How to Help a Hungry Werewolf

A Novel

By: Charlotte Stein

Narrated by: Yael Rizowy

What We Do in the Shadows with the small town feels of Gilmore Girls in this swoon-worthy romance that will leave listeners delightfully cozy and hungry for more.

When Cassandra Camberwell returns to her hometown of Hollow Brook to clear out her late grandmother’s ramshackle old house, the last thing she expects is Seth Brubaker on her doorstep. Her former best friend was responsible for the worst moment of her high school life, and she can’t imagine he wants to do anything but torment her all over again.

Until she unearths the real reason this annoyingly gorgeous beast of a man keeps hanging around: he’s an actual werewolf, who’s certain she’s the witch that will ease his suffering. But Cassie just isn’t sure if she can trust him again. So Seth offers a pact: he’ll teach her all about her undiscovered magic, and she will brew the potions he needs. No feelings, no funny business, just a witch and a werewolf striking a deal.

Totally doable. Until they get hit with a do-or-die mating bond. And now the heat is rising, in between fights with formers bullies and encounters with talking raccoons. They just have to not give in. Unless giving in just might be the very thing they never knew they always wanted.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

Critic reviews

"Stein’s delightful, steamy romance is full of surprises that will keep readers guessing. Give this one to romance fans who like their books hot and sweet." —Library Journal

Pod’s fan club

I preferred Charlotte’s previous book when grumpy meet sunshine, but this book was cute and fun. Friends to enemies to lovers. I enjoyed the random side characters a lot.

Middling Story, Poor Narration

I’d listened to ‘When Grumpy Met Sunshine,’ also by this author, and liked it a lot, so I gave this title a chance. At best, it was all right. There’s a lot of profanity. The characters seem stuck in high school, when a pivotal event occurred, rather than fully grown adults. The two mains seem to be unacquainted with sarcasm or irony and often take everything the other says quite literally. The narrator is dreadful. She mispronounced several rather common words, and her voicing of the male characters was awful, particularly Seth, who sounds like he’s doing a bad imitation of Keanu Reeves in ‘Bill & Ted.’ Some elements of the story were good, like how Cassie’s powers work, and how she can affect her environment. But on the whole, not a great effort. About a third of the way through I increased the speed to x1.5 just to get through it. I appreciate that Ms. Stein uses plus-size leads, but it would be nice if she wrote one who has more self-confidence and less self-doubt.

Giggles, spice, and feels..oh my

I wanted to start it all over again…
The build-up was fun
The spice…woowee
Thanks for this one

Funny with a Good Narration

This paranormal romance is filled with so much spice, swoon-worthy moments & laughter it is an absolute delight to read! I was entertained the entire time and there are many hilarious laugh out loud moments. There are very few paranormal romance writers that can me laugh as much as I did with this book. I have to recommend reading (even listening) to this book!

Yael Rizowy does a nice job narrating this book. I loved how she voiced both Cassie & Seth. And she had so much enthusiasm at just the right moments. And I laughed so hard when she narrated the funny moments of comments said out loud or in Cassie's head!

This book is simply too delightful, hilarious & magical to pass up!

Cute Little Story

The story overall was adorable however wasn't very organic in parts of it. There were definitely parts that went from awwwwwwww they are being innocent to being very not innocent a not organic way, which made the story drag while at the same time pulled the audience back out of the story. There were a few inconsistencies with contributed to making the story world unbelievable. I understand that some the author was trying to add the smut scenes however by adding those details, she took away the organic flow of the story, or she should added more those scenes throughout the story instead of just throwing it all at the tail end of the story. She should either picked cute & cozy RomCom or Adult RomCom. Instead of making the smut scenes so detailed oriented as an after thought without a some heat. My suggestion is for her to either read or learn a little bit more how to make those scenarios & scenes flow a bit better or do what other writers have done kept those scenarios more simplistic. In all honesty I don't think it was necessary for the story at all & had she kept it out, I would have liked it more. There were other parts where the heroine whined a little too much with being very cowardly at times which was a little annoying however the author did save her at the end which did make the story again drag out. I will give this author another chance to see she grows as a story teller & writers, which I hope she does because it would be ashame to see her quit before getting good. There is a lot potential here with some good editing.