A laugh-out-loud, roller coaster read with a plethora of serious moments, I WAS A TEENAGE WEREDEER features multiple STRONG female characters [including the eponymous protagonist] and much good vs. evil, both contemporary and historical.


Jane Doe is an eighteen-year-old deer shifter in Michigan, in an alternate North America in which Vampires came out, then shifters. She is also partly indigenous and partly Canadian, daughter of a Shaman, who eschews magic. But Jane is more Gifted than she believes, and her talents are essential to save her community.

I loved this! I love Jane and Emma, and I at least could tolerate most of the characters. I loved Lucien, and I can't wait to see where that goes, especially with Jane and Alex. I loved the world building, and the shifter information. It felt natural and not just something that was being told to us as readers out of place, it genuinely felt natural in Emma and Jane's conversation's. I loved the little nods to real life included, especially some celebrities being shifters. The family relations with the O'Henry's were a bit confusing, but not too difficult it ruined the story. The ending was a bit odd, I felt. It felt like it was naturally ending and then....it didn't? And there was a whole nother ending to read? It was a bit off, and I feel like it could have been a bit more streamline, but it was still good overall. I really did enjoy it, and I can't wait to start reading book 2.