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Wolfsong by TJ Klune

7 reviews

beetree's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Torture, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Child abuse, and Mental illness

elkboy23's review

adventurous emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Abandonment, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Mental illness, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Rape, Grief, and Domestic abuse

anoelle896's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, Death, Abandonment, and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Grief, Blood, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Torture

gen_wolfhailstorm's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Reading vlog: 

Where do I begin? I give this all the stars!

My heart soared. My heart raced. My heart plummeted. My heart broke. My heart healed, all in a continuous circuit.

I loved this story so much.
Ox and Joe were so beautiful to read about. I was uncomfortable about this all beginning at such a young age, but nothing inappropriate happened when it shouldn't have.

The connections between the characters were so beautifully written and I don't even know how to explain it... it was all candy canes and pinecones. Epic and awesome! 

A 5 out of 5 stars 100%!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Mental illness, Genocide, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Grief, Gore, Kidnapping, War, Death of parent, Violence, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, and Pedophilia

joygarcialim's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

This book was bad bad bad and crap crap crap. The best part of it was before I started reading it.

The book was so disjointed in so many parts that I didn’t know what happened between one part of the writing and other parts. There was basically no flow. Ox and Joe are walking red flags, even outside of their inappropriate relationship, they are immature, whiney and possessive. The dialogues between characters were so similar that they all seemed to have the same personality- one-dimensional. The book came across as it was written by a 12 year old with a Twilight obsession, with no understanding of character-building or world-building. Maybe except for the sex scenes, I would have been completely convinced this was written by a kid. The writing was that juvenile. I don’t understand why every time Ox has an emotion, he has to write out a soliloquy about them. I’m not talking artistic, literary soliloquies- they were very whiney and he thinks he’s suffered the most or something. And it’s repeatedly used. By other characters too. There was a lot of repetitiveness. It was a long book not because a lot happened, but because there was a lot of repetition and Klune used a new line for every sentence he wrote in some parts.

The sex scenes were probably the best part of the writing tbh. They were incredibly detailed and less whiney than the other parts- all 15+ pages of it. It wasn’t great, I got second-hand embarrassment from it. It didn’t need to be that long.

TJ Klune, if this book is a reflection of your reality, please get professional help from a therapist and a psychiatrist.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Violence, Death of parent, Mental illness, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Abandonment, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Addiction

sarrie's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Wolfsong is a quiet, sneaky little book. I'll admit on opening the arc I recieved (many thanks to the publisher), I didn't expect to get on with the writing which felt stilted and staccato at the beginning. I discovered however there was a very good reason for that style. The story is told from Ox's perspective, reflecting back on his life growing up with the Bennett's, a pack of werewolves who move into the house down the road soon after his drunk, abusive father leaves. He quickly becomes entangled in their lives, drawn to the family and specifically the youngest Joe. Joe becomes his shadow as they grow up into their twenties and learn to stand by each other and fall into a deeper relationship with each other and those around them. 
    To get my one concern out of the way, there is a bit of an odd age gap between our main character Ox and Joe. Joe was very, very young when he met Ox and felt the call of his fated mate in him. Ox had no idea till he was into his twenties. For the most part I felt like it was handled fairly well, you could tell Mr. Klune was extremely careful with it and I ended up happy with the way it was handled but I think some will still find it uncomfortable. 
    Besides that one concern I loved so much of this. It had me laughing out loud and then tense nearly crying at times. The emotional vibrancy here was powerful. The perspective of Ox, a simple guy, really cut things into the basics and the conflicts in the book felt realistic and believable. Even seeing the path the story was going to take I was heartbroken when those things happened. There are a lot of violence and even two deaths on page. I'll list what I remember of the triggers below, as it can be intense. 
    I'd highly recommend this for fans of romance, paranormal and fantasy especially. I am most definitely purchasing my own hardcover (budget be damned) as this is a story I can and will reread to annotate and enjoy. 

TWs: 
Graphic: Violence, Abandonment, Death of parent, Death, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Death of parent, Child abuse, and Mental illness
Minor: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Abandonment, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Mental illness, and Child abuse

Minor: Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

foreverinastory's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This was fantastic and now I hurt.

Rep: Bisexual male MC, MC's father is an alcoholic, achillean (gay coded) love interest with PTSD, asexual male side character, gay/achillean male side characters, Latine/x male side character

CWs: Graphic: Abandonment, alcohol consumption, blood, death, death of parents, grief, gun violence, injury/injury detail, mental illness (anxiety), murder, sexual content (one scene very graphic, several instances of sexual innuendo), violence, vomit. Moderate: body horror, child abuse/torture, kidnapping, alcoholism, emotional abuse (parents/child), suicidal thoughts. Minor: animal death. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Torture, Kidnapping, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Animal death