Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illness..., Kristen ONeal
Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illness..., Kristen ONeal
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Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

Author: Kristen O'Neal

Narrator: Soneela Nankani

Unabridged: 12 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/27/2021


Synopsis

Priya worked hard to pursue her dreams of going to Stanford to study medicine, but the fallout from undiagnosed Lyme disease sends her back to her childhood home in New Jersey during her sophomore year—and leaves her wondering if
she’ll ever be able to return to the way things were. Thankfully, she has her online pen pal, Brigid, and the rest of the members of “oof ouch my bones,” a virtual support group that meets on Discord to crack jokes and vent about their own chronic illnesses.

When Brigid suddenly goes offline, Priya does the unthinkable: she steals the family car and drives to Pennsylvania to check on her friend. Priya isn’t sure what to expect, but it isn’t the horrifying creature that’s shut in the basement. With
Brigid nowhere to be found, Priya begins to puzzle together an impossible but obvious truth: the creature might be a werewolf—and the werewolf might be Brigid. As Brigid’s unique condition worsens, their friendship will be deepened and
challenged in unexpected ways, forcing them to confront their ideas of what it means to be normal.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Starr

*UPDATE 3/22* Yeah I'm seeing a lot of people jumping on this book for having a cover that "compares POC to animals" and I am begging you to stop jumping to the worst conclusions possible in the names of purity policing and actually wait and read the book. Lycanthropy is not used as a metaphor for r......more

Goodreads review by Jo

This was extremely contemporary (a group of Tumblr friends start a discord server to talk about and support each other through their aches, pains and feelings - one of them is a werewolf) and absolutely lovely. Lycanthropy and chronic illness wasn't an intersection I knew I wanted, until now, but it......more

I kept telling myself I was going to rate this book four stars. You know, it had some really great parts, but also a few parts that irritated me, and overall that probably balanced out to four stars, right? By the end, I just couldn't bring myself to knock off a full star. Yeah, there were a few bit......more

Goodreads review by SusanG

Update: This book is about chronic illness not race. The vast majority of people who actually read this book state in reviews that it is a well written book that benefits people with chronic illness. Because the author is white and the MC is a POC some in own voices movement have co-opted the discus......more