Bored Gay Werewolf: The Awoooooosome Word-of-mouth Hit

Bored Gay Werewolf: The Awoooooosome Word-of-mouth Hit

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Description

Juno Dawson's Her Majesty's Royal Coven meets a Jim Jarmusch movie. A directionless college-dropout deals with sexuality, minimum-wage jobs, lunar cycles, toxic masculinity and the everyday perils of life as a modern werewolf.

Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about with his friends Nik and Darby. He's been struggling to manage his transition to adulthood almost as much as his monthly transitions to a werewolf. Really, he is not great at the whole werewolf thing, and his recent murderous slip-ups have caught the attention of Tyler, a Millennial were-mentor determined to take the mythological world by storm.

Tyler has got a plan, and weirdly his self-help punditry actually encourages Brian to shape up and to stop accidentally marking out guys who ghosted him on Grindr as potential monthly victims. But as Brian gets closer to Tyler's pack, and alienated from Nik and Darby, he realizes that Tyler's expansion plans are much more nefarious than a little lupine enlightenment...

Big-hearted, goofy, anarchic and funny, Bored Gay Werewolf is a smart take on the doomsday logic of late capitalism and the complicated meeting point of masculinity and sexuality. More than that, though, and like Scooby Doo with Grindr or Stranger Things with sex and ennui, it’s a buddy novel about finding your pack, the power of friendship, and learning how to be comfortable in your own, shaggy werewolf pelt.

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Format
Hardback
Pages
256
Price
18.65 €

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Anders als erwartet

Ich habe mit einer queeren, fluffy und lustigen Story gerechnet. Tatsächlich befasst sich das Buch mit wichtigen Themen sehr kritisch. Toxische Männlichkeit, Selbstoptimierung, Gesellschaftskritik, Found Family und Vertrauen. Dazu viel Sarkasmus und Ironie. In der Mitte fand ich es etwas zäh. Das Ende verspricht mehr und ich bin gespannt.

Anders als erwartet
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Musste erst reinkommen

Ich hatte sehr viel Spaß beim Lesen, musste aber erst reinkommen. Am Anfang war es schwierig zu erkennen wohin die ganze Story führen würde. Eine sehr gute Kritik an toxischer Männlichkeit und dem Bild des "idealen Körpers" Die letzten Kapitel haben die Story zwar sehr gut, aber für meinen Geschmack etwas zu schnell abgehandelt. Hätte sich ruhig noch etwas ziehen können.

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