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Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

18 reviews

rachelkreadsbookz's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Alcohol

AIDS stigma portrayal

taural41's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Incest and Alcohol

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense slow-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

5.0

oh...this book truly is wonderful; its so sad yet so beautiful and full of hope. its a tragedy through and through - of everyone losing finn, of june losing toby - but its full of such love that it doesnt feel as heartbreaking as it could. and the love really is so rich in this book. june loves finn - i do have my issues with that, but i understand why she feels what she feels - and finn and toby loved each other and danni loved her brother and she loves her children and june loves greta and finn loved everyone and love...its everywhere in this book, for both the good and the bad. its the fuel for this book and the characters and it makes this book what it is. and thats why it hurts so much because love only does so much, only goes so far and then when you can no longer love that person it goes - where? you have to keep it inside yourself because the love you have one person is for them; you cant put it on someone else. so you keep it inside and you hold it close the way you held the person you loved close. and like...god. i could wax poetic about this book forever. its just so good. and the title...it hurts because at first to me it meant that june could tell the wolves about finn, she could tell that hes home but by the end of the book is dead, the wolves are dead, and now the wolves can tell finn that june is home. like...god. pain.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Terminal illness, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death

inirac's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Overall feels like the most accurate representation of making decisions as a teenager, so we’ll done there. But had to really convince myself to keep reading half way thru. I guess I’m glad I did? I don’t know how I feel yet

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Vomit, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Eating disorder

piastri's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.25

There is something so completely raw about this book that really caught me off guard. 

The way June talks about her uncle, and Toby to an extent, made me deeply uncomfortable but i’m willing to be a bit forgiving because i remember being fourteen and having a messy family where i didn’t get to see people for years and that was a weird time. but it’s definitely something that marked the book down for me. 

depiction of the aids crisis, however, and the way that it affected the people involved was beautiful in a terrible way. my heart breaks for those who we lost and whose stories have died with them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Incest, Grief, and Alcohol

relin's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

It was interesting enough to finish, but I don't think this book was for me. I struggled with some of the ways that the relationships and characters were shown especially. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Confinement, Drug use, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Deportation

nat_montego's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Heartbreakingly sad

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Homophobia, and Grief

Minor: Alcohol

gondorgirl's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Grief, and Alcohol

tarajoy90's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, and Grief

Moderate: Alcohol

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

3.0

June's crush on her gay uncle, and later his boyfriend, was not handled super well. Every adult in her life pretended to not see it or treated it in a very "oh ho ho she'll grow out of it" way. This inappropriate crush on adult figures is a way neglected children reach out for attention. As June and her sister are left to their own devices during tax season you can really see where the susceptibility to substance abuse (alcohol and cigarettes) and need for adult attention comes from. This acceptance/ignorance of the crush gives the story an incest or 'attraction to minors' feel when it was June primarily reaching out for romantic attention and the adults around her redirecting her but not outright rejecting her.

There is a scene where she kisses an adult on the mouth or fantasizes about doing so.  June pretends Toby is her lover when she takes him from the hospital via taxi to her home, where he dies.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Homophobia, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Hate crime, Incest, Pedophilia, and Racism

About 88% through the book it is mentioned that 'the wolves in the woods' were several feral dogs that ended up being shot. It was an unnecessary detail.