Blood & Chocolate & The Hero Worth Having

First of all, Blood & Chocolate, by Annette Curtis Klaus is a wonderful, sensual and scary book which deals with the werewolf-as-adolescent metaphor wonderfully. (It deserves much better than the movie it got, and there is a special level in hell reserved for the people who managed to screw it up, two levels below child molesters and people who talk in the theater.)

( meta and spoilers for Buffy, Shrek, Blood & Chocolate, and Kitty & The Midnight Hour behind the cut )