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A series of novels by [[Martin Millar]] who also wrote the award winning ''[[The Good Fairies of New York]]''. A teenage werewolf named Kalix is alone in London, and the best case scenario for a lone werewolf is to stay hidden. Otherwise hunters tend to come after you. Of course, Kalix has just sold the charm that was designed to keep her hidden, because she lacks any skills that would allow her to hold down a job, and has a laudanum addiction. What's worse is that a new vote has come around for the new leader of the clan and, whether she's there or not, she has a seat on that council, and will until she dies. When it comes down to a tie, the council has a problem, and when you hold a seat for life, people start thinking the obvious.
The eponymous first book of the series was released in 2007. The Second book in the series called ''[[Curse of the Wolfgirl]]'' was released at the end of July 2010. In this The Avenaris Guild takes a collective level in badass, Kalix and Agrivex try to attend college as normal human students, Markus throws a charity event, Thrix tries to keep her fashion house solvent in the recession, and Malveria's past comes back to haunt her.
[[Word of God]] from Millar's blog is that a third book is in the early stages of being drafted, but still needs a lot of work. A long wait seems likely.
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Both of Kalix's parents (Physical from her father) and Mental and Emotional from her mother.
** Malveria is also emotionally abusive to her adopted niece, in her case it is unintentional and gets better when she is called on it.
** In ''Curse'' Kalix's mother, Veresa, does lament how she screwed up her kids and is shown to be trying to make amends, just too little and too late.
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* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Werewolf wannabe musicians Beauty and Delicious, rarely sober.
* [[Britain Is Only London]]: For much of the book one; it gets better in book 2.
* [[Brought Down to Normal]]: A lunar eclipse does this to all werewolves, see the [[WMG]] for some [[Fridge Brilliance]] on how this applies to Kalix.
** Fire-Princess Kabachetka works a spell that simulates an eclipse for the set-piece battle for book 2.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Malveria may seem to be a brainless fashion obsessed [[Ditz]], but she climbed to power through ruthless, bloody ,battles and rebellions; is an extremely capable administrator of her realm.
** Her Ditziness does get her into trouble in book two when someone from her [[Complete Monster]] days comes back to haunt her.
* [[Caustic Critic]] / [[Your Vampires Suck|Your Werewolves Bite]]: Kalix reviewing a werewolf comic book for class:
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* [[Covers Always Lie]]: They're not trying to get her vote, they're trying to ''kill her''. And thereby get her seat.
* [[Cricket Rules]]: Daniel accidentally causes 'Vex to pass out when he tries to explain the rules.
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* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Thrix and werewolf hunter Easterly from book 2.
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Moonglow (a human [[Perky Goth]]) does a deal with the queen of the fire demons to save Kalix's life at the cost of her right to romantically pursue Daniel.
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* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Dominil.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: In book 1 Kalix, Dominil, and Sarapen team up to kill a load of hunters who have arrived to kill Dominil and the twin's band. That was also Sarapen's goal as well, but he wasn't going to let a bunch of humans do it. After the hunters are killed they call a brief truce until the next time they meet.
* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Hell, even Kalix can see that Daniel is absolutely spoony over Moonglow (and tells him word for word to his face), and that Moonglow has feelings for him as well.
* [[Evil Chancellor]]: {{spoiler|Distikka}} in ''Curse''.
* [[The Fair Folk]]: The elementals for whom justice and horror are but a whim, but shoes are [[Serious Business|deadly serious]].
* [[The Fashionista]]: The [[Planet of Hats|Hat]] of the Fire Demon with the dueling fashions of Malveria and Kabachetka being [[Serious Business|an important]] subplot in book 1. Being a fashion desginer this is pretty much [[Justified Trope|justifed]] in Thrix's case. And then there is [[
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: In ''Curse'' {{spoiler|Distikka's}} is pretty good. Malveria had killed her entire family after all.
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: in book one. Kabachetka uses Sarapen to destroy Malveria's clothes, Sarapen is using Kabachetka to spring a trap on Kalix, Beauty and Delicious, Thrix is using Kalix, Daniel and Moonglow to hide her designs, Dominil is using the sisters to get a chance to kill Sarapen, Markus and his Mommy dearest are using everyone to gain the Thaneship or so Markus thinks as it's his mommy using him to use everyone else, Malveria is using Agrivex and Daniel to get Moonglow to confess her love for Daniel knowing that Moonglow [[Deal with the Devil|traded that]] earlier in the book for [Malveria's] entertainment value, and Thrix is using Gawain to to work out her issues about being a [[Christmas Cake]].
** Book 2 goes for a more straightforward [[Batman Gambit]] and a stronger villain.
* [[Genki Girl]]: 'Vex tends to come across as one.
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Dominil, has no patience, and tends to be brusque at the best of times. However ''Curse'' reveals {{spoiler|she was genuinely nice to Kalix when she was a child, singing her nursery rhymes and playing with her}}, and does her best to look after Beauty and Delicious even if it is in a snarky way.
** She did want to kill Sarapen with a forbidden weapon, but we're guessing that probably applies to a lot of people where Sarapen is concerned. He's that kind of guy.
* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]: No one is really heroic in this tale, Kalix killed her father, Sarapen is batshit insane, the rest of the werewolves downright callous and manipulative, Moonglow cheats on her boyfriend, Daniel is trying to be a [[Dogged Nice Guy]] to Moonglow, Malveria a [[Retired Monster]], and the Avenaris Guild are trigger happy sociopaths.
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* [[He Is Not My Boyfriend]]: Moonglow insists she has no feelings for Daniel and they are [[Just Friends]], to the point she willing trades her love for him to go unrequited (see [[Deal with the Devil]]). As soon as she's made the deal Malveria starts playing [[Shipper on Deck]] for entertainment value.
* [[Hello Kitty]]: Agrivex has a number of ''Hello Kitty'' clothes, including the pyjamas she wears to Camden Market for shopping with her aunt.
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* [[The Masquerade]]: as per standard in this genre, [[Lampshaded]] by the werewolf hunters acknowledging "but I thought they were a werewolf" not working as a defence in court if they nail a human instead of werewolf-in-human-form.
* [[The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life]]: It is a sub-plot in ''Curse'' that none of the MacRinnalch women have a dating life. This hits home hardest with Thrix, who ended up in a [[Dating Catwoman]] situation with a werewolf hunter.
* [[Middle Child Syndrome]]: Thrix gets hit pretty hard by this the clan not really contacting her unless they want something, her father preferred Sarapen, her mother Markus, but at least she isn't treated like her younger sister [[The Unfavourite|Kalix]].
* [[Morality Pet]]: in book 2 Kalix is adopted by a kitten.
** And Agrivex to Kalix, who goes out of her way to be... well, herself to keep Kalix from dropping out of college.
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: When a pair of bullies target Agrivex they do get away with it due to Vex's inherent niceness, then [[Oh Crap|Kalix finds out]].
* [[Mundane Fantastic]]: Not too "mundane," but this is the kind of series where two college students trying to get cable shares as much page space as the politicking for a new leader of the high clans of the werewolves.
* [[Murder Is the Best Solution]]: Sarapen's approach to diplomacy and negotiation.
* [[Never Found the Body]]: {{spoiler|Sarapen}}. Killed on page with a magic knife that leaves people [[Deader Than Dead]], but no body is able to be recovered for a funeral.
** In ''Curse'' it transpires that Fire-Princess Kabachetka is keeping his body in an [[Only Mostly Dead]] state in the basement of her volcano until she gets the power to bring him back.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Herod]]: Back in her [[Complete Monster]] days Malveria ensured her conquest of her realm by killing all the children of her family. She missed one.
* [[Not So Above It All]]: Dominil in ''Curse'', her one night stand with the band's guitarist [[Ascended Extra|Pete]] in book 1 really comes back to haunt her.
* [[Only Mostly Dead]]: Malveria brings Kalix back from the outskirts of the Forest of the Werewolf Dead.
* [[Our Demons Are Different]]: Fashion obsessed, although still willing to steal someone's ability to love for a favour.
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: There are no dragons left in the Fire Elemental's realm because Malveria killed tham all and turned them into dragon-scale dresses. A fact that {{spoiler|Distikka's}} half-dragon co-conspirator really ought to have borne in mind when he goes all [[One-Winged Angel]] in ''Curse''.
* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: In this universe werewolves may have issues but they are not the Ragemonkeys that are seen in other media.
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* [[Parental Incest]]: It's hinted that Markus's relationship with his mother flirts with this trope, whether the line is crossed or not Markus definitely has [[Mommy Issues]].
* [[Performance Anxiety]]: One of the biggest problems Dominil has acting as manager for werewolf punk-rockers Beauty and Delicious is preventing them getting completely drunk due to their stage fright. Yep, werewolves with stage fright.
* [[Puppy Dog Eyes]]: A curiously literal version is performed by Kalix in Lonely Werewolf Girl when she transforms fully into her wolf form to look cute for Moonglow at one point.
* [[Raised by Wolves|Raised By Werewolves]]: [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Kalix]]. Also Agrivex (Malveria's adopted niece) who was raised by a fire-demon.
* [[Random Events Plot]]: ''Epically''. It seems sometimes that every last plot twist is an [[Ass Pull]], [[Diabolus Ex Machina]], or [[Contrived Coincidence]]. Somehow, [[Tropes Are Not Bad|it still works]], despite repeated [[Fridge Logic]] moments.
* [[Retired Monster]]: Malveria, she only has time to be a fashion obsessed ditz because all her serious enemies are long dead. One of her titles is Persecutor of Mankind, but that is a bit old hat these days.
* [[Revenge Before Reason]]: Gawain in book 2. Kalix in the same book, {{spoiler|after Gawain is murdered.}}
* [[The Rival]]: Fire-Princess Kabachetka is [[The Rival]] (and more than a bit of the [[Alpha Bitch]]) to Malveria.
* [[The Runaways]]: Kalix loves there music, and it was Daniel having a Runaways Album that helped her to think about giving up her homeless lifestyle. She also likes to fantasise that [[Joan Jett]] is her [[Changeling Fantasy|real mother]].
* [[Rummage Sale Reject]]: Agrivex, mostly as rebellion against her Aunt, Malveria.
* [[Sacred Hospitality]]: Whenever Werewolves meet it is considered absolutely essential that they offer each other some whisky. Refusing to do so is considered as bad as murder.
** This is also the moral of the [[Show Within a Show|Werewolf fairy tale]] of Robber-Wolf and Poor-Wolf. While Poor Wolf got into trouble by helping Robber-Wolf, because she gave him shelter he comes back in the middle of winter with a meat feast to repay her Hospitality.
* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: Kalix through murdering her father. We never hear his side of the story but by other characters descriptions, he probably deserved it.
** His ghost is briefly met in book 2, yeah he [[Asshole Victim|deserved it]].
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Gawain, who is defined primarily by his longing for Kalix, his somewhat creepy feelings for Kalix (he had sex with her when he was 18 or so and she was 14.) and the fact that he [[Cannot Spit It Out]]. {{spoiler|Possibly why he dies early in book 2 to make room for the more interesting relationship between Kalix and Decembrius.}}
* [[Snark Knight]]. In book one this is Thrix's role, but by ''Curse'' she has been replaced in this by Dominil.
** Daniel likes to think he is one, but really is fooling no one but himself.
* [[Songs of Solace]]: Kalix and Daniel both indulge in this at various times.
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* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Gawain's "feelings" for Kalix tend to come across as more than a little creepy. Especially by the start of ''Curse''<ref>Not that Kalix's feelings for Gawain are that much better</ref>
** And of course [[Yandere|Albemarle]] for Dominil.
* [[The State Room Sketch]]: In ''Curse of the Wolfgirl'', fashion designer Thrix is preparing for a date and is visited by almost every non-villain character.
* [[Sympathetic Murder Backstory]]: Part of Kalix's backstory is that she killed her father. It's part of the reason she is so lonely.
* [[Team Mom]]: Moonglow is so Kalix, Daniel, and Agrivex's mother-figure.
* [[Took a Level
* [[True Companions]]: Kalix, Daniel, Moonglow, Agrivex, Malverie, and Thrix eventually make a pretty good group despite a lot of [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]] along the way, as does Dominil with Beauty and Delicious.
* [[Tsundere]]: Kalix, she shifts from type A to type b over the course of the book.
* [[The Messiah]]: Agrivex. Loves everyone and everything, especially deranged, self destructive werewolves? Check. Constant inspiration to others? (Well, just Kalix so far.) Check. Acting on most pure motivations and values in world of [[Black and Gray Morality]] ? Check.
* [[Undead Tax Exemption]]: The Fire Demons and centuries long lived werewolves can live and integrate just fine with human society, no questions asked.
* [[The Unfavourite]]: Kalix. Although this seems to be changing a little by book two, but even then it is noted in narration her mother has pretty much given up on any sort of relationship.
* [[Unfazed Everyman]]: Daniel, see [[Spot of Tea]] for his default response to every situation.
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Do not make Kalix angry. You won't like her when she's angry.
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* [[We Have Become Complacent]]
* [[What Did I Do Last Night?]]: This question is asked by Thrix after a night of [[Drowning Our Romantic Sorrows]]. The answer is, her sister's boyfriend.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Dominil, the white haired arctic werewolf.
* [[Yandere]]: Male version, Albermarle from book 2, an [[Adorkable]] friendly comic-book [[Otaku]] who is also a creepy [[Stalker with a Crush]] on Dominil who just wants her to admit he was attractive at University (and that she stole his place on the quiz team), and then to humiliate and kill her.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Beauty and Delicious, though via hairdye
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Sarapen's spy and [[Vampire Wannabe|werewolf wannabe]] Madrigal is [[Genre Blind|surprised]] to find Sarapen pulling this one out the villain's handbook.
* [[You Are Not Alone]]: A {{spoiler|Finnish}} werewolf is discovered near the end of Book2 and is overjoyed to discover she is not the only one.
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