as a result never invested in the main couple and investing in the main couple really is 90% of the point of this book Once the Bennett's show up everything gets more interesting. The family is close and I loved them all. Especially the twins and of course, Joe. He was just too cute. The friendship between him and Ox was so damn adorable.

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 I was able to appreciate Gordo’s character much more this second time around. The way he is so fiercely protective of Ox, the way he helped him since the very beginning, and has always been there to remind him of his value and that he was loved was pure and heartwarming. I think I will enjoy the second book even more too now that I have a new appreciation for Gordo and his importance in Ox’s life, so I’m excited to reread Ravensong next. Yes, I’m seventeen years old, but I knew the day I met you that I would do anything for you. I would do anything to make you happy because no one had ever smelled like you did. It was candy canes and pinecones. It was epic and awesome. And it was home. You smelled like my home, Ox. I’d forgotten what that was like, okay? I’d forgotten that because he took it away from me and I couldn’t find it again until I found you. So don’t you sit there and say I’m only seventeen. My father gave Mom his wolf when he was seventeen. It’s no a matter of age, Ox. It’s when you know.”

Customer reviews

No me esperaba conectar tanto con el libro, pero de verdad os digo que el estilo del autor es simplemente increíble. Sabe contar muy bien todo y lo plasma con una maestría envidiable. Lo único negativo que encontraría es que al tener tantos personajes –que además entre ellos están conectado al ser manada– a veces es complicado seguir las conversaciones con tantas intervenciones, pero en todo lo demás funciona a la perfección como una máquina hiper mega engrasada. Joe, if I hadn’t gotten left behind, I wouldn’t have you, so you need to focus, okay? Because I can’t have anything happen to you. I need you here with me, Joe, and I don’t care if you’re a boy or a wolf. Stuff like that don’t matter to me. You’re my friend, and I can’t lose that. I will never regret you. Ever.”

there are times when all i can think of is marking you so that everyone knows who you belong to. to carve my name into your skin so you can never forget me...i have to protect what’s mine.” Like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket' – V. E. Schwab, author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue You confuse me. You aggravate me. You’re amazing and beautiful, and sometimes, I want to put my teeth in you just to watch you bleed. I want to know what you taste like. I want to leave my marks on your skin. I want to cover you until all you smell like is me. I don’t want anyone to touch you ever again. I want you. Every part of you.” Short, concise paragraphs that are simple in nature but tell a story of great complexity, beauty, and depth. 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. 😭

He said,"There was never anyone else the entire time I was gone.There was never anyone else for me.Because even if you couldn't hear me when I called for you,the howl in my heart was always meant for you." 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. 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 was six when my daddy bought me my own set of tools. Not kids’ stuff. No bright colors and plastic. All cold and metal and real.Otra cosa que me ha encantado es la ambientación. Me recordaba mucho a los libros de antes, tipo Crepúsculo, de esos pueblecitos perdidos donde nunca pasa nada y tienen ese encanto otoñal/invernal constante que te envuelve como una mantita caliente. De hecho, ahora que lo menciono, no solo me recordó a los libros de Meyer por la ambientación, sino por cómo suceden las cosas. Tiene ese sentimiento de nostalgia de los libros de romance paranormal de hace una década, algo que me ha hecho extremadamente feliz. Siento que no tiene pretensiones, que cuenta la historia que tiene que contar sin importar nada más. Se agradece. I love their family, Bennetts will always have a part of my heart. Joe, Gordo, Chris, Tanner, Rico too, but they are basically Bennetts now. I can't wait to read the rest of the series to experience more moments like that with them. With all that I had, I growled, “Gordo. I said stop.” It rolled out of me like a storm through a valley, dark and electric. Gordo stopped. The wolves around me whimpered and lowered their eyes. My rating is like this, mainly due to the age difference, because I can't imagine having the opportunity to write such a good series and mess it up with something like that. It’s just my opinion though. If not that, I would probably rate higher, five star rating higher.

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. First of all, I'm a total T.J. Klune fan-girl, so when I saw that he was writing a werewolves book, I just about died. I know what you all want to know: does this book deliver? The answer is YES! Do you also want to know more about the story, the really relevant things, not just a plot summary? If the answer is YES, then read on! What I truly loved about this book was that, yes, it was a shifter story, but TJ didn't quite adhere to the typical werewolf lore ' rules' found in all of the other shifter stories that I've read. It's about loss and finding out who you truly are, and where you belong. It's about Ox and Joe, two of the most wonderfull characters ever !! Yes, there were metric tons of angst and tears in this story, but there was so much love, so much connection between the characters that it all felt like a continual lightning strike to the heart. ( See what I did there?) ;- )

At 12, Ox's drunken father leaves for good, telling his son that he's " dumb as an ox" and that " people will give you shit all your life." Ox never feels like he fits in and that he isn't worth much at all. I slid open the closet door. One side was mostly empty. Things were left, though. Little pieces of a life no longer lived. Me arrancó lágrimas de amor y de desgarro y me hizo ver un tipo de historia de amor completamente diferente a lo que se acostumbra a ver. This is a story of love and found family, of heartbreak and resiliency and it was AMAZING. It’s about finding your worth, your place in the world, and loving yourself. 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.”