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Sag den Wölfen, ich bin zu Hause by Carol Rifka Brunt

5 reviews

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

oh...this book truly is wonderful; its so sad yet so beautiful and full of hope. its a tragedy through and through - of everyone losing finn, of june losing toby - but its full of such love that it doesnt feel as heartbreaking as it could. and the love really is so rich in this book. june loves finn - i do have my issues with that, but i understand why she feels what she feels - and finn and toby loved each other and danni loved her brother and she loves her children and june loves greta and finn loved everyone and love...its everywhere in this book, for both the good and the bad. its the fuel for this book and the characters and it makes this book what it is. and thats why it hurts so much because love only does so much, only goes so far and then when you can no longer love that person it goes - where? you have to keep it inside yourself because the love you have one person is for them; you cant put it on someone else. so you keep it inside and you hold it close the way you held the person you loved close. and like...god. i could wax poetic about this book forever. its just so good. and the title...it hurts because at first to me it meant that june could tell the wolves about finn, she could tell that hes home but by the end of the book is dead, the wolves are dead, and now the wolves can tell finn that june is home. like...god. pain.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Incest, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Homophobia, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Animal death

relin's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

It was interesting enough to finish, but I don't think this book was for me. I struggled with some of the ways that the relationships and characters were shown especially. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Classism, Fatphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Deportation, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, Drug use, Confinement, Alcohol, and Abandonment

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

3.0

June's crush on her gay uncle, and later his boyfriend, was not handled super well. Every adult in her life pretended to not see it or treated it in a very "oh ho ho she'll grow out of it" way. This inappropriate crush on adult figures is a way neglected children reach out for attention. As June and her sister are left to their own devices during tax season you can really see where the susceptibility to substance abuse (alcohol and cigarettes) and need for adult attention comes from. This acceptance/ignorance of the crush gives the story an incest or 'attraction to minors' feel when it was June primarily reaching out for romantic attention and the adults around her redirecting her but not outright rejecting her.

Spoiler

There is a scene where she kisses an adult on the mouth or fantasizes about doing so.  June pretends Toby is her lover when she takes him from the hospital via taxi to her home, where he dies.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Homophobia, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Gaslighting

Minor: Pedophilia, Racism, Ableism, Hate crime, Incest, and Adult/minor relationship

About 88% through the book it is mentioned that 'the wolves in the woods' were several feral dogs that ended up being shot. It was an unnecessary detail.

atamano's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Homophobia, Grief, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Body shaming, Alcohol, Drug use, and Medical content

cdiddy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

Moderate: Medical content, Homophobia, Bullying, Death, Grief, and Terminal illness

Minor: Violence