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4.09 AVERAGE
4.09 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
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
Tell The Wolves I'm Home was assigned to me for summer reading and at first, I thought it was okay but then as the book progressed I found that the relationships were --to put it lightly-- weird, creepy, and toxic. Overall, this book seemed to focus more on the characters than the plot and that just didn't work well for me. In order to enjoy a book that's almost solely character-driven, you have to actually connect with the characters in the book but I feel that the characters of Tell The Wolves I'm Home just didn't make me want to keep reading.
"you could sit close to them, nestle into them so you could hear the machine of them churning away. you could press your ear against that person's back, listening to the rhythm of them, knowing that you were both made of the same exact stuff. you could do things like that."
hunhnnnnn. oh my god
hunhnnnnn. oh my god
I loved this book. I wanted to get to the end, but I didn't want the story to be over.
Absolutely fantastic. Can't say enough good about this book!
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
I gave it 5 stars because it hit particularly home for me as someone whose artist guncle was their best friend and contributed a lot to their personhood. I really enjoyed the complexity surrounding June’s feelings. She really is just a kid figuring out what love means, and this story is about the different types of love that form you as a person. I loved it
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
In 1987 there was a lot of misinformation about AIDS, but something that was interesting to me in this novel, about a teenage girl who befriends her late uncle's bereaved boyfriend, was the lack of homophobia. The girl's family has violently negative feelings about the boyfriend (whom they contend gave the uncle - the girl's mother's brother - AIDS and consider a murderer) but not because he's gay. Anyway, this is a powerful family drama surrounding the girl's friendship with her uncle's lover, who is also dying of AIDS.