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Wolfsong by TJ Klune

10 reviews

helfire124's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Vomit, Murder, Cursing, Abandonment, Body horror, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Stalking, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

vael's review against another edition

Stopped at chapter 22, I asked what happened next and it's more of nothing.
The book is just nothing.
Ox my most hated fictional character ♡

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Toxic friendship

redd13's review

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

I was enthralled, but found the grooming between a 16 year old and a 10 year old slightly icky. Nothing happened until they were adults, but it was uncomfortable. 

I do love the family and I’m rooting for them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Moderate: Grief

negs's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Gore, Gaslighting, Murder, and Sexual content

Minor: Animal death

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

nat_kiverse's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Torture, Child abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Confinement, Vomit, Blood, Death, Murder, and Violence

bel017's review

dark

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

It was way too dark for me so I skimmed and skipped through the last third or so. Should have checked the content warnings, but I was in a bricks and mortar shop and I loved *Under the Whispering Door* and *House in the Cerulean Sea* so didn't think to look it up online. I can't cope with child torture, or parent/child death, or grief. Too dark. Especially after how hard I was laughing at Joe stammering about mounting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Torture, Death of parent, Abandonment, Grief, and Blood

Moderate: Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Death, Gore, Confinement, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Minor: Vomit, Domestic abuse, and Gaslighting

ruthiedr89's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Murder, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Blood, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Torture, and Physical abuse

Minor: Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Gun violence, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, and Pedophilia

shushkeepitdown's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I got into reading TJ klune books and this definitely was not what I expected. After reading two of his other books this is more darker with a lot more heavier topics. I personally didn't mind it at first until

the age gap, ox was 16 when Joe was 11. Ox felt sexually towards him while Joe was only 17. It really made me not like it. Especially during scenes where ox would have to defend it by saying he is almost 18.

also personally the whole wolf thing made me giggle like scenes I couldn't take seriously when they mentioned alpha or mating. I loved how the emotions were written, grief is a tough thing to express beautifully, it's bitter and cruel and the book shows it in such a wonderful way. I don't know if I'll continue reading the series but it wasn't that bad. However there was a lot of repetition of words and phrases and certain times they just wouldn't stop apologising as well. If you're into werewolf things I guess you could read it but definitely not the book I would recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Blood, Child abuse, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Murder, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Gaslighting, and Sexual content

Minor: Vomit

myreadingodyssey's review

emotional funny sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Child abuse, Gaslighting, and Kidnapping