Review: Santa Plays Mean; Therianthropes must save the species
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 8, 2012
Shapeshifters AnonymousPOOR Weston Smith. A career shift moved him hundreds of miles from his family and friends, he's a little lonely, very busy-and a few times a month, he's digesting strange foreign objects, such as change, zippers, crosses, and teeth-not his. Plus on those occasions he wakes up nude, in some other room of his apartment other than his bedroom. His GP sends him to a psychiatrist, while Weston goes for the Internet and starts hunting. Oh, oh! There may be more to this than meets the eye-and Weston begins to research lycanthropy and therianthropy (humans changing into wolves, and humans morphing into animals)--and then he stumbles upon Shapeshifters Anonymous.A delightfully tongue-in-cheek and almost naughty spin on traditional werewolf myths, "Shapeshifters Anonymous" presents a surprising three-dimensional protagonist with what could prove to be a major serious difficulty. Weston Smith is a joy in himself, as are the other characters he encounters Author Konrath manages to put an unexpected spin on both religion and centuries-old legend simultaneously. This is certainly an approach to lycanthropy I never would have expected, but I chortled all the way to the much-appreciated ending.