Neal Gaiman quote tricked me into reading an unpromising title.

If you are masochistic enough to want a poorly crocheted overlong early-teen 'Sunset Beach' with werewolves, self-harm and no sympathetic characters, read 'Lonely werewolf girl'. Otherwise Martin Millar seems best avoided.

It took a while to realise what the author had achieved as I never expected to be reading an American soap series, and kept getting distracted by the lack of prose quality and dumb-foundingly obvious anomalies.