carriepond 's review for:

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

4.5

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Mongrels is unlike any werewolf story I've read, and I loved it. It's a coming-of-age story, it's a family story, it's a story of folks who are transient, rootless, and living hand[or paw, sometimes, har har]-to-mouth. This book had it all-- graphic scenes, tender scenes, funny scenes. And the way Graham Jones alternately builds on and wholesale rejects common werewolf lore is just so good.