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Picked this up from my local library and read it in a day
I like the way it's written, it reminds me of a worse version of No One is Talking About This (which I actually liked). It sometimes manages to sort of feel like a mountain lion's
internal dialogue mostly through formal elements (limited punctuation & short, punchy paragraphs).
However, the plot is r-slurred. The first half is kind of cool, it's just the lion being a lion in Griffith Park
. Then about halfway through the book completely goes to shit. Some gentrifiers set a wholesome homeless encampment on fire and the lion jumps on one of the 
to put him out and another 
throws a bottle at the 
, chasing him off. The fire gets out of control and drives the lion into the city. He shacks up with a neglected high school girl, living first in her house's crawlspace, then with her in her room when the crawlspace floods. This is all very dumb, but the book's ending is offensively stupid. The lion is in the girl's car, caught in traffic, having been caught in the house by the housekeeper, when he spies the gentrifier who burned down the wholesome homeless encampment earlier. Overcome by bloodlust, the lion opens the car door and pounces on the gentrifier guy, killing him instantly. The way this is written makes it feel like a juvenile revenge fantasy where we are supposed to be cheering the lion on. It's a childish, stupid ending.
There are a few more things I want to note without this becoming a full essay:
The lion never fricks/gets fricked by a human
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@Beastfrom20000straggums
Every little page break chapter ends with a Rupi Kaurisms like
"if you feel alone in the world
find someone to worship you"
Lion implies climate change is making fires worse and rain scarce, but is < 5 years old
Too much cutesy shit like calling LA "ellay" and mishearing scarcity as "scarce city". This is completely unbelievable from the perspective of a mountain lion.
The queer lion shit that the book blurb hypes so hard is barely in the book and feels more a product of the lion's profound loneliness and isolation than anything else. It's a lot more interesting in that regard than I expected
I think there's something here and Henry Hoke has some talent but needs a
editor instead of 
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