Graphic novel fans might know Lemire for his Essex County series. Sweet Tooth has some of the same wild, imaginative, secretive feel to it, but it's different. Gus is a hybrid boy- half deer, half human, raised secretly by his religious father in the deep woods and taught to shun strangers. When Gus's father dies, he is left to fend for himself against hunters, the military, and his own naivety; the reader is just as much in the dark as to what disaster killed so much of the world's population and what awaits Gus outside of the deep woods. A good read- I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.
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