The Child Thief - By Melissa Snark

This book is suitable for young adults aged 13 and over. The Child Thief is a short story, although it does make up part of a series of short stories. Someone or something is going around town and killing parents so that they can have the children. Is there any way that they can be stopped?

For Alpha werewolf Victoria Storm, the survival of her pack is her main priority but when she hears about a missing boy is it possible that she could save him and still lead her pack to safety or are they all doomed? One thing I always find with short stories is that they tend to be good books – although their length always seems to leave you feeling somewhat disappointed, and this was no exception. The plot flows nice and smoothly and I wasn’t able to find any typing errors within the story itself – although the reverences to “Victoria” and “Victory” does make the read a little more confusing at times.

I liked the way that the author has taken a supernatural creature and given it a spiritual twist – for me, this actually makes the story a little more believable in a way that I’m able to better relate to the character. I didn’t like the height of the bad guy quite so much though. Sure, I get that if you add a spiritual twist to it, you can see exactly what the author’s point was by making the baddie so big, but since many spiritual children don’t begin their spiritual journeys until much later in life this point and it’s meaning are going to be lost on them.