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Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

7 reviews

nicosta_music's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

As someone who is a connoisseur of werewolf novels, Mongrels immediately became one of my favorites. It starts off pretty slow and unremarkable as far as these kinds of books go, but by the end I was absolutely in love. The book has such strong and hard-hitting themes about human (or I guess non-human) nature and about how you define yourself, especially by those you surround yourself with. This book is definitely gory and brutal and doesn't pull any punches, but it performs in a way that really hammers home the wisdom it is imparting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Gun violence, Rape, Medical content, and Alcohol

Minor: Bullying and Vomit

booksthatburn's review against another edition

Focuses too much on a particular topic that's triggering to me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Violence, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

jessthanthree's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Racism, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Car accident, and Pregnancy

nodogsonthemoon's review

adventurous mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

corar's review

dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Mongrels is a coming of age story about a boy who lives with his aunt and uncle on the fringes of society. They are outcasts that are barely getting by and constantly on the move. The chapters of the book are vignettes of his life that are not always told in order. There will be a chapter when he is eleven and the next will be when he is fifteen and the next will go back to when he is nine. They also switch from first person to third person between chapters. Despite the confusion this could cause, it worked. All of the chapters and the stories they told fit together and the order makes sense for the story. While this is a story about werewolves, it is much more than that. It is a coming of age story about a boy trying to figure out his place in the world. It has a much more literary feel than other werewolf books I have read. I think that anyone that likes werewolf stories should include this in their reading plans, but that those that like more realism in their books may enjoy it too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Cannibalism, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

gilnean's review

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, and Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Pregnancy

pogue's review against another edition

adventurous reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Police brutality, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Alcohol