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Wolfsong by TJ Klune

27 reviews

voxrusso's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Abandonment, Sexual content, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping and Alcoholism

Minor: Child abuse

greymouse's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Abandonment, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, and Grief

Moderate: Gore, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Body horror, and Blood

Minor: Child abuse, Animal death, Bullying, Kidnapping, and Torture

eidal's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Death, Violence, Abandonment, Sexual content, Murder, Grief, and Blood

Moderate: Cursing, Child abuse, Torture, and Kidnapping

Minor: Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, and Emotional abuse

roseangel2's review

adventurous emotional fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Moderate: Rape, Murder, Abandonment, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, and Alcoholism

Minor: Domestic abuse

17kmcollins's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent, Death, and Gore

Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Bullying

ravenk28's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

This book has me searching for words to describe how amazing it was. I was consumed by this book from the very beginning. From the way Ox was introduced to the way he worked through his hardships. I fell in love with every single character and felt every emotion portrayed by the TJ Klune, he truly is a wonderful story teller.  

I felt such a personal connection to Ox, to his struggles and his way of protecting his pack. Him and Joe were so meant to be in every way possible

This was an all round phenomenal book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Torture, and Child abuse

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, and Gore

booksnbrooches's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

This was everything. The slow burn romance with werewolves is everything my 13-year-old self loved about Twilight, but it’s so so so much better. TJ Klune is officially my favorite current author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, and Cursing

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Death of parent, Violence, Homophobia, and Alcoholism

k80mae's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.25

I find myself struggling to write any kind of nuanced review for this book. On the one hand, I absolutely devoured it in just a little over a day. I read the first 300 pages in one sitting. I found the characters and their voices to be absolutely compelling, even if their arcs felt circuitous and repetitious at times. Ox especially had an absolutely wonderful narrative voice and made it so easy to be immersed in his story when normally, I find the first person POV absolutely grating. Every single one of his platonic relationships were compelling and interesting and I wish had been fleshed out even more than they were. The interpersonal dynamics here were fascinating and so much fun to read. 

On the other hand, I don't know if I was really sold on the romance here. Next to Ox and the rest of the cast of characters, Joe did not feel nearly as fleshed out or strong of a character. Throughout the book, he was the only character whose voice I felt did not land for me. Considering he is the main romantic interest and driving force behind Ox's actions, it made it difficult to invest myself in the romance. What I find myself most distracted by, however, is that I was completely unable to look at the world-building and plot and not think that the author had to have been inspired by fandom for a very specific television show popular in the 2010s. Nearly every world-building element felt like a detail I had already seen before, to the point where I wouldn't be surprised to have found this on AO3. I don't want to outright say that this is a negative quality because I do think that it absolutely worked for this story, but it made for a very distracting read even as I sped through it. 

Overall, I'm not sure if I will personally continue with the series, but this is absolutely the kind of book that has a very particular audience who I hope is able to find it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Ableism, Grief, Murder, Death of parent, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Alcoholism and Bullying

Sexual assault is threatened, but the description in that threat is repeatedly vivid so the SA tag is necessary. The adult/minor relationship is a bit of a grey area, but when Ox and Joe enter a romantic relationship, Joe is still only 17.

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

bialves's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Rape, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Addiction, Death, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Torture, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty