The Devourers

In Kolkata, India, a college professor agrees to transcribe a stranger’s collection of notebooks, old parchments, and scribbles on human skins. 

Through his translations, the reader learns about a race of werewolf-like creatures that eat humans and absorb their memories and souls in the process. One such creature, Fenrir, fathers a child by a human woman out of a desire to create life instead of destroying it. 

This book contains a lot of violence but through the eyes of the shapeshifters, the reader gets a sharp look at gender fluidity and relationships between sexes. What I remember most from… show more.

This book also haunts me.

It's the story of a "half-werewolf," as told by that half-werewolf to a professor, Alok, in Kolkata, India. There are tales written on skins, and tales of changing skins—these werewolves, though, they don't just change shape.

They devour, body and soul, their victims, and so change themselves in the process. I love me a good mixed genre, and this one is fantasy, horror, and historical fiction together. And the prose is just beautiful.