswell.
I think that would have really rounded out some of the story near the end if it had Pedro's perspective on some events in there

But overall I absolutely loved this novel and hope that in the future we get more stories from this world and characters