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I've read a couple of young adult novels that haunted me more than this one: Pippin's Journal, Cruddy, The Lord of the Flies. Look, I'm not going to kid you, this book is pretty dark at times. On the other hand, I'm a pretty sensitive reader and despite the upsetting events that befall the hero, I couldn't put the book down. (For reference I couldn't finish Lemony Snicket's The Bad Beginning because I found it too upsetting)

Part of why I couldn't put it down is that there are no lulls in the story. Myron is always in danger or escaping from danger. But there are other reasons. There's oddball humor inserted among the death defying escapes. There are some charming literary references. I'm pretty sure the crunchy granola that Myron eats while travelling in the woods is a Pinkwater reference. There's a large variety of well-realized characters: killers, con-men, ordinary bullies, insane waifs, hobos, and of course, all the animals.

If you like Pinkwater or Roald Dahl or Lemony Snicket, I think this book will be right up your alley. As for what age group it's for, I'd venture to say it's for young adults of all ages, 12 to 12,000.


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Immortal Lycanthropes Hal Johnson Teagan White Books Reviews

I've never read anything quite like this, and I can't quite classify it--and I don't mean that it "has a good personality." (Though it does. You should totally date this book.) It's just that it's marketed for ages 12 and up, so technically it's older middle grade? But it has YA sensibilities and an adult voice, so I guess it's more of a crossover book. I guess "12 and up" really is the most accurate description, but you have to shelve it somewhere, right? But everyone should read it!

Anyway, it's about a boy named Myron Horowitz, by all appearances a 13-year-old boy with a face as ugly as his name. He falls in with some shapechanging animals so-called "immortal lycanthropes" who can assume human form. Some of them are kind of after him, and he's after some of them, and there are secret societies coming out of the woodwork, and there's even a doomsday device. Everyone wants to know who he is, especially Myron. He has lots of questions, most of all who he can trust and what his destiny is, as he travels the country encountering quirky and sage characters like an immortal gorilla, an immortal moose, an immortal red panda, and so on. And the answers to those questions will surprise you, dear reader. This is a trippy road trip with plenty of humor tempered by tragedy and philosophy; as Myron learns, sometimes all you can do is hold on for dear life and see where you end up. I think this book is a born classic that will hopefully be around for a long time.
Look, I like a clever title as much as the next guy, but there's something appealing about a book about immortal lycanthropes that's called IMMORTAL LYCANTHROPES. Sort of like SNAKES ON A PLANE. You're selling the premise.

Setting the title aside, this is a strange, funny, engaging YA book in a style you (or at least I) don't run into often in YA. Sort of like WONDER, if WONDER were written by Daniel Pinkwater and featured *checks notes* immortal lycanthropes. You should read it! Or give it to an impressionable child and have them read it to you!
The first chapter was very entertaining, and I loved the voice. However, that all fades in the subsequent chapters with the story running all over the place. It felt as if the author tried to blend a few story ideas into one. The ending was terrible.
I am very disappointed with this book.
Immortal Lycanthropes is aimed at young adults, but it is a perfect read for adults of all types. The wit is biting and the plot is intricate, with everything from conspiracy theories to on the road survivalism.
I don't normally read YA, but my friends were all talking about this book, so I gave into peer pressure and bought a copy. Sometimes, giving in to pressure really rewarding!

The opening, as mentioned in other reviews, is excellent. I strongly recommend reading the first few pages using 's look inside feature to get a sense of the quality and sharp wit of the author's writing style. If you don't like that style, then don't buy the book, also I pity you.

On its most basic level, Immortal Lycanthorpes is an adventure novel, and if it didn't rise above that level, it would still be a pretty good. What makes it great is Johnson's dedication to minutia so obscure that I'm sure most of his negative reviewers thought he was just making this crazy crap up. This minutia is not decorative. It is there to illustrate what for me is the novel's core conflict. Johnson's protagonist is thrown into a world of secret societies, con artists, thieves, murders, and of course immortal people that can turn into animals, all with their own "truths" and agendas. For poor Myron, ultimate survival is not just staying a step ahead, its UNDERSTANDING himself and his place in the world in the face of so many competing and contradictory informational authorities.

Surprised that universal this could be in a Young adult novel? So was I, but this is a surprising novel, all the way through.
I've read a couple of young adult novels that haunted me more than this one Pippin's Journal, Cruddy, The Lord of the Flies. Look, I'm not going to kid you, this book is pretty dark at times. On the other hand, I'm a pretty sensitive reader and despite the upsetting events that befall the hero, I couldn't put the book down. (For reference I couldn't finish Lemony Snicket's The Bad Beginning because I found it too upsetting)

Part of why I couldn't put it down is that there are no lulls in the story. Myron is always in danger or escaping from danger. But there are other reasons. There's oddball humor inserted among the death defying escapes. There are some charming literary references. I'm pretty sure the crunchy granola that Myron eats while travelling in the woods is a Pinkwater reference. There's a large variety of well-realized characters killers, con-men, ordinary bullies, insane waifs, hobos, and of course, all the animals.

If you like Pinkwater or Roald Dahl or Lemony Snicket, I think this book will be right up your alley. As for what age group it's for, I'd venture to say it's for young adults of all ages, 12 to 12,000.