As I said, I've never read anything by T.J. Klune before, so I'm not sure if this book is an example of his general writing style or just his writing style for this book. Either way... At 10 years old, Joe had been kidnapped and broken by a monster. He'd withdrawn from the world and hadn't spoken a single word for over a year. Until he meets a 16 y.o. boy who immediately becomes his entire world. I also loved T.J.'s secondary characters... and there are a LOT of them. In fact, I had a hard time remembering who was who in the beginning. All of those names... it all jumbled together! By the end I had it sorted out, but I was lost for little pieces at the beginning. However, the characters that he does write are very, very strong. They all felt well-rounded, and I have high hopes that a number of them will be getting their own stories in this series in the future. i can't do justice to this story or the way it was written, honestly. this book spans a nearly 10 year period and is told exclusively through Ox's point of view. his relationships both familial and romantic are so full of heart and so damn real that you often forget you're reading a shifter/paranormal book. there's violence and drama too but this book shines so bright in its depiction of relationships. Basically, all of T.J. Klune's fans will love this book. It was fabulous and well-written, just like we've all come to expect from T.J., with the added bonus of some sexy-times and some light brushes of humor. I think shifter book fans, and those who have never tried one, will eat this one up, and I know that this series had some AWESOME things in store for us.

Ox Matheson was twelve when his father taught him a lesson: Ox wasn't worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left. i swear i thought i was gonna love ox more than joe (idek how that’s possible, bc the way i love both of these idiots 🥺 i do love joe a lil more though lol) but i didn’t?? and i was so surprised fs. ox made some really bad decisions (even near the end lmao that i wanna forget about) BUT I LOVED THEM TOGETHER SM OMG. they’re so perfect for each other eurgh. 😭 Moving to the story. The book is from Ox’s pov, which I don’t usually like, as I prefer if there’s a dual pov, but it surprisingly didn’t bother me here. The action takes place over a long period of time, because we get to know the main characters from childhood to adulthood, so the plot is complex and a lot happens in the book. I actually liked it, we saw them grow up and become more mature with their decisions. Without giving away much, let me just say that I couldn't stop reading and put this book down, because the story captivated me from the very beginning. So Joe gave Ox his stone wolf and he took him to meet his family. A weird family who lived at the house at the end of the lane. And like most of the families, the Bennetts had their own secrets. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, Under the Whispering Door and In the Lives of Puppets, Wolfsong is a story of love, loyalty, and family.Normalmente, cuando un libro tiene tantísimo hype como lo tiene este, te esperas cosas que quizá se cumplan... o no. En este caso, La canción del lobo ha sido, desde la primera hasta la última palabra, toda una experiencia para mi corazoncito. Qué pasada. also the INTENSE character development of the two main men in this book is so gradual and yet so perfect. i love seeing confidence being built after traumatic experiences and this book does such a realistic job at exploring that. There’s a lot you don’t … know. About me. Things were … hard. For a while. Sometimes, they still are. But Ox, he just … I have nightmares. About bad men. About monsters. And he makes them go away.” I tried to swallow past the lump in my throat.

I loved it. It is like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket. Simply perfect." — V.E. Schwab, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue There is so much to enjoy in Under the Whispering Door, but what I cherish the most is its compassion for the little things—a touch, a glance, a precious piece of dialogue—healing me, telling me that for all the strangenesses I hold, I am valued, valid—and maybe even worthy of love.” — Ryka Aoki author of Light from Uncommon StarsIn the end, I probably needed this reminder : an abusive relationship is not always something that you can reject instantly because it doesn't stink of evilness and wrongness - even though parts of you know - but looks so much like love and tenderness and appeals to everything in us that screams please need me. Over the past years, I've read so many books that pulled these strings and I tore them apart, so much that I trusted myself enough to never fall into such trap again. Oxnard Matheson was twelve when his father taught him a lesson: Ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Then his father left. I often struggle with romance books where there is a lot of telling about the connection between two MCs but no showing. SHOW ME THE LOOOOVE. I love an EPIC romance, and so many authors give me a friends-with-benefits vibe. That is NOT a problem in this book. Ox and Joe have a romance for the ages, and not because of some silly shifter-book "insta-love" mates thing, which I see all the time. We really get to see Ox and Joe grow and change together, overcoming insurmountable obstacles, and getting stronger and more complex as a couple.

And I’ve been waiting,” Joe said. “For him to look at me like I looked at him. And he finally did. He finally did. And I’m going to do everything I can to make sure it stays like that. Because I want him for always.” good casual representation I LOVE how everyone is queer and all the queer relationships we get and how normal and chill it is. ownvoices representation Vivimos todo desde el punto de vista del personaje principal, Ox, que descubrirá un mundo que pensaba desconocido que le atrapará en una serie de sucesos inesperados en los cuales le acompañaremos. La construcción de Ox es brutal: le conocemos desde sus primeros años de vida, adolescencia y adultez. Llegas a mitad del libro conociendo exactamente cómo es él, cómo va a responder, qué es lo que siente en cada momento... Increíble. Eso es algo que el autor también hace con el resto de personajes, incluso los secundarios, los cuales sientes conocer a la perfección

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Like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket' - V. E. Schwab, author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket' – V. E. Schwab, author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Beautiful, poetic, unbelievably compelling. ALL the stars." — Juliette Cross, author of the Stay a Spell series i loved how protective both joe and ox are of each other. the way ox thought he wasn’t enough for literally ANYONE but then joe spoke fiercely for him, saying “don’t speak like that. never speak like that” 🥺😩 those are the scenes that hit me so hard. i love joe so much. 😭💘 He told me that. He said I was just a dumb ol’ Ox who was gonna get shit all my life. But he was wrong.”

Once I started this I couldn't put it down. It, like so many of T.J.'s books, grabbed me and wouldn't let me go. I was completely useless to my family while reading this and annoyed them greatly as they did me when they tried to interrupt my reading. LOL Ox had layers, you see, and depth. His story may have started being simple, but it gradually became more complicated. He may have been human, but he was also more. Much more. The prose reads like a simple, placid little pond and then you jump in and realize it's MILES DEEP. So to conclude this terrible non-review, FIVE BAJILLION STARS." — Emma Scott I’m bigger than most,” I said like it meant something. And I was. People were scared of me, though I didn’t want them to be. I was big. Like my daddy. He was a big man with a sloping gut, thanks to the booze.The characters were not perfect but they were born that way. Epic and awesome in their own way. Little shining stars in this infinite universe of Klune.