Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Wolfsong by TJ Klune

15 reviews

madisonbell_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death

negs's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Gore, Gaslighting, Murder, and Sexual content

Minor: Animal death

jupiterlee's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent, and Death

ravenk28's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

This book has me searching for words to describe how amazing it was. I was consumed by this book from the very beginning. From the way Ox was introduced to the way he worked through his hardships. I fell in love with every single character and felt every emotion portrayed by the TJ Klune, he truly is a wonderful story teller.  

I felt such a personal connection to Ox, to his struggles and his way of protecting his pack. Him and Joe were so meant to be in every way possible

This was an all round phenomenal book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Torture, and Child abuse

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, and Gore

joygarcialim's review

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

This book was bad bad bad and crap crap crap. The best part of it was before I started reading it.

The book was so disjointed in so many parts that I didn’t know what happened between one part of the writing and other parts. There was basically no flow. Ox and Joe are walking red flags, even outside of their inappropriate relationship, they are immature, whiney and possessive. The dialogues between characters were so similar that they all seemed to have the same personality- one-dimensional. The book came across as it was written by a 12 year old with a Twilight obsession, with no understanding of character-building or world-building. Maybe except for the sex scenes, I would have been completely convinced this was written by a kid. The writing was that juvenile. I don’t understand why every time Ox has an emotion, he has to write out a soliloquy about them. I’m not talking artistic, literary soliloquies- they were very whiney and he thinks he’s suffered the most or something. And it’s repeatedly used. By other characters too. There was a lot of repetitiveness. It was a long book not because a lot happened, but because there was a lot of repetition and Klune used a new line for every sentence he wrote in some parts.

The sex scenes were probably the best part of the writing tbh. They were incredibly detailed and less whiney than the other parts- all 15+ pages of it. It wasn’t great, I got second-hand embarrassment from it. It didn’t need to be that long.

TJ Klune, if this book is a reflection of your reality, please get professional help from a therapist and a psychiatrist.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Violence, Death of parent, Mental illness, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Abandonment, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Addiction

axel_p's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Vomit, Animal death, Blood, Gun violence, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Rape, Torture, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gore, Grief, Physical abuse, Abandonment, and Body horror

bialves's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Rape, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Addiction, Death, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Torture, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty

joshoonet's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

• MY HEART
• TJ Klune you have done it again
• The next volume only comes out in August (at least in the edition that fits the one i have now) and i am in pain
• I only read Cerulean Sea and Whispering Door before this, and... this is darker. And SMUTTIER. Also people say fuck. I like it!
• Klune is one of my favourite authors because he always includes healthy, but realistic! communication, especially between men. It's just so damn refreshing.
• Also a bunch of queer characters! Incredible! I have yet to find a trans character though, maybe in his next book? 
• His book have been the only one to make me genuinely emotional in a long time

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Torture, Murder, and Animal death

Minor: Ableism, Alcohol, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Rape

Ableism, Domestic Abuse, Alcohol:

Spoiler

the protagonist's father is kind of a piece of shit, but he leaves pretty early on in the book. Nothing too graphic here.

Adult/Minor Relationship:

Spoiler

the protagonist falls for his friend, who he's known since that friend was ten years old. This only happens when the friend is 17 and the protagonist is 23 years old; nothing graphic happens between them at this point.

Sexual Content:

Spoiler

around page 442 there's a pretty damn smutty sex scene between the male main characters, apart from that only a mention here and there.

Death of Parent, Grief:

Spoiler

the protagonist's mother dies by violence, and his father "in all but blood" as well. Grief is a major theme of the book. The protagonist's biological father dies as well, but there isn't really any grief tied to it.

Abandonment:

Spoiler

a major theme in this book. The protagonist's father left pretty early on, and later his friend and partner leaves for an undetermined time as well; this is devastating for the protagonist.

All the bloody stuff: this book centers around werewolves, so there's a bunch of defending the territory and so on, also...

Spoiler

one of the main characters was kidnapped and tortured as a child, which is mentioned quite a lot.

sabinehunter's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Grief, Sexual content, Torture, Cursing, Violence, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

darkmattersoybean's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

4.0

I really struggled with the age gap in the beginning of the book and the possessive nature of the relationships. I realise that TJ Klune tried to explain them away with the whole

Spoiler

werewolf dynamics

but it still made me a bit uncomfortable.

Looking past that, this book was very well written and the short, succinct style of writing was really pleasing to read. I probably will consider reading more books in the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, Death, Cursing, Child abuse, Body horror, Blood, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Torture and Adult/minor relationship