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My Father the Werewolf by Henry Garfield

reanne's review

For a book with 'werewolf' in the title, I was expecting a little more werewolfishness. I couldn't really get very far in this book. Others have pointed out why. Guy gets told by an old man they just met that he's a werewolf, and they pretty much just accept that. The first full moon, the kids think their dad may have killed a few people while he was out, but he can't remember what happened, and no one's really very fussed about it. Then it's more just a boring detail of their lives with the whole werewolf thing not really meaning much at all. There was no plot, no conflict. This book has an inciting incident, but that's it. Something happens, and then the rest of the book just coasts aimlessly. This book reads like someone who writes a different genre taking a stab at writing fantasy/horror and failing badly.