No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull

"One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother was shot and killed by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are real. And they want everyone to know it.

As creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, seeking safety through visibility, their emergence sets off a chain of seemingly unrelated events. Members of a local werewolf pack are threatened into silence. A professor follows a missing friend’s trail of bread crumbs to a mysterious secret society. And a young boy with unique abilities seeks refuge in a pro-monster organization with secrets of its own. Meanwhile, more people start disappearing, suicides and hate crimes increase, and protests erupt globally, both for and against the monsters.

At the center is a mystery no one thinks to ask: Why now? What has frightened the monsters out of the dark?

The world will soon find out." (goodreads.com)

No Gods, No Monsters is a weird book. However, I found it thoroughly enjoyable! In this fantasy/sci fi mashup, magical beings get outed as real after a werewolf is the victim of a police shooting. Footage is released, but it is edited quickly so that most people only hear about this via the word of others. This creates a divide in the world - the people who believe in and/or support magical beings, and the ones who don't believe in them and/or don't support them. 

This book follows a diverse cast of characters as they navigate the world post the magical-being outing. This sounds like a typical fantasy; however, the weird part is the science fiction element. I won't spoil it for you, but it caught me totally by surprise! 

I totally recommend this book to you if you like strange fantasy books; it's definitely an intriguing one!

Darcy Lepore
Library Director

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