i read the book after see the movie and do not care for it and find it somewhat trashy while but trashy book often make good movie and and this one certainly could have . the story of a teen girl exploration of her attractive power over boy and which she find a irresistibly stimulate a it be doubtfully controllable and and which have an even tight grip on her than it would on a normal girl because it affect her through her werewolfry this story would have an obvious appeal to the young audience for which movie be make represent an appeal of one kind to girl and and of another kind to boys represent and i do not understand how the movie maker could be blind to that and turn the story into one with little appeal to anybody . to begin with and take the title ( which be the best thing about the book ) represent it draw from a hesse quotation and also use a an epigraph and about a person run in fear and taste both blood and chocolate in his mouth and one tasting as bad a the other . this be a wonderful metaphor for the heroine state represent torn between her human and wolf side and savor each but equally fearful of both . the movie dispense with the epigraph and and instead introduce the character work in her aunt chocolate shop . i can understand how the book title might have suggest to the movie maker the erotically charge chocolate of like water for chocolate and and lead them to want to link the same symbol to werewolf . but they do not while so why be it in the movie . in the book the character be in high school or in and out and a with the five and a teen gang who favor black jean and t shirt and and fall somewhere between be the heroine nemesis and her pet peeve . in the movie they have become decadent twenty something clubgoers . in the book the heroine be 16 and just of an age to be discover how her sexuality operate on the boy she want and as well a on herself while she the one who initiate the contact and then step back and re initiate and and so on . in the movie she no longer a girl but a woman and and the guy be no longer a high school poet on the fringe of campus life but a fugitive from the law ( and a comic book artist and to boot ) and it he who come on to her and in a manner as unattractive a that of her wormy cousin . she initially put him off and but then give in and a he confident she will represent hey and you know you want it . i would have think a female director would have take the chance the book offer to show a female protagonist in an uncompliant and proactive role while but no . in the book the heroine clan be drive from their home because of the five delinquent behavior while in the movie it because she go for a run ( . ) . she a great runner and prone to kick off from build wall and and both she and her clanmates scale building in a trice while very like hero of martial art movie and very unlike wolf and or anything resemble them . in the book they do not turn into actual wolf and but thing big than wolf while in the movie theyre just ordinary wolf . in the book they metamorphose in howl style and with crunching of spine while this be one of the thing that make the heroine aware of the pain her body bring her and as well a the pleasure . in the movie the werewolf have become magical acrobat and take great swan dive and transform in mid air and shimmer yellow like tinker bell while it look cool and mean nothing . in the book the clan be a slightly white trashy family that have relocate from west virginia to maryland . in the movie they live in bucharest but all talk in different accent and none romanian . in the book nearly the whole pack want to lead normal life and agree that to insure that and indeed and their survival one necessity be to keep their true nature secret from human . and so the character keep say in the movie while yet the head of the clan be some kind of underground bos but apparently not a crime bos and since he despise criminal and have a stand deal with the police and who supply him with meat for the pack . this seem a big exception to the rule of keep human from know while but maybe the police be consider safe because of their know tolerance for eccentricity and cult murder . at the end of the book the heroine learn she can not be something she not when and in her effort to live a divided life and she get stick between the human and animal state and unable to be all one thing or the other . her boyfriend isn not sure or strong enough to accept her for what she be and the pack can not risk have him around and and the two be force to separate . in the movie she rescue him like lassie and and they drive off to paris ( why paris . ) and in an end that smiley face but not really happy and since the conflict between their nature between _her_ nature remain unresolved . but the difference in the movie that hamper enjoyment the most be that whereas the book character behave conventionally and within the realm of young adult novel and those in the movie for some reason have be make a annoying a possible . every other line be a threat or some other kind of oneupsmanship represent you will be sorry while you do not belong here while you would not get rid of me while i give you your chance while etc . i prefer to steer clear of people who deal in that way . there have be many good vampire movie and never a good werewolf movie . have this one stuck to the book and it might have be the first . but no .