This was….not what I thought it was. I was looking for a diverse, fun, queer werewolf romance and while this is most of those things it is certainly not fun and much more dark than I thought it would be. I only made it through three chapters as a result. 

In the first two chapters, we see Tony dealing with his semi-absent, alcoholic father and he has a best friend that relentlessly bullies people, including Eli the other love interest. Tony sometimes says “that’s not cool man” but mostly watches from the sidelines and then asks Eli later if he’s alright. So I didn’t love that. Then, Tony admits to Eli in a moment of vulnerability that he has asthma and has to use his inhaler before track meets or else he can’t compete. And from that, Eli then STEALS his inhaler before a meet??? Tony has an asthma attack and instead of giving back the inhaler, Eli throws it in the woods, and the paramedics have to come help Tony. What???? Why!! 

So yeah, it was not a fun romance, I was not rooting for them to be together. Also the art was both kinda retro but also supposedly modern? The choice to do it in black & white didn’t help me determine the time setting, but it did add to the creepiness which I think is what they were going for? The artists switching between each chapter wasn’t as disconcerting as I thought it might be, but I still found it an odd choice.