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Luke Thorpe is a fifteen-year-old wimp. Excellent at maths and terrible at spot, he’s not the sort of person you’d expect to see howling at a full moon. Yet he finds himself doing just that – and a host of hairier things – as he slowly discovers his true identity: against all odds, he is a teenage werewolf.
In this, his brilliantly funny diary, Luke describes his new condition and its embarrassing impact on his life, as well as embarking on an extraordinary adventure that brings him into contact with some pointy-toothed familiar faces … Will Luke triumph over a werewolf’s mortal enemies? There’s only one way to find out.
Luke Thorpe is an exam obsessed 15 year old who dreams of being a politician but whose life changes forever when he’s bitten by a big dog while out one night buying milk for his mum. Soon he’s growing fur on the back of his hands and facing the urge to eat raw meat. Forced to face up to the fact that he’s a werewolf, he has to work out how to control his changes if he’s to have any chance of passing his GCSEs.
Fortunately he meets Ryan, another werewolf who’s able to help him control his instincts and introduces him to some of the other local werewolves. However Ryan has an agenda of his own and Luke soon finds himself in the middle of a war between vampires and werewolves that includes some rather familiar faces …
Having greatly enjoyed DIARY OF A WIMPY VAMPIRE and DIARY OF A WIMPY VAMPIRE: PRINCE OF DORKNESS, I was initially disappointed that Tim Collins’ third book in this series wasn’t another story about Nigel Mullet, but ADVENTURES OF A WIMPY WEREWOLF is an entertaining read that mixes new blood with familiar faces.
Luke Thorpe shares Nigel’s pomposity and self-regard, but whereas Nigel wants to be sensitive and new age, Luke is ambitious and determined to do well academically in order to avoid the dole queue. There’s a lot of fun to be had in seeing how he copes with his embarrassing partial transformations, particularly the scene where he needs to pee around his desk. I wish that more had been made of his relationship with his mum (who’s still getting over being abandoned by her husband) because I liked the scenes where she assumes that Luke either has a girlfriend or is gay and links it to her own failed marriage.
Nigel and Chloe fans will be pleased to see their return. It was good to see that Chloe hasn’t abandoned her pacifist principles and I was delighted to read more Nigel poetry. The werewolf pack was fun, particularly the big man who turns into a werepoodle.
If I’ve got any criticism it’s that some of the werewolf jokes were familiar from the VAMPIRE books, but this didn’t make them any less fun. I also loved the illustrations by Andrew Pinder.
All in all, this was another fun read and it has an ending that’s open enough to leave room for more stories about Luke, which I would really enjoy reading.
The Verdict:
A companion novel rather than a sequel to the WIMPY VAMPIRE books, this was another entertaining, snigger-worthy book by Tim Collins that introduces new characters but also has room for familiar faces. I hope to read more of Luke and his adventures.
Luke Thorpe is a fifteen-year-old wimp. Excellent at maths and terrible at spot, he’s not the sort of person you’d expect to see howling at a full moon. Yet he finds himself doing just that – and a host of hairier things – as he slowly discovers his true identity: against all odds, he is a teenage werewolf.
In this, his brilliantly funny diary, Luke describes his new condition and its embarrassing impact on his life, as well as embarking on an extraordinary adventure that brings him into contact with some pointy-toothed familiar faces … Will Luke triumph over a werewolf’s mortal enemies? There’s only one way to find out.
Luke Thorpe is an exam obsessed 15 year old who dreams of being a politician but whose life changes forever when he’s bitten by a big dog while out one night buying milk for his mum. Soon he’s growing fur on the back of his hands and facing the urge to eat raw meat. Forced to face up to the fact that he’s a werewolf, he has to work out how to control his changes if he’s to have any chance of passing his GCSEs.
Fortunately he meets Ryan, another werewolf who’s able to help him control his instincts and introduces him to some of the other local werewolves. However Ryan has an agenda of his own and Luke soon finds himself in the middle of a war between vampires and werewolves that includes some rather familiar faces …
Having greatly enjoyed DIARY OF A WIMPY VAMPIRE and DIARY OF A WIMPY VAMPIRE: PRINCE OF DORKNESS, I was initially disappointed that Tim Collins’ third book in this series wasn’t another story about Nigel Mullet, but ADVENTURES OF A WIMPY WEREWOLF is an entertaining read that mixes new blood with familiar faces.
Luke Thorpe shares Nigel’s pomposity and self-regard, but whereas Nigel wants to be sensitive and new age, Luke is ambitious and determined to do well academically in order to avoid the dole queue. There’s a lot of fun to be had in seeing how he copes with his embarrassing partial transformations, particularly the scene where he needs to pee around his desk. I wish that more had been made of his relationship with his mum (who’s still getting over being abandoned by her husband) because I liked the scenes where she assumes that Luke either has a girlfriend or is gay and links it to her own failed marriage.
Nigel and Chloe fans will be pleased to see their return. It was good to see that Chloe hasn’t abandoned her pacifist principles and I was delighted to read more Nigel poetry. The werewolf pack was fun, particularly the big man who turns into a werepoodle.
If I’ve got any criticism it’s that some of the werewolf jokes were familiar from the VAMPIRE books, but this didn’t make them any less fun. I also loved the illustrations by Andrew Pinder.
All in all, this was another fun read and it has an ending that’s open enough to leave room for more stories about Luke, which I would really enjoy reading.
The Verdict:
A companion novel rather than a sequel to the WIMPY VAMPIRE books, this was another entertaining, snigger-worthy book by Tim Collins that introduces new characters but also has room for familiar faces. I hope to read more of Luke and his adventures.
