The Devourers

This was an unusual novel, billed as a werewolf novel, but it isn't exactly. It's a shape-shifter story which takes place in India now and several hundred years in the past. It tackles issues of rape, gender-roles, identity, and love. I was not consumed by this story within a story as I thought I'd be, but it does have glorious prose and its take on the shape-shifter trope feels fresh. It won the Lambda Literary Award for SF/Fantasy/Horror and was nominated for the Tiptree Award. Although I didn't thoroughly enjoy the book, I feel that it is something special and worth a read.

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