Bored Gay Werewolf: "An ungodly joy" Attitude Magazine

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I wanted to give up after the first chapter but I pushed myself, wanting to give it a fair shot, I’m 44% in and I just can’t! While the werewolf storyline took a backseat to navigating identity and complex relationships, it brought humor and carried significant queer themes. But as Brian gets closer to Tyler's pack, and alienated from Nik and Darby, he realises that Tyler's expansion plans are much more nefarious than a little lupine enlightenment.

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.

I highlighted so many quotes that made me laugh, and I love how, behind the silly werewolf disguise (affectionate), this book is actually a deeply satirical exploration of queer culture, capitalism, and toxic masculinity. Author Tony Santorella uses the concept of being a werewolf to discuss a journey of self-discovery where he realises that while his life may not be exciting, it is good. The author has done an excellent job of bringing the characters to life and creating a vivid sense of place throughout the story. 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.

He's been struggling to manage his transition to adulthood almost as much as his monthly transitions to a werewolf. He also happens to be a werewolf, which isn’t really helping the situation, especially when dead bodies keep turning up after the full moon.

The werewolf lore was a great allegory for how toxic MLMs and cults prey on vulnerable people and this book does a great job exploring that in a really humorous and smart way. The witty banter between the characters is genuinely funny, and I loved Brian’s cynical, bemused, and indeed, bored, narration. Living with his conservative Christian parents becomes less than ideal, prompting Brian to make the move to the city. Brian works at a restaurant, spends his time drinking with his coworkers Nik and Darby or having Grindr hookups, and doesn't deal well with his monthly transitions into a wolf. Bored Gay Werewolf is very much about finding your pack and embracing the people who embrace you for who you are, rather than changing yourself to fit in with people you don’t even want to fit in with in the first place.

He’s been struggling to manage his transition to adulthood almost as much as his monthly transitions to a werewolf. He doesn’t really have a plan of how to live his life as a werewolf, drinking heavily and often waking up in a forest with blood on his face and he knows he has killed at least a couple of people. Brian attempts to make some other new friends over the course of the book, and these characters present a chilling insight into millennial straight culture and toxic masculinity.Overall, this was a fairly calm but entertaining story with queer perspective and sweet friendship and a main character who was imperfectly human (and imperfectly werewolf)! I highlighted so much of Tyler's speech as rage inducing frequently, so the author here did a great job of executing the trust fund "bro" character well. When he meets Tyler, a fellow werewolf with big ambitions, he thinks that this is his chance to become the person (or wolf) he’s always wanted to be. I think these two wildly varying tones conflicted too much with each other for the book to feel cohesive. As Brian delves deeper into Tyler's worldview, darker motivations emerge, and he must use everything he's learned and everyone he knows to escape it.