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I really liked this book. My thoughts in the spoiler tab until book club.
Also it seems like I've been reading a lot of books where the main character doesn't have a name..
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Also it seems like I've been reading a lot of books where the main character doesn't have a name..
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Mongrels feels like an author who just wants to world build. The writing is fine - I didn't really feel for the characters, and I think I was meant to. There was no plot, except in the last (major) chapter. And there was a lot of world-building. There were some cool ideas, but overall it was a bit lackluster.
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I really enjoyed Stephen Graham Jones' concept of what it is to be a werewolf. It's complicated, it's not pretty, there are so many logistics that I hadn't considered about shapeshifting. Most of the time, it's not a great way to be and I think that's what I loved about this.
Unfortunately, it was largely the only thing i loved about this.
The jumping around in time is confusing and this is heightened by the sometimes relatively short time jumps and the brevity of the chapters. You don't really g ...more
Unfortunately, it was largely the only thing i loved about this.
The jumping around in time is confusing and this is heightened by the sometimes relatively short time jumps and the brevity of the chapters. You don't really g ...more
May 09, 2021
Bartosz Majcher
marked it as to-read
