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A review by joshoonet
Wolfsong by TJ Klune
adventurous
emotional
medium-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
5.0
- MY HEART
- TJ Klune you have done it again
- The next volume only comes out in August (at least in the edition that fits the one i have now) and i am in pain
- I only read Cerulean Sea and Whispering Door before this, and... this is darker. And SMUTTIER. Also people say fuck. I like it!
- Klune is one of my favourite authors because he always includes healthy, but realistic! communication, especially between men. It's just so damn refreshing.
- Also a bunch of queer characters! Incredible! I have yet to find a trans character though, maybe in his next book?
- His book have been the only one to make me genuinely emotional in a long time
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abandonment, Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Death of parent, and Grief
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Torture, Murder, and Animal death
Minor: Ableism, Alcohol, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Rape
Ableism, Domestic Abuse, Alcohol: the protagonist's father is kind of a piece of shit, but he leaves pretty early on in the book. Nothing too graphic here.
Adult/Minor Relationship: the protagonist falls for his friend, who he's known since that friend was ten years old. This only happens when the friend is 17 and the protagonist is 23 years old; nothing graphic happens between them at this point.
Sexual Content: around page 442 there's a pretty damn smutty sex scene between the male main characters, apart from that only a mention here and there.
Death of Parent, Grief: the protagonist's mother dies by violence, and his father "in all but blood" as well. Grief is a major theme of the book. The protagonist's biological father dies as well, but there isn't really any grief tied to it.
Abandonment: a major theme in this book. The protagonist's father left pretty early on, and later his friend and partner leaves for an undetermined time as well; this is devastating for the protagonist.
All the bloody stuff: this book centers around werewolves, so there's a bunch of defending the territory and so on, also... one of the main characters was kidnapped and tortured as a child, which is mentioned quite a lot.