Thursday, October 15, 2015

A "biting" story!





Yes, just for Halloween, a mesmerizing story about Lycanthropes. ( humans that turn into wolves and back) The author, Toby Barlow, is a local man and wrote the book, Sharp Teeth all in prose poetry form, no less. Library Journal says " Down and out in Los Angeles, Anthony reluctantly takes a job as a dogcatcher, though his sympathies lie more with the death-bound dogs in the pound than with his coworkers. When he falls in love with a woman he meets, apparently by accident, he becomes unwittingly drawn into her world--a dark supernatural world of werewolves--and into the lives and ambitions of the rival packs of shapeshifters who haunt the fringes of society. Pulsing with feral intensity, Barlow's debut depicts the lives of seemingly ordinary people who have crossed the boundaries between human and beast and between predator and prey. Written in a free verse style that perfectly complements the action as it moves from slower-paced narratives to short, jagged scenes of graphic violence and heartbreak."

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