When Laina hears that her brother has been shot by police, she assumes it's another case of police brutality against a black man. But when she gets a hold of the bodycam video, she learns that it's much more complex than that: Laina's brother was a werewolf, or something of the sort, and in monster form when he was gunned down. When Laina leaks the footage online, there's a visceral response across the country — but then the footage gets mysteriously edited to remove any proof of monsters, and the world has a collective moment of "did that actually happen? Nah..." and goes about its business. Well, except for the conspiracy theorists and the actual monsters that is.
With this novel, Turnbull has created a fantasy world full of monsters living among us, and as the story develops, it's hard to tell whether the monsters are really the ones who can shift bodies and breathe fire and manipulate technology and become invisible...or if they're the "regular everyday people" who lash out based on their fears and assumptions. It perfectly captures the zeitgeist of today's political situation and culture wars, and I cannot wait to see what Turnbull has up his sleeve for the next book in this series.
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