But I’m hooked and eager to see if Lemire’s got more of the same waiting for us.Īdmirable about Sweet Tooth, quite aside from Animal Armies' twists and turns, is Lemire’s willingness to “go weird” as the story allows for it. Only just now has the cast and pervading mission come into focus, maybe a moment later than it should.

We’re at the halfway point in Sweet Tooth. Then, on top of that, Lemire delivers a gut-punch moment late in the tale that’s grotesque, horrifying, and brilliant, such that I found myself still shaken by it moments after I’d put the book down.

It’s wholly gripping, and on top of that, some of Lemire’s page compositions are really impressive. The remarkable thing for me for the most part was not the plot, but the craftsmanship Lemire builds perhaps the most intricate chase sequence I’ve ever seen, in which whom the characters think they’re fleeing is actually whom they’re approaching. With Animal Armies, Lemire’s post-apocalyptic story finally gets cooking. Reader, I tell you when I finished this book, I was not all right. I thought the second book was fine, though maybe lacking a little bit following the first. I read the first volume of Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth and liked it well enough.

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