Maxwell's Reviews > Mongrels

This was the first book of Stephen Graham Jones’s that I just didn’t really vibe with. It’s not bad by any means, I just think this would’ve worked better as a short story or novella. The timeline jumped too much for me between past and present—in fact there doesn’t seem to really be a ‘present’ storyline at all, it’s just a bunch of chapters told in various times of this boys life. You slowly piece together information about his life and his family, which I did appreciate. But overall while I respect SGJ as a writer and crafter of sentences, this story didn’t do as much for me as others I’ve read from him.