i just finished this book, and it was a fun read.  it's about a royal Scottish werewolf clan, but their dysfunctional cuz their werewolves.  the main character, kalix, is super cool.  like some of the werewolves are old fashoined werewolves, the others are urban, hip werewolves.  it reminded me some of philip k dick's sci fi stories, in the sense the setting for the story is believable.  it takes place mostly in london, and times in scotland.  there's a great balance of dry english humor, but the characters still remain fierce, and the werewolf battles are viscous.  It takes a real talent to mix those two elements without a book coming of absurd.  and its done very well.  its a big book, but i didn't want to put it down.  i've seriously debated getting a tattoo of kalix, cause she's such a cool character.  and there's plenty of fantastic characters in this book.

I've actually just dived in, and while the writing seems deceptively simple, it's totally engrossing, quirky, fierce and funny. I think I'm going to rip through this book!

I thought the cover was cool. The name of the book was cool. So I bought it to read and tried. and tried. and tried.
and hated the twenty something pages i managed to read and gave up.
Le-sigh.

Ooh, sequel!

You know I had that immediate reaction to the book - I didn't like it much at first, didn't interest me, but I kept going and got to a point where I had trouble putting it down. It was so strangely written to me - emotionally very detached, dry, and strange. But I finished it and really enjoyed the ride.

Moonlit Hunter wrote:

I got this book for Christmas a couple years ago. It is a fun book, but I felt like the author was high or something when it was written.

Millar has admitted to being agorophobic, so it's probably his experience with mental illness showing.  That, and he's a strange fellow--he was hired to write the novelization of the movie Tank Girl, after all.