Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
My FIRST (though Kevin reminds me I did read King's ... Cycle of the Werewolf - but that was decades ago!!) - OK, so I start again - my FAVORITE werewolf novel!!!!!!!!!!! Wheeee!!!!!!!!!!! I so enjoyed my halloween romp with Jones' Gospel of Z that I perused his other novels at the Greenville Library (there were two). This was fun. Like Gospel of Z, Jones tells a story about a known monster (the zombie in "Z" and the werewolf in "Mongrels") but adding a fresh spin. Maybe, I told you about the genius idea in Gospel of Z where the living are monitoring scavengers to find recently deceased persons so they can destroy the body BEFORE it turns? If not, gosh, spoiler alert. Guess I should have said that sooner. Don't worry, it isn't a major moment in the plot. Mongrels is a coming of age story about modern day, 2025ish werewolves. These aren't the monsters of the old black-and-white Sunday afternoon watching tv movies. ...