"The Girl's Guide to Werewolves" By Barb Karg

Title: The Girl's Guide to Werewolves: All You Need to Know About the Original Untamed Bad Boys
Author: Barb Karg
Published Year: 176 pages
Published Year: 2009

If you have any interest about werewolves at all, this is a good reference for all things werewolves. Not only does the author provide historical reference stories and legends in general about werewolves, she goes one step further and looks at the cultural aspects of werewolves in film and books. The title is accurate, as many of the undertones that are used in the book are directed at girls or the female population rather than the male population. An example would be how the author portrays the hunkiness of certain actors in their roles as werewolves. You won't find a guy referring to another guy as hunky too often.

The book is set up well, as it flows well and throughout the entire book if there is something that can be referenced back to another chapter the author puts a notation in to see that previous or future chapter. In addition to this, each chapter is set up well with headers for the different paragraphs which enables the reader to find and locate portions they are interested in quickly.

One warning I will provide to the reader is that if you have not read or seen some of the movies that are mentioned within this book, there can be spoiler alerts. In order to fully explain some of the plots and the werewolf connections, the author has a tendency to tell the whole general story of some books without a warning that she will be giving away what happens in the end. As a cultural example this is good as it brings more understanding, but if you have not read one of the works and you do not want a spoiler alert, you will want to skip over some sections. Luckily the author titles all the paragraphs in a way so the reader can identify which sections they want to skip over.

Another criticism I have is that there is no bibliography included within the covers of this book. Since it is a work of non-fiction and does include historical references as well as current events it is one thing that I look for. There is an index but no bibliography. It would have been nice to see where she pooled all of her sources from for my own comfort and for further study as I like to do.