| Title | : | Wounded (The Wereling, #1) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1595140417 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781595140418 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 |
| Publication | : | First published December 31, 2003 |
Then she meets Tom Anderson. Tom is a wereling-a werewolf who retains his humanity even in his wolf form. He was "turned" by Kate's mother, who chose wisely.
Tom and Kate can't help falling for each other. But if they give in to their feelings, Kate will become the thing she hates most. Unless they can find a cure. . . .
Wounded (The Wereling, #1) Reviews
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I just loved this series. I thought this first book was a little slow in the very beginning but once you get past the turning point its actually quite good.
The book is much like the Twilight series or Harry Potter series, except that this one is a werewolf community. Its a very smooth and easy read like the series I mentioned above. They are quite a bit smaller then those books but very good.
The main characters are around 16-17 and even though there is attraction there, its ill-fated. The mother of the girl is horrific as is her brother. There are a few parts that are kind of disturbing, maybe a bit to graphic for young readers, but they are few and far between and add to the gruesome life being depicted here.
I thought it was great to read a series for young teens/adults revolving around werewolves instead of the ever popular vampires! I love the vampire stories but this was a great change and I thoroughly enjoyed it!! -
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I licantropi non sono come avevamo immaginato. Per niente attraenti e amichevoli, ma molto più spietati e assetati di sangue. Sangue umano. Un horror YA con piccole venature romantiche e tanta avventura, per una storia leggera, non troppo pretenziosa, e una bella scrittura che tiene ancorati alle pagine.
Stay Tuned! -
Mini-Review
Wounded, Prey, and Resurrection are the books that made me start reading for fun. I remember going through the aisle's of my local book fair and seeing Wounded on the shelf. After reading the synopsis, I decided to buy it. It was also one of the first bargain priced books I ever bought (with my parent's money since I was still a kid). When I started reading, I fell in love with the story. It was interesting and kept my attention throughout (This was a big thing for me since I seem to have the attention span of a squirrel). Once I finished, I begged my mother to take me back so I could get the other two books. I really believe that this trilogy could get boys and girls into reading. It sure helped blossom my love for books.
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Cook's Reviews -
I was really hoping to like this series... I like werewolf stories, but I didn't like how the characters were never what they seemed. Nice old lady on the bus who offers a place to stay? Werewolf! Witch doctor who will help stop the werewolf transformation? Evil doctor! Long lost lover? Bitter ex-boyfriend who thinks you killed his father! Really, every character except the two main characters, Kate and Tom, were not what they first appeared to be. I just kept waiting for Kate and Tom to be different than what they seemed too. The characters were shallow enough that anything is possible. I know there are two other books in this series but I doubt I will read them... too bad, since the cover art is pretty cool!
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I was looking for filler before the next Stephenie Meyer and Melissa de la Cruz books. This didn't do it for me. It tried too hard to be a horror/monster movie. It had moments of suspense, but the characters were too stereotypical (the bumbling British geek-turned-hero, the runaway who gets into trouble, the overbearing mother, the washed-out villain attempting a comeback, etc.). There was too much gore for my taste, also.
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Title: "The Wereling: Wounded" by Stephen Cole
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Summary:
Tom Anderson, a sixteen year old teenager, tired of his boring family vacation goes off into the woods. While by the river, he is attacked by a bear and ends up washed up somewhere. He wakes up in bed, badly injured but being cared for by the Folans. But not all is what it seems.
⚠️POTENTIAL SPOILERS⚠️
Review:
Read this in a day. It was a re-read and I remembered very little so it felt like reading it all over again.
It was a fast read and not a bad one either. Very simple premise; a bit like "Misery" meets werewolves.
Tom was an okay character to follow as well as Kate Folan. Both are trying to escape the Folan family after they changed Tom into a wereling. The book's plot revolves around them escaping and Tom dealing with the wolf blood in his body.
I noticed a trend however; Tom and Kate would trust someone, they turned out to be "bad" in some way, they barely escape and run off. This would repeat but with different characters, which, for me, took away any surprise or tension.
I did enjoy the action scenes, when Tom shifts for the first time is described well, and explaining the moon is like a drug to wolves was interesting.
It was okay, but surprised I was allowed to read it when I was at school. -
This is a review of the trilogy as a whole, for these are short books and what I say can apply to all of them.
I remember reading these books when I was in school, more than ten years ago, and it’s a testament that I remember them, and certain scenes, characters and quotes, vividly. I enjoyed them then and I enjoy them now as an adult.
These are fast-paced, smooth reads and the writing is economical. The only time it does seem to stumble in its pacing in when it has to give an ‘info-dump’, but they’re only a paragraph or so long and they serve to remind you what has happened in the previous books or to give you information on important and relevant parts of the werewolf mythology (which is interestingly crafted) so you don’t have to waste time trying to stitch the pieces together throughout the book. Granted the transitions into the ‘info-dumps’ are a little clumsy at times, but they’re quick and few.
The characters are very likeable and their humour takes the edge off some of the dark, grizzly horror. And these books are HORROR. Publish two years before Twilight castrated werewolves, these books keep the rabid animal violence and in no way romanticises them. At the same time, it doesn’t go too overboard with the gore, only at important times where you need that stab of dread.
All in all, I’d recommend these. They’re short books and you could probably read the whole trilogy in a week, at most. -
Outstanding!
I love the feeling that comes with finishing a good book, the satisfaction of having done something worthwhile. The same can be said of finding a new author, or a new series and The Wereling by Stephen Cole has been added to my TBR list. I enjoyed reading about the trials and troubles of Tom, a teenager separated from his family and "turned" by Kate's parents in their attempt to mate her with another lycanthrope. It tracks their race across country dodging villains bent on their capture, trying to reach someone in the hope there is a cure for Tom that will make him human again. While I am not normally a fan of horror, I found Wounded to be so much more complex than that. There was a depth to the characters that surprised and encouraged me, Tom in particular was endearing in how hard he strived to maintain his humanity in the face of the brutality being proffered against him. -
I did touch on this book in the past but I really feel that I've grown as a reader and writer and wanted to give it another go. I got to read the awesome book The Wereling by Stephen Cole. I had been putting off reading this book due to my busy schedule but I finally found down time. I'd give this book 4.5 out of 5. The story kept my attention and was gripping. I especially loved the character Tom and the fight scenes. The only problem I had with the book was that Takapa didn't really bring fear in me as a villain. He had moments where I feared for Kate but overall he just fell flat. Now Marcie on the other hand I felt more fear towards her and I can't wait to see how she is further polished in this world. Overall, the book was a great interesting read with hints at romance and good action.
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I really liked this book. It’s short and full of suspense. The characters could be more developed in my opinion, and the length of the book should be longer because he needs to expand on some things.
It’s very fast paced which i don’t mind after reading all of Dan Brown’s books. I only wish there was more content in the book. There are some crazy ass people in this book and it kinda scared me, Im not gonna lie.
I would give this book 3 1/2 stars, but me being an optimist and all happy i decided to stay with 4 stars rather than 3. Goodreads really needs to put half stars in rating a book. It makes life so much easier if we just had the half stars.
Cheers lovelies. -
I’d give this book 4.5 out of 5. The story kept my attention and was gripping. I especially love the character Tom and the fight scenes. The only problem I had with the book was that Takapa didn’t really bring fear in me as a villain. He had moments where I feared for Kate but overall he fell flat. Now Marcie on the other hand I felt more fear towards her and I can’t wait to see how she is further polished in this world. Overall, the book was a great interesting read with hints at romance and good action.
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Ugh. If I have to read "'wolf " stylized like that again I'm going to freak. That was so, so annoying. Writing was subpar, but the story was somewhat interesting. I finished in a day. Won't be reading the next two in the series.
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I read this book three times throughout high school and early college. I re-read this book this year (2021) and it is garbage lol it is YA trash but not even that good of YA trash. The nostalgia of rereading it got me though.
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Nothing wrong with this book, I just found the story line to be average. I'm not really feeling compelled to finish the last 2 books.
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Did my 25% and didn’t like it. Too gruesome for me, especially the suggestion of eating his family.
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This was a re-read from when I was in high school. It was one of the first books i'd read with a supernatural setting and I loved it then and still love it now.
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Due stelline e mezzo.
Assimilo il fatto che sia l'inizio di una serie interrotta ormai da anni e poi parlerò di questo thriller al sapore di lupo adolescenziale. -
Molto scorrevole e devo dire che lho trovato una lettura scorrevole, ma manca un finale purtroppo i libri successivi non sono mai stati pubblicati in Italia per quanto sappia
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Everything I wanted out of it. Silly story. Silly characters. Such a fun read, just wish it wasn’t so rushed. Definitely gonna read the series.
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Been a long time but I remember loving this for how dark it was to teenage me.
The cover I vaguely remember isn't here though. -
I liked the book Wereling because it has to do with a regular seventeen year old boy, and he is normal like everyone else but then something happens to where he goes on a trip with his family and while he was by himself, playing in the river. He got swept away by the current and well, more like everything start going downhill from that. What I didn’t like was the fact that everyone that they met were werewolves, and they couldn’t find a few nice people that were not connected to that wolves. I also didn’t like the fact that Papa Takapa was using Kate’s best friend email just to fool Kate and Tom and almost cut Tom open to see what actually makes him the wereling. But I did like how when he was being dragged away by these two thugs when Kate went to go visit her old friend Tyler (I am pretty sure that was his name) and when they were trying to make Kate admit if she killed her dad or not, when Tom was being dragged away and getting beat up, he stopped feeling pain, and then started laughing while hair started coming out of his skin while he was transforming. That was so cool cause I think it’s awesome how he starts laughing as he is ready to beat them up.]
If the book was made into a movie it would be action of course, I am not sure about romance though because Tom and Kate look like they have something going on but at the same time it doesn’t. And I am not sure if it would be horror because usually movie with vampires and werewolves, and anything that could kill and is not real at the same time is known as horror. The setting would probably be in a area that has a lot of woods nearby, for the scenes when they are getting away from Kate’s home. Than a little small neighborhood for the part when they meet Patience. And then a abandoned looking area with one house for when they went to see Tyler. And maybe like a alley way area when Blood saved Kate, along with a warehouse for when Kate had to watch Tom being tortured and when Kate was handcuffed to the chair being held hostage by Papa Takapa. The casting would be really hard to pick from (you don’t so really many seventeen year old stars, and none of the Disney channel stars work). I would make all of the stuff the same but I most likely would take out a lot of the train action. Cause Tom waits in the train for Kate to come back from her shower. She takes too long, he gets worried, this guy disguised as a train attendant calls him saying that Kate is waiting for him, when she is not, ect. It’s just way to much. I would probably take out some parts like how all of the people in the dining room were wolves too and they all started trying to attack him. And maybe the whole part where Blood was giving the certain pair of shoes and also probably the part when the old man scared Tom in the movie theatre. I would actually rate this movie PG-13 cause nothing bad happens in it. And it seems suitable for many ages except some blood might get to people so I guess it would be PG-16…There is lots of blood going on in this book so most likely the movie too. But I think this would be a good movie to all ages in fact. Only if they can handle bloody movies though. -
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Beauty and the Bookshelf.
I love this book (and, of course, series). I believe I first discovered Wounded my freshman year of high school, when I asked the school librarian for some recommendations of books I might like since I was on a Twilight high. She steered me toward Stephen Cole's Wereling series, and THANK GOSH she did--otherwise, I don't know that I would've ever known about these books, and that would be a gosh darn shame.
Wounded beings the stories of Tom Anderson and Kate Folan, two teens (him sixteen, her seventeen) who find themselves thrown together as they try to survive. When Tom winds up going downriver on a family camping trip, he finds himself in the Folan household with parents Marcie and Hal and their children Kate and Wesley. At first, it seems like the family--well, everyone but Kate--is really trying to help Tom get better so he can return to his presumably worried parents and little brother. But then Tom finds out the Folans are werewolves--and they made him one, too. Because doesn't-want-to-be-a-werewolf Kate has to mate with a 'wolf in order to become one, and her evil mother decided Tom could do it. Then things happen, and Kate and Tom are on the run--from Kate's family, and to find a cure for Tom.
Tom and Kate go through several escapades on their journey, and even though they're never really safe, I love it. I've read this book at least three times, and it's still good. The writing isn't fancy or anything, but it's still pretty good and totally readable. It's a shorter read and a quick page-turner, and thank goodness I have three books to read. I think I'd still love this book even if it didn't have werewolves. (But I LOVE werewolves, so.) There's something about this story and the way it's written that just works for me, and I love it. I care about Tom and Kate's story and what happens to them--and duh, I ship them. And what's great is that there isn't even much romance in here, but it still works. (Because I love me some romance.) Sure, Tom and Kate have the occasional thought about each other, but their focus remains on what's important: staying alive. (And that whole mating-turns-me-'wolf thing with Kate makes it easier for the two to stay apart, since neither of them want Kate to be a 'wolf.)
In the end, this is just a fun, great book that is soo underrated. Tom and Kate are two great characters and POVs who are living a story that I love to read about. And there are memorable secondary characters: Kate's evil bitch of a mother Marcie; the nasty albino 'wolf Papa Takapa; and Adam Blood--how did I forget about you?!--with his British accents (yes, plural) and funny lines. So, to recap: Wounded has likable characters, good writing, and a compelling story. Oh, and there are WEREWOLVES. Is this book perfect? No. But I enjoy reading it too much to even really see what's wrong with it; I just don't care. I was waaay overdue for a reread on this book, and now I can finally review it for the blog! You? Go read this book! Me? I'm on to book two, Prey! -
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L’avventura è incentrata su una concezione particolare dei lupi mannari. Ne esistono di tre tipi: di sangue puro, sangue argento e mannaride. Gli ultimi due sono chi è stato morso da un licantropo. In particolare il mannaride è refrattario alla trasformazione e riescono a conservare la mente umana nel corpo della bestia. Tom è catapultato in questo mondo assurdo poiché è stato morso dalla madre di Kate, una donna folle che desidera conservare la stirpe pura della famiglia.
Prima della trasformazione era un ragazzo normale, un po’ ribelle verso la sua famiglia. Con un carattere timido, soprattutto verso le ragazze, e non violento. Dopo la trasformazione dovrà fare i conti con una sete di sangue in apparenza insaziabile e incontrollabile. I suoi sforzi saranno di conservare il suo spirito e personalità i più intatti possibili, senza perdere se stesso a causa delle nuove capacità che ha acquisito. Il suo desiderio di tornare normale sembra corrispondere alla perfezione con il desiderio di libertà di Kate, che vuole sfuggire dalle grinfie della sua famiglia.
La ragazza è considerata dai suoi genitori, in particolare sua madre, solo come uno strumento che può accrescere il prestigio della loro stirpe. Ha un carattere forte e deciso, ma attraversa dei momenti di debolezza in cui vorrebbe essere salvata e lasciare che sia qualcun altro a prendersi cura di lei. È introversa, poiché non ha mai avuto molti contatti al di fuori della sua famiglia. Grazie alla sua fuga con Tom, riuscirà pian piano ad aprirsi con il ragazzo, rivelando una pungente ironia e una dolcezza inaspettata.
Non è lasciato molto spazio alle ambientazioni, incentrando tutta la narrazione sui protagonisti e sulle loro azioni/riflessioni. Una pecca che grava sull’impianto narrativo è però la presenza costante di gruppi di licantropi in ogni città visitata dai giovani. Per una società che tende a isolarsi, per non destare sospetti tra gli umani, sembra eccessivo che ci siano così tanti membri pronti a dare la caccia ai due giovani senza timore di essere scoperti. -
Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.com
Sixteen-year-old Tom Anderson is a typical teen. Ticked off to be spending his summer vacation with his parents and younger brother, Tom storms out of their rented cabin in the Seattle forest, needing some time to himself. Next thing he knows, he's wading in a fast-moving river, with a bear between him and freedom. After being tossed unmercilessly down-river, Tom passes out--and awakes in a strange bed in a strange house.
Tom's now at the mercy of the Folan family--mom Marcie, a former nurse, dad Henry, an author, son Wesley, and strange daughter Kate. The family (minus Kate) informs Tom that he's now on an island, cut off from the mainland, with severe injuries sustained from his trip down the river. In terrible pain and totally weak, Tom spends what he believes is a week in the Folan home, recuperating from his wounds yet somehow feeling stranger as every day goes by.
Then a shocker from the strange but lovely Kate--Tom's been in the Folan home for a month, not a week, and Marcie, Henry, and Wesley aren't normal family members. They're werewolves, and they're doing everything within their power to change Tom into one to act as Kate's mate.
Suddenly, Tom is in fear for his life, and not from the raging river than wounded him. He realizes that Kate Folan may be his only chance for salvation from the beast that now resides within him, and the two set off in the dead of night after a deadly confrontation with Wesley to find a mystery man named Jicaque in New Orleans, who just might be able to cure Tom of the beast he's now living with.
WOUNDED is a great, fast-paced read! Touted as young adult book, probably because the hero is sixteen, this story will appeal to any lovers of the paranormal, especially those who enjoy werewolf stories. I've already ordered the final two books in the series, PREY and RESURRECTION, and am looking forward to getting started on them.
Definitely a recommended read! -
This one was a Goodreads recommendation. Not sure what I did to deserve it, but it's not a top-shelf book. Unless your top shelf is where you put the books you haven't quite gotten around to trashing yet, because it's certainly not a keeper. It doesn't seem to be a very popular book, either, since I had to go through inter library loan to get it and its sequel and the sequel got shipped in all the way from San Jose. I kind of feel like I should apologize to the library folks for putting them to that much effort.
I know it sounds like I hated the book, but it's not that bad. It's a quick read, if not particularly compelling. The biggest problem I have with it is that the characters are so poorly developed. The plot is okay and the pacing was fine, if a bit rushed, but I just didn't care about the characters. The boy is introduced when he grumps away from his family's camping trip, pissy about not getting to go on a trip with friends instead. That's not the kind of kid I am going to pull for straight out of the gate. The girl is slightly more sympathetic since she's a victim of a particularly horrific (as in out of a horror movie) mother. It helps that she doesn't stay a passive victim long, which is more than I can say for the boy.
I think it's telling that the characters' names are so boring, because it shows how little thought the author put into character development. Seriously, Tom and Kate? Why not just Jane and John?
If the author had cut back on one or two scenes of senseless violence and given his characters a chance to bond and for his audience to bond with them, this would have been a much better read and I might have bought my own copies instead of sending librarians scurrying through the stacks all over the country to find them for me.
