Wordsville

*** (three stars – a good book as per Bookseller+Publisher ratings system)
Published by Transit Lounge, $29.95 tpb, ISBN 9780980571738, April

Welcome to Oatlands, Tasmania, home of the femme-werewolf apocalypse. Sixteen-year-old Sally Hunter is seriously pissed off and she’s turning into a powerful ‘monster dog’, a werewolf with one hell of an appetite for flesh — [...]

Kat Mayo runs Book Thingo, a blog focused on reading (mostly) romance books down under.
Who taught you to read and how old were you?
My family is big on literacy, and my mum read stories to me at every
chance. You know those vignettes of childhood you remember, when you were too young to form memories [...]