ashley_mrose530 's review for:

Heartsong by TJ Klune

4.5

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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This one was much more plot focused than the both of the previous books I think which I enjoyed, but because of that I think the character growth and relationship development might have suffered a little bit.
I want to start off by saying I loved the beginning and how he chose to start this book.

Because Klune writes with many time jumps in his stories, I didn't actually realize that we had started in the present rather than in the past and I know that was intentional. I thought we were getting a little back story of who Robbie was in the compound and what his life was like there before he met the Bennetts, but then I realized that wasn't the case and he was actually at the compound again. And I figured it out only a split second before Robbie was basically told by that the little boy.

I had a lot of fun with that twist and really enjoyed it.
And again, I really liked how much more plot focused this book was but it did struggle a little bit with the romantic relationship development.  I felt like it relied quite a bit on the past as well as the instant fated mates thing rather than developing a new relationship for them in the present. But in the end I did think they were cute together and I did find their chemistry eventually.
I do think it did a good job of redeveloping Robbie's connection to the entire pack though. I think that was more of the focus over the romantic relationship which was part of the plot a little bit more too.
Overall, I enjoyed this book more than the previous one and I'm very interested in seeing how the next one goes.