Published by TOR Books Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, LGBT, LGBTQ, Paranormal, Romance
Format: ARC, eBook
“It was reverence. It was grace. It was beauty. I wondered if this meant I could finally breathe. Like I had found my place in this world I didn’t understand.”
This had my heart singing along with the wolves!
Another beautiful and solid book by T.J. Klune! Wolfsong is the first book in the Green Creek series and I am salivating/anticipating reading the next book!
I am not a big fantasy reader, but if T.J. Klune writes it, I am going to read it. He writes characters that I care about. I am invested in their stories and cheer when they triumph and cry when they suffer. He writes about longing so beautifully, about finding your family, being a part of something bigger than yourself, the deep ties of friendship and love. His books warm my heart, have me feeling all kinds of emotions and leave me wanting more.
In this book, Ox Matheson’s father left when he was twelve years old. He was not a kind man, and his cruel words left a mark and affected how Ox viewed himself. Then one day he met Joe, the youngest Bennett boy, on his walk home and life would never be the same for either of them.
The Bennetts are a family like no other. They have tight bonds, they are welcoming, they are accepting, they opened their hearts and their home to Ox, they are a pack, they are werewolves. Ox, well Ox is different. He is all “candy canes and pinecones and epic and awesome.”
There is so much heart and soul in this book. There is so much more to say about this book. I could gush about it for hours. I loved the friendships, the relationships, the angst, and the unique characters. I appreciated how the characters had many layers. I loved how Ox’s confidence grew.
Sometimes our lives can be changed by small things, and sometimes lives are changed by bigger things. I loved how everyone’s lives were changed by meeting, by loving, by accepting and by nurturing each other. Sometimes it takes others to show us the beauty we have inside ourselves. It took one man, Ox’s father to put him down, it took a pack to lift him up, so he could see that he was worthy, that he mattered, that he important.
This book is not all howling and singing, there is loss, there is triumph, there is grief, there is joy, there is happiness, there is tragedy, there is romance, and above all, there is the pack.
Thank you to Tor Publishing Group, Tor Books and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.