Wolfsong by TJ Klune | Book Review
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2020
- I decided to read another book by TJ Klune since I loved The House in the Cerulean Sea so much. Here are my thoughts on Wolfsong, the first book in the Green Creek series which is an adult paranormal mm romance. Let me know if you've read this one!
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I just listened to Wolfsong and this book emotionally wrecked me!!! The only way to describe this book is “Candy canes and pinecones and epic and awesome”
This series killed me. I cannot wait for Brothersong 🐺🐺❤️❤️
Also I’m super impressed you held the book up for us the entire time 🥺
2 more months so excited
Thank you for your review. I am ruined for all other books! Joe and Ox are my heart. Cried and laughed and cried and cried and cried. So great!
It’s such a good one!
I’m here for seeing you gush about this book it’s so cute 😍
I was into it lmao I just finished the second book (didn't love it as much but still was waaay invested despite the amount of angst), and the third is on its way.
This book was an emotional roller coaster for sure. A friend of mine had recommended this series to me, and I'm so glad they did! I couldn't agree with you more on your review!
“Book hangover,” absolutely agree! Third TJ Klune book for me, and I was so very invested in it. I really loved the camaraderie of the found family. Just freaking loved everything about this book.
I finished it and was like 🥰 so I had to order the second one and continue. I think I might follow your lead and take a short break so that I don’t have to wait as long for the forth book to come out.
I read this book a few years ago and I loved it so much, that I bought the audiobook and listened to it as well. I'm currently on the 3rd book of the series and am enjoying it immensely. Another fantasy series of his that I love is the Tales from Verania series which is much more hilarious and campy, with gay dragons, even gayer unicorns, and gayness all around.
Yet another series I loved is the Bear, Otter and the Kid Chronicles which, despite the silly name, is very heartfelt. This one isn't fantasy but it follows the lives of the titular characters and how they become part of each others' lives.
I’m currently reading Ravensong because I got so geared up for it after editing this video. It sounds like I need to jump on the Tales from Verania series lol it sounds like a freaking blast!
I’ve heard great things about Bear, Otter, and the Kid. It’s definitely on my radar now.
Oh my god, that series is insane. Whenever I get down, I just read the Tales of Verania and I'm laughing from the first page. Gary for life.
Great review!! I have owned the ebook for months but haven’t started yet because it got lost in the shuffle. You have definitely convinced me to bump it up on my tbr!
you are a ray of sunshine, thank you I really enjoyed the review and I love this book to pieces
Thank you! I'm excited to continue my journey through Klune's books as I get to them.
shame on me that i rushed through this books so quickly. definitely epic and awesome. swallowed first 3 in just a week. good story. good characters. Thanks to TJ for this.
Your reviews are the best on youtube. You make me so happy!
much love,
amy
Amy Pinkelman Aw!! Thank you! 😊 I’m happy you like my content. Have a fantastic Sunday!!
I think I am just going to have to link to this video any time I try and gush about this book and cannot form any coherent thoughts because I just loved so much about it! You summarized it so well and I agree with everything you had to say 😊
Honestly, it was so good! I had no idea that I would end up loving it as much as I did! I flew through it and then had to go back and try to parse out why I enjoyed it so much.
I’m reading 3 m/m romances to tell my mate which has the most amount of smut so I’m glad it’s not fade to black ahahahah! Honestly though, I’m really excited to pick this up now. Sounds like a beautiful story of growth and balance between relationship and plot ☺️☺️
I hope you like it! I liked that the romance never seemed to bog down the plot moving forward.
i love that you laugh with each little bit ahaha your enjoyment of this definitely has lead me to aDDING it to my tbr - i have house in the cerulean sea on kindle now, so i may just have to jump on an author taste test!
I hope you enjoy it!! The House in the Cerulean Sea is very sweet and is like a hug! Wolfsong is less so, but I loved it obviously haha
This is the second of your reviews I have watched, the first being The House In the Cerulean Sea and I found both so spot on to what I was thinking /feeling - subscribed to your channel ☺️ Cannot wait for Extraordinaries to be released...
Welcome!! I'm pumped to get my hands on the Extraordinaries as well. It'll be interesting to see how he does with a young adult book,. Although, The House in the Cerulean Sea has been viewed by some as a YA or even a middle grade novel.
I just finished Heartsong this week, and am suffering from a bit of a post TJ Klune slump. So many great characters in this series. I really can't wait to see what I pick up next of his. I know I will love it.
This is crazy lol I literally started reading this yesterday and you upload this 😂 I am almost done reading this. I love it so much!
Haha good timing then!! I’m glad you’re loving it! I started the second book now lol
I've read all 3 books and starting on the 4th. Love the series.
I love this book so much! I'm rereading it again this year.
I’m currently in the middle of the second book lol
its 6 am where i live and i just finished Wolfsong and im reading that the next book is about Gordos perspective and im so heartbroken cause im not prepared to leave Ox & Joe im so sad 😢
OK I just had to come back because I FUCKING LOVED THIS BOOK. I had no idea this book existed until I saw fanart on tumblr and IMMEDIATELY had to read it. TBH at first, I was sooooo hesitant at first bc of the age gap and I was like....WTF IS THIS??? But thank GOD there was just a friendship growing there and no interest in anything sexual until much later when they're older but the i agree with EVERYTHING you mentioned- story, characters, and the writing......everything was beautiful and it hurt and I finished ALL of the books so far and waiting for the fourth one in october!!
After I finished it, I saw your review on Goodreads and it gave me so much validation for my love of this book lol
The age gap was definitely a little uncomfy at first since we're following the older of the two and we already know they're going to get together. I'm so glad it didn't get gross.
I finished the second book since this, so I need to sit my ass down and film the review. I've been putting off Heartsong until I film it because I want no more new info until after. There are two short stories on his site/blog that come between the books if you're curious. I read Lovesong which follows a character during the first two books. Feralsong takes place between books 3 and 4. Don't know much about it because SPOILERS. I'm pumped to see how he wraps up the series!
Glad to see you enjoyed it as much as I did. Good review. I got the book is a distraction during Covid but sounded very therapeutic. As an adult child of an alcoholic I could relate to Ox and I can also relate to Joe, also as a gay man. The lack of self-confidence is often a trait of ACOA’s, or really for anybody growing up in a dysfunctional family. I loved it so much that I TJ Klune and he wrote back a long letter the next day what a great guy! Needless to say I ordered and next two books and I’ve ordered the fourth in the green creek series. I also got a new truck to me (2012 Toyota Tacoma) and got my first vanity plate “WLFSNG”. Great review and “it was candy canes and pine cones. It was epic and awesome”! Be well!
Thank you! I'm happy to hear you could connect so strongly with this story. That's really cool that TJ wrote you back and you sent him a message, telling him how much you loved this book. I've read the second book, and enjoyed that one as well. I hope you do too!
@@ConnorOBrien So Connor, Just finished Brothersong! So, so, so good. I think a film series would be so cool and keep running into people that remind me of the characters so much. Last weekend I was hiking and met a fellow hiker that in my mind and from the books reminded me of Gavin. So would love to help with cast screening if a movie was to come out. Hope you and your fiancé are well, healthy and happy! Best to you!
I'm starting to engage on reading more TJ Klune after finishing the THITCS, I just finished the Wolfsong today and I did enjoy somehow. I gave it a 3.99 stars on goodreads, it's just the age gap is disturbing and draggy for me- well yeah, I find it wierd.
Finally!!! *Hey Nook* I've just finished the Bear, Otter & The Kid series last year. And I can honestly say that Klune is definitely very good with character building, angst, angst & more angst. Haha! Alright, I'm ready for this series now, Connor. Thank you!!!
Nook says hi back! I just finished the second book, Ravensong, and woah it was even more angst-heavy than this one was lol I definitely plan to give BOATK a go sometime soon to see if I like it. I hope you enjoy this one when you get to it!
@@ConnorOBrien Do share about BOATK if you ever get into it! Hahah!! Thanks Connor!
I recommend The Bones Beneath My Skin by Tj Klune. It's a scifi mm romance.
I just added it to my wishlist for when I order books next! I like that he does so sci fi books as wee as contemporary and fantasy. It’s cool to mix it up.
I loved this book too when I read it earlier this year. I agree with your negatives, there aren't many, but I wish it had been slightly better organized. The characters were what really swept me away and made me ADORE this book.
Same! The characters really made this novel for me. They're great, and I just want them to be okay lol
I love this book!!! I love everything about it. The story, the characters, the plot. I wasn't sure I was gonna like it either because whenever I see or think about anything that has got to do with wolves, I think about Twilight and I hated and I still do hate that movie so much. I've never read the books and I don't want to. It ruined anything that's got to do with supernatural creatures for me. LOL
I love your wolf!!!!! I want one! What's his/her name?
This was the first TJ Klune book I've read (and only so far, but I want to read more). And I absolutely loved it. PNR normally isn't for me, but this book definitely made me reconsider my stance!
Yeah, I was the same way. I haven't loved any paranormal romance books, but maybe I was just checking out mediocre ones lol
I just finished the series and I’m really struggling with a book hangover.
Listen to lightning struck heart by TJ Klune on audiobook. It's one of my favorite of his.
I've heard the narrator is fantastic and does a lot of his books. I wish my library had his audiobooks. I'll probably end up purchasing a physical copy if I continue to really like his works.
I completely agree about getting booklash after reading this book. I am not a fast reader and I sat and read it in 24 hours. Literally. Skipped classes and cancelled meetings - like I could not put it down. After an hour of processing the book, I knew that I had to have this book series on my shelf and quickly flew to purchase the WHOLE series. I finished Ravensong in 24 hours as well and just started Heartsong. LITERALLY ALL THE FEELS.
On a side note, I like your synopsis of the age gap. I know a lot of reviewer have been very knit-picky about this detail to the point of trying to crucify Klune in disgust. However, they were friends. Although Joe may have been more aware of what their relationship would GROW INTO, there were still moral development and values between both the characters that are very realistic without being preachy. I just love the scene when Ox notices Joe and runs into the side of the house.... like his eyes were finally open! So good. Love this book so much. Totally obsessed and found a bunch of wonderful fanart! Thank you for the positive review.
Yay! I also planned on picking up more TJ Klune after I loved House in the Cerulean Sea so much! Are you planning on getting The Extraordinarins(sp)? by him at the end of July?
I hope you enjoy this one too! I have The Extraordinaries preordered. I like superheroes, so hopefully I love that book as well.
Hi! I just finished reading House in the Cerulean Sea, and I adored it!!! I also absolutely loved your review! I'm interested in reading more of TJ Klune's books, starting with Wolfsong. How many books are in the series? And what are they in order? Thanks so much!
I’m so happy you enjoyed House in the Cerulean Sea!! The Green Creek series is four novels: Wolfsong, Ravensong, Heartsong, and Brothersong in that order. There are a couple of short stories sprinkled in, but they’re not too important to the series and don’t add very much.
That's it I m going to read this
I loved this book so much. I'm now listening to reviews because I miss living in the book 😅😊
Good book. Still not even Tolstoi in War and Peace have chapters over 40 pages long...
I've read it and loved it. Highly recommend this series and the audiobooks are amazing as well! 😁
I think the forth book comes out later this year, so I want to be able to jump into that one quickly after its release!
@@ConnorOBrien super excited for brothersong(4th book) 😁
This was the 2nd series I read by TJ Klune. I had read Bear, Otter, and the Kid, and read its sequel. I liked the first, and the sequels I found to be better as TJ developed his writing skills. I had read a lot of shifter stories though, and I held off on buying this one because the description made it sound like another pure romance novel with a shifter setting, and TJ didn't seem like a shifter author to me. But I bought it when I ran out of things to read, started reading it, and absolutely got hooked by the 2nd page. I had never been so quickly pulled into a story before. And by the halfway mark, I realized it was one of the finest shifter stories I had ever read. It was an epic tale. The characters are great, and Ox's growth, and the person he turns into, is stunning. It'sx really his coming of age tale. There's comedy, romance, action, suspense, tears, angst... everything you could want in a book. It was this book that made me start looking at other ones from TJ. I wish they described them better in the online store. I wouldn't have waited so long to buy some of them. I thought "The Lightning Struck Heart" was a fairy tale. And yeah, it kinda is, but when you have a trash-talking diva gay unicorn and a perpetually-horny dragon, it's not your grandpa's fairy tale!
you speak right from my heart on all points...Sam and the gang are my happy place
I want to read this book in English.🙇 I read It in 2 days, and I finished the saga of Green Creek in a week.
I love this books, and the mini chapters.
This series is AMAZING!!!
I'm excited to read the last two books!
On my tbr
Manjot Singh I hope you enjoy it when you get around to it!!
Wolfsong was my first TJ Klune book. I read it in 2 days...then re-read it immediately after. I binged Ravensong and Heartsong as well and they were equally good. I got my boyfriend to start the series (he's on Heartsong now). After he read Wolfsong he gave me a box he painted and inside was a wolf statue exactly like the one described in the book! I think I have to keep him now lol. Tales from Verania is a great series by TJ and you absolutely have to listen to the audio book for The Lightning-Struck Heart, it's hysterical!
That so sweet about the wolf statue!!! I am currently binging these as well and still taking time to re-read parts. Totally drunk on this series.
I completed all four books. I kinda don’t like the last book but all most of its story is really great. This series is epic and awesome.
Well that’s a bummer. I need to read the third book next though, so at least that one is great!
Just finished it lol and kind of the first serious read I've done and I have to say wow. happy sad all the emotions in one. and to be fair it is kinda repetitive. But It's amazing 👏
I loved this book. It was candy cains pinecones epic and awesome!!! ❤❤❤❤
Glad to hear you liked it as much as I did! 😊
I need the price😢
Wow, hi. I just read Everything, Everything and watched your video on. So happy to have found your channel! Do you have a video or a list of your all-time favorites?
Hey! Welcome to the channel. I did not love the ending of Everything, Everything lmao I also have never done a all-time favorites video or list yet. I guess I should probably do that, but if you're looking for a recommendation in a specific area, let me know!
@@ConnorOBrien Sure. I'm a big fan of John Green (tfios and lfa are probably my favorite books of all time) because he is a fantastic storyteller while also, imo, opening our eyes to our surroundings and asking deep questions, if that makes sense. Got any recommendations?
I've read some similar books: All The Bright Places, 13 Reasons Why, Eleanor & Park, Darius the Great is Not Okay, Warcross. Some of my other recent favorites were the Inheritance Cycle and Haley Merlin Series (I think only available on Kindle Unlimited). Either books related to these or just your personal favorites, I'd be grateful.
Thank you so much for your videos! They look great!
Zachary Mankowitz hmm you may like Neal Shusterman’s books. Scythe or Unwind are gone ones to start off with. He has a lot of books and each one brings up a bigger moral question. Neal Shusterman is one of my favorites as well. If you’re looking for a more contemporary read from him, I enjoyed Challenger Deep which is about a boy who starts showing symptoms of being on the schizophrenia spectrum. The drawings were from when his son was hospitalized with symptoms.
I recently read Felix Ever After which is a young adult contemporary book that I really enjoyed. Some young adult fantasy that I felt had some similar vibes to Eragon would be The Summoner by Taran Matharu. It has dwarves and elves and familiars that give people magic. I thought the first book was good but the sequels are better.
@@ConnorOBrien Thank you so much!
Was this teen wolf fanfic that was adjusted and tweaked for publishing?
I wasn't a big teen wolf watcher. I think I watched maybe half of the first season. I'm fairly confident in saying this is not a teen wolf fanfic though.
If I'm remembering correctly, teen wolf is more general teen drama and worries about not exposing themselves, etc. Maybe more general angst for the whole cast, at least at the very beginning. This story is much more narrow and nuclear. There isn't a wide cast of teen characters, and the ones that are teens are forced to grow up very quickly given their circumstances.
I am on like the 400 th page of skyward i like it a lot its very different
So you did end up picking it up! I’m glad you’re enjoying it so far!
Have you read tj's book John and Jackie? You really need to read it. It will make you laugh and cry and just loose yourself for a couple of hours. Really should check it out. Its a short story and i believe it is only available as a Kindle. But is still well worth it. Best $4.00 i ever spent! It it was available in book form i would buy it. Congrats on your wedding to you and your husband.
This is only my second TJ Klune book that I have ever read. I've now read Ravensong as well (hopefully I'll film that review soon). John and Jackie sounds incredible! I know he said his shorter works would only be in ebook after the situation with his previous publisher. I'm shockingly slow at reading ebooks though, so I hope he considers physical copies, maybe as bind ups of two or three of the shorter works. Thank you!! Lol we've spent the first 4 months of married life in quarantine, so it's definitely been a unique start!
any other m/m book recommendations? Just finished this book and i loved it!
Captive prince
Haha read it
I think almost every TJ Klune book is m/m. I’ve read quite a few now and have enjoyed them. I recently picked up Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall. Not sure how it will pan out, but it was one on my radar. I wasn’t a big romance reader before this year, so I don’t have a deep well of books to recommend. Sorry!
Tj Klune is a great author if you want something similar please check out CARDENO C (MATES SERIES) she’s my favorite author.
I agree! I haven't read anything by Cardeno C, so I'll keep an eye out for the books.
This book made me cry so much, I wanted to read it again as soon as possible but scared of going through emotional roller coaster.
I didn't cry, but this book definitely is an emotional journey, with its ups and downs. I'm reading the second book currently!
I' m so happy you love It! I've read numerous times, i looove it. Each book is a little different, but so good. Wolfsong is a little repetitive, yes. How many times Ox says "daddy"? Ugh.
I recommend you the At first sight trilogy, It is sooo funny.
I'm dying to read The cerulean.. and The extrordinaries, wich i have preordered!
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I started the second book now and I think the repetitiveness is just a part of this series lol I guess it adds to the angst. I definitely plan to at least check out the first books in his other series now that people have recommended all of them! I think Klune could become one of my favorites. But YES The House in the Cerulean Sea is so sweet and pure.
Omg its “hella gay” hahaha I love this. Also yes yes yes and I love TJ Klune’s books. Please please read the Lightening Struck Heart series…OMG its amazing. It does not drag at much as Wolfdong…oops Song LOL 😂 and is very funny!
Can I read this series out of order?
No, the books should be read in order.
I haven't read it but I wish there was more MxM fantasy out there!
Yeah, I haven't read a whole lot of mm fantasy books. I think TJ Klune has another fantasy series that's very campy and silly which a lot of people seem to love. I'll probably pick that one up too at some point.
Well, if you're looking for m/m fantasy, then try out basically anything by Ariana Nash, Michele Notaro, or Sam Burns. TJ Klune is a personal favorite, and anything by him is amazing, but these authors also have merit.
2nd!!😃
I couldn't hold back tears when [spoiler] and [spoiler] died.
Currently reading Heartsong. Awesome. I liked Wolfsong a whole lot, Ravensong a lot and Heartsong is as un-put-downable as Wolfsong ....
I just filmed my review for Ravensong. I didn't want to know anything from Heartsong before recording it. I didn't love Ravensong as much, so I hope I feel the same as you about Heartsong!
Sold plot poorly written overly explained and annoyingly repetitive