Description: Never say never. He's hot. He'sin a band. Every girl wants him. He has claws, wings, and a beak. He can alsofly. When Pyke, the school's first interspecies transfer student, walks throughthe doors of Vista View High, student-body chair Shiels, who normally has itall together, goes bonkers (a mild understatement). Pyke's appearanceinvigorates everyone. He can catch a spiraling football pass like no one else.He can turn a school dance party into a whirling, orgiastic riot. He can turnShiels' nose the same tone of purple as his skin with some bump-and-grind dancemoves. He can also make her question everything she has ever stood for. Cumyn'slatest (Tilt, 2011, etc.) is certainly good fun, full of fresh new devices (tosay the least). However, not only is it hard to swallow, it's also long-winded.Clocking in at over 400 pages, the plot twists and turns and expands over andover until it completely tries the most patient readers, whose willingness tosuspend their disbelief for a story this ridiculous might lapse after the first250 or so pages. That said, the book is full of hilarious one-liners,straight-on characterizations, some hot sexual tension, and a doofus,headstrong heroine who is all a-flutter and dead set on protecting herprehistoric honey. That makes up for a lot. A first in interspecies lovestories? (Romance. 14-18)

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