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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A casual coming of age werewolf novel written with biting wit. Probably the best in its niche
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
This was a beautifully written and poignant coming of age story that just also happens to have werewolves in it.
We follow our young narrator as he chronicles traveling with his aunt and uncle who dispense messy life lessons and family history over the years. The story is told through vignette chapters with a loose overall plot that ends with bittersweet loveliness.
We follow our young narrator as he chronicles traveling with his aunt and uncle who dispense messy life lessons and family history over the years. The story is told through vignette chapters with a loose overall plot that ends with bittersweet loveliness.
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
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:
Yes
Mongrels reads like a gritty, working-class, non-fiction, coming-0f-age novel. Except that it's about a werewolf family. Forget everything you think about werewolf lore and werewolf books: Stephen Graham Jones does something new and fresh and absolutely gripping with the genre in this book. I was riveted from the first page to the last, reading about the road-tripping wanderings of a boy and what's left of his lycanthrope family.
One of the best books I've read in recent years, and the best werewolf story I've read, ever.
One of the best books I've read in recent years, and the best werewolf story I've read, ever.
adventurous
challenging
informative
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book took a while to process. I'm still mulling it over. This is a werewolf story like you've never encountered before. It's a story about blood and bones and fur, about howling in the night. It's also a book about lost history, about being separated from one's culture. It's a book about rootlessness. The characters in this book have no one but an ever shrinking family, and while that is usually enough, the gaps left in their culture by isolation and nomadism are palpable. They are indeed mongrels, they are strays, but they are also family, and in a disconnected world, that is sometimes all you can count on.
Amazing. Freaking loved it. Not sure why I waited so long to read this guy. Third book this year of his I have read and loved them all. This was was extremely good.
Felt too disjointed for me to really get into. I wish the timeline had been a little less jumpy and the stakes of the story felt more important. Interesting take on the werewolf/coming of age tale, though.