Reviews with content warning for Cursing - Brothersong

i don't have words 😭😭😭😭 (proceeds to vomit paragraphs of words)

What a beautiful end to a completely stunning series. These books swept me off my feet, and I'm going to be thinking about them for a long, long time to come. And rererereading.

Gavin my feral little monster. His character journey is so good, and he deserves so so so many hugs. I love him and seeing the love and home he's found makes me so happy 🥺 (the only missed opportunity here I think could have been explored is Gavin's gender identity/expression. The sparkly clothes, "don't call me dude," etc just felt like it was leading towards something. And maybe years down the road it would. anyways. trans/nb gavin will live in my head rent free forever)

AND CARTER YOU LOVELY BEAN 🥺🥺🥺 I loved getting inside his head, and I loved the deep dive into the brothers' relationships. It was such a perfect pov and relationship focus to wrap up the series.

Also I really love how self-aware this book is 😂 Everyone commenting on how literally everyone in this pack is queer. Multiple people calling out Bennetts on their absurd tendency to randomly fucking leave and have to have everyone else track them down and drag them home. Left me cackling 😂

Literally never going to recover from my love of Oxnard Matheson. This boy. This perfect boy. I would read a hundred books from his pov. I'm so proud of him. He's come so far, but he's still the little boy standing alone in the kitchen trying not to cry, wanting his name stitched on a work shirt, getting soap bubbles on his ear, walking home along that dirt road. damn werewolf jesus. I love him so freakin much 😭😭😭😭😭

Anyways. Read this series. I'm unwell forever.

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(m/m, werewolves). My feelings on this book are really mixed. I love Carter almost as much as I love Gavin, and the romance works for me (

the pacing is unusual, feeling very platonic and confused and then suddenly changing, but I don't mind that

). The second quarter scenes of

Gavin and Carter in the cabin

, and the third quarter scenes of

their homecoming

make me smile a lot. I like continuing to get to know the pack, and I like the way the pack's stories continue, especially Rico, Chris and Tanner, and Jessie. I saw other reviews of folks who don't like the first quarter, especially the time jumps, but those parts work for me as well. I like the brotherly bonding (on both sides).

The stuff with the book that Joe and Kelly give to Carter is great, and Carter's growing physical awareness of Gavin also worked well for me.

There are a few things I like less though.
1) maybe it's because I read/listened to the whole series (~1800 pages) in less than a week, less than 3 months since the first time I read them all (also in one week), but there are some turns of phrase that started to feel really repetitive: "breathed [them] in", "growled lowly/low in [their] throat", "only had eyes for [them]", "shifting/grinding of muscle and bone", "an aria of blue", describing smiles as "blinding" or "secret", describing pain as "glassy", and the repetition of the "wolves, ravens, hearts, brothers" motif. If I had the ebooks, I'd look up how many times these turns of phrase happen, but it feels like a LOT.
2) The consistent references to people or land or power that "belongs to us" or "what's ours" or people don't "get to" do or say things feels icky.
3) I want more Gavin! I want more of his history, more of his perspective, more of his dialog.
4) Stop trying to make Thomas Bennett happen! I like him as a mate who Elizabeth misses terribly, but he was around, in a present way, too much for me in this one.

The Thomas Bennett loved Richard Collins as more than friends thing also didn't work for me

5) The running "how will you know what to do with a dick" thing felt consistently really gender essentialist and icky to me. Also, does Carter not know about Google?

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