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A review by bmwood614
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
This book took on complex topics and an interesting setting, but did not deliver. The author writes really nicely and I enjoyed her writing style, but the book didn’t go anywhere. Characters were not well developed and no plot. I would fall asleep for an hour or two and not even notice I missed huge chunks of the story because it was the same thing the whole time.
Complex feelings of first love, but make it weird. I get and would expect a well-executed protagonist being an outcast 14yo girl to come with some cringe, but this was beyond. Drawing parallels between a girl who has a crush on her uncle and a gay relationship kind of undermines the whole point of representing the gay community in a particularly hostile and volatile period in history.
It’s not particularly weird for a little girl to have a sort of a crush on her uncle, but the fact that she doesn’t grow out of it and then it continues to be validated… she could have just come to the realization on her journey that loving someone and being connected to someone does not mean romantic love, but it’s normal to confuse those feelings when you’re young.
This story has so much potential to be beautiful and heart wrenching coming of age/family drama, but instead it’s boring, goes nowhere, develops no one, and sprinkles in some cringe implications.
Complex feelings of first love, but make it weird. I get and would expect a well-executed protagonist being an outcast 14yo girl to come with some cringe, but this was beyond. Drawing parallels between a girl who has a crush on her uncle and a gay relationship kind of undermines the whole point of representing the gay community in a particularly hostile and volatile period in history.
It’s not particularly weird for a little girl to have a sort of a crush on her uncle, but the fact that she doesn’t grow out of it and then it continues to be validated… she could have just come to the realization on her journey that loving someone and being connected to someone does not mean romantic love, but it’s normal to confuse those feelings when you’re young.
This story has so much potential to be beautiful and heart wrenching coming of age/family drama, but instead it’s boring, goes nowhere, develops no one, and sprinkles in some cringe implications.