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A review by starfleeting
Wolfsong by TJ Klune
1.0
Sadly, I did not like this book. At all.
I'm deeply disappointed at how many one stars I've given out this year because they were mostly for books I was really hyped for. And this book was another one of those. I was sooo hyped when I saw the new printings of this series.
It has so many things I am into: werewolves (and gay ones, at that!), fated mates, some possessiveness and romance, found family dynamics. I am very sad to report every bit of this was Not What I Enjoy. None of it was written in a way I liked and was often left going "what the fuck???".
The age gap is too icky for me to wave off, the dynamic between the mates/main couple is incredibly toxic and disturbing (like yes I enjoy some possessiveness and co-dependency with romance because I enjoy it in my fiction but THIS was not it, not the mate describing how he wants to rip his other mate open and "crawl inside" jesus fucking christ). Even the whole fated mates part was written in a way that made me make faces while I read.
This was not at all what I wanted, and I continue to be saddened by this turn of events.
And then we get to the writing. It... was terrible, guys. There's no way I can mince words over this. It was awful. Repetitious af, non-descriptive to the point of the story having zero sense of setting, cringey dialogue that gave me secondhand embarrassment, and stylistic choices that were just unpleasant to read.
I know there are people that love this series, and I was honestly hoping to be one of them! I am glad people can enjoy this, but I cannot. It's just bad and was painful to read for me.
So yeah, this is a Nah from me and I can't recommend it.
P.S. - I am totally here for authors repurposing fanfiction as books. Like for real, get your bag. But man, I have a sneaking suspicion this started out as genderbent Bella and Jacob m/m fanfiction with the wolf dynamic made even more intense. It's written so much like a lot of those fics were back on FF.net, and it would explain so much if that was the case lmao.
I'm deeply disappointed at how many one stars I've given out this year because they were mostly for books I was really hyped for. And this book was another one of those. I was sooo hyped when I saw the new printings of this series.
It has so many things I am into: werewolves (and gay ones, at that!), fated mates, some possessiveness and romance, found family dynamics. I am very sad to report every bit of this was Not What I Enjoy. None of it was written in a way I liked and was often left going "what the fuck???".
The age gap is too icky for me to wave off, the dynamic between the mates/main couple is incredibly toxic and disturbing (like yes I enjoy some possessiveness and co-dependency with romance because I enjoy it in my fiction but THIS was not it, not the mate describing how he wants to rip his other mate open and "crawl inside" jesus fucking christ). Even the whole fated mates part was written in a way that made me make faces while I read.
This was not at all what I wanted, and I continue to be saddened by this turn of events.
And then we get to the writing. It... was terrible, guys. There's no way I can mince words over this. It was awful. Repetitious af, non-descriptive to the point of the story having zero sense of setting, cringey dialogue that gave me secondhand embarrassment, and stylistic choices that were just unpleasant to read.
I know there are people that love this series, and I was honestly hoping to be one of them! I am glad people can enjoy this, but I cannot. It's just bad and was painful to read for me.
So yeah, this is a Nah from me and I can't recommend it.
P.S. - I am totally here for authors repurposing fanfiction as books. Like for real, get your bag. But man, I have a sneaking suspicion this started out as genderbent Bella and Jacob m/m fanfiction with the wolf dynamic made even more intense. It's written so much like a lot of those fics were back on FF.net, and it would explain so much if that was the case lmao.