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Ravensong

TJ Klune

4.3 AVERAGE

liorehk's review

4.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-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

ehoughton's review against another edition

4.0

I don't think this book lived up to how amazing Wolfsong was (mostly because of how much I love Ox), but this book was great and it definitely picked up speed as it got further along. I liked getting the backstory of Gordo as a kid, plus his time with the Bennett boys when they left the pack behind. There were points when I thought the storyline started to get a little unrealistic, like with the wolf infection, some of the witches Gordo spoke to and the complexities of being an Omega. But I love that Mark and Gordo ended up becoming mates and I liked the allusion towards the next book being about the search for Robert Livingstone, Gordo's evil father.

goldensisyphus's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious 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

dailda's review against another edition

5.0

medium-paced

seraphjewel's review

2.0

I didn't find this one as engaging as the first. The first half of the book was a lot of back-and-forth in the timeline. I don't know if there was a way for Klune to write the backstory of Gordo and Mark without doing that, but it was still hard to get invested in either timeline. There was a lot of repetition in the sections, too. Like the past timeline would start the chapter with something, and the next time it cut to the past it would repeat the exact same starting lines.

Not only that, but I found it hard to be invested in Gordo and Mark as a couple. Readers didn't really get to see them fall in love like Joe and Ox. This love story was a lot more messy and fragmented, where in one section Gordo found Mark annoying and in the next he wanted to kiss the guy. Maybe if more time had been devoted to them, I might have been able to get behind their mutually possessive and toxic relationship. As it was, I didn't think they should get together.

I didn't care much for the villains, either. It was a little confusing, since it seemed to throw the problems at the reader pretty rapid-fire. Though that could've been me speed reading through those sections.

I still read the smut, though. I'm only human.

Not sure if I'll continue with the series. I do like Robbie and Kelly as characters, but I don't know if I care about the larger plot to bother.