
Added on January 15, 2026
Missy the Werecat: Book IWhen puberty brings on her first Shift, Missy goes into the mountains for two years until finally learning to Change back. She can Change from fully human in one instant to a mountain lion in the next. Everyone assumes her two year disappearance was because she’d been kidnapped by a sexual predator that she managed to kill.She keeps her werecat nature a secret. There is no pack, no pride of other werecats and no alpha. She’s a girl with fantastic abilities growing up and learning to do great things in today’s world, amongst humans. She only has her instincts to guide her and those drive her to train herself to extremes. She must control those instincts; dampening the wild predator is often necessary. Her raging hormones and enhanced senses require very strong controls; she explores what happens when those controls are relaxed.
Missy is a werecat. That's the best I can say about this book. It's terrible.
I was given this book in exchange for my honest review.Full disclosure: I am an adult who loves YA and NA books, and, although that usually isn't a problem, it might have been here. About half way into the book I realized this was not the book for me. I continued reading it, of course, to be able to review it. And I know many people who reviewed it have enjoyed it, so maybe it really was just me. But anyway, these are my thoughts:The premiss is really interesting, and although I have read about
*I received a free copy from the author in exchange for an honest review*The book's premise was really interesting, a teenager who is a popular and promising young athlete, spending a normal summer at camp; when suddenly she is forced away from the world she knows and changes into an animal. She has no one to turn to and has to struggle to learn what is happening for herself.When Allison asked me to review this, I was already hooked.But I honestly struggled with this book.The writing style is to