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[wulfmadchen]

Among the other books I chewed through on the honeymoon, I borrowed Patricia Briggs's Moon Called. It was a quick read, mostly pleasant if disposable-ish, and gave me more things to think about concerning the ongoing project that I've tentatively titled The Werewolf Novel That Doesn't Suck

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[witeiris]

So from reading this I am curious; have you read Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause? If not I would actually be some what shocked cuz I know both Ash and I are fans of the book. While it does lend itself more to a Young Adult reader I think it addresses some of the points you made, such as a believable ratio of female to male werewolves, as well as the need to hold down a normal job in order to successfully blend in with society and maintain a livelihood.
I only mention it because you had said you read very few novels like that, and it's a fairly quick and pleasant read.

[wulfmadchen]

I have read Blood and Chocolate, and mostly liked it quite a lot. It also had a glaring example of "'No' means 'Yes'," (Gabriel pursues Vivian, despite her rejection of him, which becomes potentially more squicky when you remember that she's a high-schooler and he's in his mid-to-late twenties; He "fixes" the deformity caused by the bullet she took by having sex with her in the last couple of pages) but came without some of the other things common to werewolf chick-lit that annoy me.

[swashbucklr]

trying to reconcile their condition with the need to hold down a job

Back when Laurell K Hamilton actually wrote stories instead of erotica, she did explore this a little, particularly with Richard, one of the local werewolves. He was a schoolteacher, and would have been fired had his lycanthropy been made public.

It wasn't dealt with a great deal, as the books were from Anita's perspective, but it was interesting.

[closetpuritan]

Have you read any books by Martin Millar? I've only read one, Lonely Werewolf Girl, but it does escape a lot of the tropes you've mentioned

[wulfmadchen]

I have read Lonely Werewolf Girl I second your evaluation of "more amusing than great." It was, while I was reading it, entertaining enough that I picked up The Good Fairies of New York when I found it at the used bookstore today.