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breakaway71 's review for:
Mongrels
by Stephen Graham Jones
This is very much a coming-of-age story about family and life on the run/on the road and...ostensibly...about being a werewolf. But while the werewolf parts factor into everything that happens, somehow it still felt almost peripheral to the story, in a way I can't quite describe. This book is a horror novel that doesn't feel like a horror novel, a werewolf story that doesn't feel like it's about werewolves, and a coming of age story where there doesn't seem to be much actual growth. I didn't love it, but I think it will still stick with me. And having met the author, I definitely want to give more of his books a try, I think this one just felt a bit too scattered for me because of the way it was laid out. The back and forth narrative between past and present didn't work well for me, and the ending wasn't particularly satisfactory. This seemed like several short stories that were loosely put together into a book just to call it a novel.