Reviews - When the Wolf Comes Home

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When the Wolf Comes Home

Nat Cassidy

4.33 AVERAGE

honnomushi13's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

edcripps's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

bconnolly27's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad medium-paced

bookishessie's review against another edition

5.0

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book scared the shit out of me. I was so fucking terrified and regretted my decision to read it. I wanted to stop, but I couldn’t! That’s one thing this genre does to me: I’m scared, but I can’t stop! But it got better, I guess… or maybe I just got used to the terror? Idk. I even found myself laughing at one point, not that anything was funny.

It is about fear, belief, and dads. Very odd combination, I know, but that’s truly what it is. And when it was time to rate it, I couldn’t think of anything but 5 stars.

Tropes and vibes:

* Horror
* Paranormal
* On the run
* Dark fairytale
* Severe daddy issues
* Suspense
* Third-person POV

Ratings:
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krispaska's review against another edition

5.0

challenging

werewolfhooligan's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional tense fast-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

ignoring my disappointment that this was NOT a werewolf book. meeting the book where it is. breathing in slowly, breathing out slowly, and behaving in a measured and rational way.

i enjoyed this book a lot. jess' character voice is sort of obnoxious at the very beginning, but she soon becomes too occupied by the plot (and i became so absorbed by it myself) that how annoying it is sort of fades into the background.

i mean, it almost lost me when the kid pulled fckin who framed roger rabbit characters out of a hotel television and they started killing people with bullets that had pointy teeth and turned them into mounds of viscera and then they escaped by floating gently off of the roof like balloons, it was touch and go there for a minute, compounded by the fact that for whatever reason the name of the movie was never spoken and it was just described in an obvious way instead, like the roger rabbit scene nearly broke my resolve,

but cassidy pulled it back; the book was good. great, even. and i totally thought well-adjusted things about my own father the entire time i was reading it.

ik i just made that fuss about the annoying character voice, but the writing style is truly spectacular. the gore? sublime. and there are moments of absolute poetry in here, and they're not even far between. there's one particular instance where a character's injuries are described as 'parentheticals' and that was Such a turn of phrase...

the exploration of themes in this book is so sincere and thoughtful that it really carried the story. and water is wet. but i mean it: i completely lost track of the parts of the narration that had me cautious and pessimistic at the outset because i was invested in the ideas enough to ignore

the fact that the concept of a military experiment resulted in a child who could change reality based on his whims, because really WHAT part of human physiology would you even experiment on to net that outcome?

like it really DID all come together in a way that i found, if not satisfying, then unsatisfying in a way that struck the right chord. like a natural dissatisfaction. a warm disappointment. like understanding. anyway