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A review by kelliexdeath
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
4.0
I picked this book up because a friend mentioned that she recently read and liked it, and I liked the cover art. I didn’t know anything about it when I bought it, but I guess after reading it I would describe it as historical fiction, because the main plot is about how society was treating the subject of AIDS in the 1980s. It’s about a 14 year-old girl’s connection to AIDS when her uncle dies from it, and how differently she and her family react.
I enjoyed the book in that I read it in a few sittings, but sometimes I couldn’t get in to the main character, June. At times she seemed like an innocent early-teen because she had been in love with her uncle, and she’s an outcast that talks to herself in the woods and has an obsession with medieval times. Then there’s moments where she’s drinking and smoking and taking trips downtown by herself or with a stranger, essentially, and I couldn’t make up my mind about her.
I liked how art and music were described throughout the book, and that might have been what kept me reading because it was pretty. I’d definitely read something else by Brunt.
I enjoyed the book in that I read it in a few sittings, but sometimes I couldn’t get in to the main character, June. At times she seemed like an innocent early-teen because she had been in love with her uncle, and she’s an outcast that talks to herself in the woods and has an obsession with medieval times. Then there’s moments where she’s drinking and smoking and taking trips downtown by herself or with a stranger, essentially, and I couldn’t make up my mind about her.
I liked how art and music were described throughout the book, and that might have been what kept me reading because it was pretty. I’d definitely read something else by Brunt.