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Wolfsong by TJ Klune

13 reviews

ruthiedr89's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, and Kidnapping

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Gun violence, Hate crime, Pedophilia, and Gaslighting

foreverinastory's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This was fantastic and now I hurt.

Rep: Bisexual male MC, MC's father is an alcoholic, achillean (gay coded) love interest with PTSD, asexual male side character, gay/achillean male side characters, Latine/x male side character

CWs: Graphic: Abandonment, alcohol consumption, blood, death, death of parents, grief, gun violence, injury/injury detail, mental illness (anxiety), murder, sexual content (one scene very graphic, several instances of sexual innuendo), violence, vomit. Moderate: body horror, child abuse/torture, kidnapping, alcoholism, emotional abuse (parents/child), suicidal thoughts. Minor: animal death. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal death

kharlan3's review against another edition

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

(m/m, werewolves, romance). I don't understand the hold these books have on me, but I cannot escape it. 399 pages in 28 hours in which I also like..worked. But these books seriously LIVE in my brain. IDK if it's good, but I know I like it. I think part of it is that I like immersive books and this world feels very lived in to me. Part of it is definitely being, mostly, a bubble of one during a global pandemic and the intense, extended platonic chosen family physicality that these books have. I read Wolfsong this time with my eyes, but last time I listened to Kirt Graves read it to me, and hearing the voice he gave to the books in my head this time definitely also contributed. The book isn't perfect- Klune uses "glassy" for pain and Ox's dad's "get shit" speech a bit too repetitively, and I still can't decide how I feel about the age gap. & the white Bennetts having "territory" that "belongs" to them for so many generations feels icky. But the found family, the pack (especially Rico and Jessie and Elizabeth), the cuddle piles, the nature, the lack of "all I want is to be a werewolf", and the setup for what I know is coming.... I really like this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Gun violence, and Torture

Minor: Animal death, Rape, and Alcohol