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Mongrels

Stephen Graham Jones

3.93 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes

I loved this a lot and honestly it was a really nice break from Graham's Indian Lake trilogy where you have to fight tooth and nail to understand what's happening in any given scene, the writing in this is way more straight up but still very poetic. I love the southern gothic style as well, it's so fun to read and it's so ruff n tumble. It's a werewolf book but it's more of a family drama and examination of class/race disparity in the united states. very very sad but very good.
dark funny tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

My rating is more because I didn't realize the same of this book.
I kept getting so confused.
Again, I need to read the summary before starting books

On that same note, I didn't realize this was a metaphorical story.
I just felt really dumb and knew I was missing something.
emotional funny mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Boys becoming men, men becoming wolves
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herelieshenry's review

3.75
challenging reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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This was great.

I think I like this better than some of his more popular books. I like the pacing better. The story flowed together better than Only Good Indians or the 1st 2 Indian Lake books. Those are all super heavy on lore up front and fast moving plot once the lore is in place.

This one had a great balance, dropping more lore into a moving plot.

how did this author make me not like a book about werewolves. arguably my favorite thing after zombies
dark mysterious medium-paced

Good YA coming of age werewolf story