We're then taken along with this new gang, which has taken some of the members in from Lark's pack. There is a main pack with Lark at the head of it, but his group is torn apart by some rival lycanthropes. The setup for Sharp Teeth seems great at the start.

After going through a vicious (although brief) transformation, these dogs can tear your throat out at a moment's notice. Don't let their appearance fool you, though. This was an interesting take on the werewolf genre because usually these creatures are depicted as giant 6-7 foot tall beasts that still have opposable thumbs. They can pass as common household canines if need be and some of the characters do that in order to blend in to surroundings or go into hiding for a little while. Here's what I mean.īarlow's werewolves are more dog than giant hulking wolf. The sentences are broken up in lines, but I read it like the end of each line was a period. This lasted for about three chapters before it got annoying, though. They would have raw emotion and bursts of thought. They wouldn't have neat organized paragraphs in their minds. When I first opened the book and saw the prose, I thought, 'Crap, is this whole thing a big poem?' The words flow like freethought which I first saw as a good fit for the world the characters lived in being they're essentially animals. The first thing that you need to know about Sharp Teeth (aside from the whole bit about werewolves) is that it's written kind of weird. That leader can be challenged in a fight if he's seen as weak or not worthy. Just like regular canines, there's a top dog that leads each gang. Each of them is fighting for what they feel belongs to them. Basically there are rival gangs of werewolves roaming around East Los Angeles. What if he can change into a dog with a thought instead of having to wait for a full moon? And what if he was a part of a gang of lycanthropes roaming the streets, not hunting down humans, but just living and getting by day by day like the rest of us? That's sort of the premise behind Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow. Imagine if you will that the strange guy you see walking down the sidewalk might actually be a werewolf.

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