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Brian, stuck in a cycle of missed therapy appointments, party drugs, and awkward Grindr hookups, starts blacking out and waking up in increasingly wolf-adjacent states. It never got too dark or heavy. Is it just the queer millennial condition?
It’s a novel that straddles the line between horror and comedy, but always lands with emotional bite. Queerness is central – not just in identity but in form.
So, of course, I had to check out the blurb. It gives space for queer teens to be messy, loud, emotional, and powerful – and that’s something worth howling about.
Bored Gay Werewolf
Full Bored Gay Werewolf Review By Jasmine
★ ★ ★ ⯪
This book was honestly such a chaotic joy to read – and I mean that in the best possible way.
Bored Gay Werewolf delivers exactly what the title promises: a snarky, disaffected gay werewolf trying to get through life in a world that’s just as confusing and absurd as he is.
It’s less about resolution and more about acceptance, growth, and finding your pack – whatever that looks like.
👋 Final Thoughts
Bored Gay Werewolf is gloriously unhinged, sharply funny, and bursting with heart. It’s satire, it’s fantasy, it’s a metaphor, it’s a plot device – it’s kind of everything at once, and it totally works.
Bored Gay Werewolf is strange, fast, funny, heartfelt, a little bit chaotic, and full of bite (sorry, had to).
More silly queer stories, please. It’s not perfect, but it is a blast. This has not influenced my review.*
This was great!
I really like those main characters who are just so normal and realistically flawed.
Werewolves? Not perfectly imperfect in beautiful ways, but believably humanly flawed… even if they’re actually a werewolf. The premise alone – a bored twenty-something navigating queer identity, late-stage capitalism, and a literal werewolf pyramid scheme – is so wonderfully unhinged that it immediately pulled me in. Here are a few things readers often wonder about the book:
Who should read Bored Gay Werewolf?
If you’re tired of tragic queer stories and want something fun, feral, and full of feelings, this book is for you.
Plus, every character sounded different enough to easily tell them apart.
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)!
*Rating: 4 Stars // Read Date: 2023 // Format: Audiobook*
Recommended For:
Anyone who likes realistically flawed characters, unique werewolf portrayals, gay rep that isn't about romance, and friendship.
Original Review @ Metaphors and Moonlight
Atlantic Books
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Brian, an aimless slacker in his twenties, has been struggling to manage his transition to adulthood almost as much as his monthly transitions to a werewolf.
Those topics and other little things were included so naturally, just part of the book and the character.
But it wasn’t too serious of a book. But honestly… who cares?