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A review by theshiftyshadow
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
5.0
I really loved this book. I didn't want to put it down, I wanted to read it all in one go, but at the same time I wanted to read it a little piece at a time to make it last as long as possible. In the end I read it in 3 large chunks, and when I was finished it seemed like there had been just the right amount of book for me. If that makes sense?
I enjoyed the June/Finn/Toby stuff, but I was more drawn to Greta than any of the other characters. I kind of had it figured out, what it was that was going on with her, and as it was through June that I was seeing Greta I couldn't quite figure out why it wasn't as obvious to June? She was the one pointing out all these problems Greta was having, the drinking, how tired and sad she was, being less than her brilliant self during rehearsals etc. etc. It kind of made June seem either extremely dumb, or extremely selfish. But then I guess she was only 14, and maybe she was being selfish, seeing things from her point of view only. It also seemed like Greta was the one that fixed it in the end. Sort of said to herself that they couldn't go back and that they needed to form a new relationship, and she seemed to be the one to do it all? I don't know.
The course of the June/Finn/Toby story was inevitable, but I still enjoyed the way it played out and how they both managed to do that one massive thing for each other without actually really meaning to. There were lots of quite sad bits in this story, but the one bit that I kept focusing on was how it kept mentioning Toby's "busy hands" and all the different things he did with them, and then the note from Finn in his terrible hand writing saying his hands were no good anymore. I really thought they were going to make a big deal of that later as Toby got worse, but they didn't. It still stood out to me though.
I feel I should point out I came into this book off the back of Madame Bovary, which is just an awful book. It's painfully boring and horrible. So, maybe reading the instruction manual for the washing machine would have seemed like literary genius after that, but no, I'm pretty sure this book is as great as I think it is.
I enjoyed the June/Finn/Toby stuff, but I was more drawn to Greta than any of the other characters. I kind of had it figured out, what it was that was going on with her, and as it was through June that I was seeing Greta I couldn't quite figure out why it wasn't as obvious to June? She was the one pointing out all these problems Greta was having, the drinking, how tired and sad she was, being less than her brilliant self during rehearsals etc. etc. It kind of made June seem either extremely dumb, or extremely selfish. But then I guess she was only 14, and maybe she was being selfish, seeing things from her point of view only.
The course of the June/Finn/Toby story was inevitable, but I still enjoyed the way it played out and how they both managed to do that one massive thing for each other without actually really meaning to. There were lots of quite sad bits in this story, but the one bit that I kept focusing on was how it kept mentioning Toby's "busy hands" and all the different things he did with them, and then the note from Finn in his terrible hand writing saying his hands were no good anymore. I really thought they were going to make a big deal of that later as Toby got worse, but they didn't. It still stood out to me though.
I feel I should point out I came into this book off the back of Madame Bovary, which is just an awful book. It's painfully boring and horrible. So, maybe reading the instruction manual for the washing machine would have seemed like literary genius after that, but no, I'm pretty sure this book is as great as I think it is.