Skulk
Author: Rosie Best
Publication Date: October 1st 2013
Source: An advanced copy was provided by Strange Chemistry in exchange for an honest review.
To some, Meg Banks’ life might look perfect – she lives in a huge house in West London, goes to a prestigious school, and has famous parents. Only Meg knows the truth: her tyrannical mother rules the house and her shallow friends can talk about nothing but boys and drinking. Meg’s only escape is her secret life as a graffiti artist.
While out tagging one night, Meg witnesses the dying moments of a fox… a fox that shapeshifts into a man. As he dies, he gives Meg a beautiful and mysterious gemstone. It isn’t long before Meg realises that she’s also inherited his power to shift and finds an incredible new freedom in fox form.
She is plunged into the shadowy underworld of London, the territory of the five warring groups of shapeshifters – the Skulk, the Rabble, the Conspiracy, the Horde, and the Cluster. Someone is after her gemstone, however, someone who can twist nature to his will. Meg must discover the secret of the stone and unite the shapeshifters before her dream of freedom turns into a nightmare.
The night Meg snuck out of her bedroom to leave her mark
behind her schools wall as graffiti artist Thatch, she gets a little more than
she bargained for in the form of a dying fox...that transforms into a human
right in front of her eyes and hands her a stone. On a night out with friends,
on the verge of getting attacked Meg...shifts into a fox, and within doing so
gets sucked into an underworld of rivalry and the power of The Skulk- the
foxes, like her, and other shape shifters. The Rabble- The Butterflies The
Horde- The rats, the Cluster- The Spiders and the Conspiracy- The Ravens.
