Name: Bored Gay Werewolf
Rating: 3.416666666666667 (6 reviews)
ISBN: 9781838957018

Tony Santorella

Bored Gay Werewolf

How do I actually know what this person looks like from this description… 

Apiecalypse Jen

He looks like the oldest school shooter in history.

ephe

this wasn’t as bad as i thought it would be there are some seriously interesting idea, the execution was just… poor? the tone is satirical and funny at times, but the author knows when to be serious. i was dubious at first, i didn’t really know what to make of this book, i wouldn’t say i found it good though, but it was definitely enjoyable. i think what makes this book interesting is the critic of toxic masculinity, capitalism et cætera… i genuinely thought it was interesting to read. i didn’t like the main character, he was maybe too… cliché and one-dimensional i guess i could put it like that, i know you’re not meant to like every main characters to enjoy a book but it was my impression that you were supposed to like him, even relate to him, he was truly exasperating at times. i loved darby and nik, especially darby. the end definitely felt like too much for me, i really didn’t like it at all but it goes with the rest of the story i guess… it was so rushed too i don’t know i really didn’t like the ending.

Brian, an aimless slacker in his twenties, works double shifts at his waiter job, never cleans his apartment and gets black-out drunk with his restaurant comrades, 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-entrepreneur determined to explore exponential growth strategies in the mythological wellness market. Tyler has got a plan and he wants Brian to be part of it, and weirdly his brand of self-help punditry actually encourages Brian to shape up and to stop accidently marking out bad tippers at the restaurant as potential monthly victims. But as Brian gets closer to Tyler's pack and drifts further away from Nik and Darby, he realises 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

"An ungodly joy" Attitude Magazine

Is it Shakespeare? No. Was is a really fun book to blast through on a summer afternoon? Yes. Take it for what it is and you’re going to enjoy yourself. The cast are a gay server and and his eclectic friends from the restaurant where he works. Another werewolf bro who wants to try and recruit our gay warewolf protagonist into some kind of influencer program for men who need to reclaim their inner wolf, join a pack, work out, eat steak, and like, achieve peak male greatness. But the question becomes what is greatness? And by whose metric? 

Bored Gay Werewolf

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