mcipher 's review for:

Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

4.0

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I really enjoyed this - it has this haunting sad quality to it, but also a kind of determination of spirit, perseverance in the face of really crappy stuff, and a sweetness, too - some of the things that Finn says about "the best people" or about feeling okay about death because you have always lived exactly the life you wanted are so very lovely. I'm not normally one for novels about teenagers or coming of age stories, but I think this managed to bridge that and be a book that handled the coming of age stuff really well while not beating me over the head with it (like so many books tend to do). I got swept up in the story and the characters and I was really sad to finish it last night and not be part of it anymore.