Wolfsong is a MUST READ. I had no idea what was walking into, and no expectations, when I picked this one up, other than the giveaway in the title that Werewolves were going to be a feature. Sometimes going into a book blind is the way forward.

I already know I am going to be picking up the next book. It’s been just over a month since I finished Wolfsong and still I keep thinking about it. I’ve tried picking up the physical copy twice and both times the shop had sold out. That’s how wanted and how good this book is.

Wolfsong is very different from Klune’s previous novels, it is very emotionally honest and sexually explicit. It was raw and it was heartbreaking. Pack mentality is explored through found family and the story telling is written in a guiding way. It is a slow burner but it really pays off.

It has been compared to Twilight and whilst I can see similar themes, this is a much more deeper delve. Twilight actually gets a mention… it made me laugh.

Overall I loved this one and I really recommend this to anyone who likes a bit of magic and world building. Can’t wait to see what’s next!

“You don’t get to decide what you’re worth because you obviously don’t know. You don’t get to decide that anymore because you have no fucking idea that you’re worth everything.“


This book was not what I was expecting at all … I absolutely looooved it!

Unreadable. It seems to be written in one line sentences, it drove me absolutley nuts and i gave up in the end.

Wolfsong by TJ Klune

Ox was 12 when his father taught him a lesson; ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left.
Ox was 16 when the energetic Bennett family moved in next door, harbouring a secret that would change his life forever…the family are shapeshifters.
Ox is drawn to the their magic and loyalty, particularly Joe, the youngest. Joe is charming, handsome but haunted by scars he cannot heal.
Ox was 23 when murder came to town and tore a hole in his heart. Violence flared, tragedy splits the pack and Joe leaves town.
3 years later the boy returns, except now he’s a man - and Ox can no longer ignore the song that howls between them.

Anyone else find it so much harder to write a review for a book you loved? This is definitely the case with Wolfsong!
It took me a few chapters to get into the style of writing but after that I was hooked and part of the pack (pack pack pack) and despite it being a big chunky boi of a book, I flew through it!
You read Ox’s point of view, see everything through his eyes as he narrates his story.
This story is action packed, emotional and exciting and features some amazingly, fantastical story telling.
It has great queer representation and a slow burn, growing romance.
Imagine Twilight without the sparkly vampires, add in a tattooed male witch and its full of drama (it even mentions Twilight a few times, showing its not afraid to throw in some humour!)
Wolfsong is truly an amazing roller coaster of a read and I cannot wait for book 2.
Wolfsong is out now and I highly recommend it for lovers of fantasy.

I enjoyed this book, it was easy to read and held my attention. I will be reading more from this author :)

It’s gay werewolves. Do I need to add any more information to warrant the 5 stars?

No but seriously. T J Klune doesn’t miss.
I’ve read Under The Whispering Door & House in the Cerulean Sea from this author and both were 5 stars, so I couldn’t wait to jump into this book.

I always mention this in reviews (when warranted), but an author who makes you love the side characters as much as the main characters is a genius. And T J Klune is a genius.
Ox’s father left him and his mother when he was young, and he comes across as a shy and slightly awkward boy. He ends up working at a mechanics shop & this is what I’m talking about when I mention side characters. You come to love his little group that he forms, they’re not just thrown in the story for plot development. I could actually read a solo story about each and every one of them, and it just so happens that they’re the first group of people who make Ox feel… normal? Not alone.
That’s until we meet Joe…. Ahh Joe. The relationship with Joe wasn’t rushed, didn’t feel forced, didn’t feel unnatural… it felt perfect. It started off with them becoming friends, then slowly becoming more than that. Joe makes Ox realise what he’s worth, and the whole build up to that was written beautifully.

I highly highly recommend this book and will continue reading the rest of the series, plus anything else this author writes.

Thankyou so much to Pan Macmillan for the opportunity to read this E-arc in exchange for an honest review.

Okay, the thing is - I can't really be mad about the things I didn't like in Wolfsong because I knew/suspected I wouldn't like the things I didn't ended up liking. So, it’s really my fault.

Why pick up a book you knew you wouldn't like you may ask? Well. The thing is, that I read »The House in the Cerulean Sea« by T. J. Klune and liked it a lot and I know, totally different vibes than Wolfsong, which I knew when I picked it up. But so many people I follow online and whose reviews I trust love Wolfsong, so I thought I probably should give it a chance, especially because I love reading about werwolves, they're my favorite mythical creatures at the moment. I had really hoped Wolfsong would fill the void that the Big Bad Wolf series by Charlie Adhara left in my heart.

But it didn't.

I think my main problem wasn't even necessarily the age gap, even though that was very questionable.


… honestly, I think my problem is the age gap after all. I was typing multiple paragraphs, deleted them, wrote them again and I always came back to the age gap that made me uncomfortable. That seven year age gap was… a choice. That I didn't love. Especially because the smut was absolutely not for me, it me so uncomfortable reading it. (And not because its M/M, I sometimes feel uncomfortable reading straight smut too, it was the way it was written, it was just not for me.)

But even apart from that the book just wasn't doing it for me.
Did I find the wolves interesting? Sure. But did I love the pack dynamic? Nah. It was just too much for me. The book felt super long because the story is told over nearly a decade I think and at one point I was really sick of reading the word Alpha because it was everything the characters talked about. I was so annoyed by the whole alpha this alpha that thing it just wasn't for me.

Like, it wasn't a bad book. And there were some moments I really enjoyed the story but then something happened that I didn't like or just nothing was happening. It just wasn't a book for me but I do get why so many people like it because T. J. Klune is great at writing characters you root and care for and found family. There were just some aspects to this found family that were too weird for me.

I also wish we would have learned more about the world. We know there are wolves and packs and some kind of wolf politics and also witches but not much else. The only thing that is said again and again is that there's a lot more out there that Ox doesn't know about - which felt like teasing the reader. Or lazy world building, I don't know. I was just really frustrated that we only got to see so little of the magical world.

So, overall. Just not my book. Am I glad I finally read it? Yup. Would I recommend it? Not sure. If you know what you're getting into, sure. If you think the age gap sounds suspicious - then don't.

"Choices. The choices we make shape what we’ll become. "

The story follows Ox who grew up in Greencreek. He has his mum, his boss and colleagues in his life but he is a loner. It changes when a family moves in to his neighbor. He discovers magic and werewolves, and starts to get involved in something he's never imagined to have.

This story is heartwarming but also very sad. It made me emotional a lot.
T.J. Klune is one of my favourite authors. I love that he always creates unique and extremely lovable characters. What's more, his story evokes many emotions and it amazes me how it reminds me what love is. I admire the interactions between each character, how they build trust and help reforming confidence for Ox puts a smile on my face every time.

There are some explicit contents. I'm generally not a fan of steamy scenes, so it was a bit too much for me💫

I enjoyed this book a lot and looking forward to reading the next book of this series!

so i requested this book as it thought i would love it and i dont know if it was that i wasnt in the right mind set or something but i just couldnt get in to it.

i did try and and try and DNF half way through

i will try this book again at some point but for now it 3 stars as it had legs just not enough to hold my interest

Wolfsong is the start of the Green Creek series, first in a four part, which were published a while ago and are now being printed again in these gorgeous editions 😍

I absolutely loved The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door, so when I was accepted for the arc I was so excited, though apprehensive that being about werewolves I may not be able to suspend my belief enough to actually enjoy it. I couldn't have been more wrong! This may be my favourite book of the year and it's about gay werewolves!

Klune is the king of happy fantasy, ones filled with joy and hope or to quote directly from the man himself "candy canes and pinecones and epic and awesome"! Wolfsong introduces us to Ox, who lives with his mother in Green Creek and when his father leaves them he decides to work as a car mechanic with Gordo and his team. They embrace him as an equal, though he's a teenager, and recognise that he wants to do well by his mum, despite the low opinion people often have of him. Some consider him slow, just a big ox of a boy, but there is something special about Ox, something that helps to transform a ten year old traumatized boy called Joe. Joe's family embrace him too and he discovers who they really are and what he can become...

I just loved this book! Quite a chunk but so worth it and though I was reading several books at once, it was this that I wanted to come back to, this that I loved the most. It won't be for everyone, but if you love a joyful fantasy, filled with underdog characters, wolves and LGBTQ representation then this is the book for you!

Content warning: smut near the end!

I truly struggled to get through this book and almost dnf'ed it at around 30%.
But I finished it and kinda liked it too.

Say hello to my new favorite TJ Klune series (and a new favorite of all time). I don't even have words for how hard I fell for this book - TJ Klune really said: I'll give you a story that will rip your heart out and put it back together. You will suffer...but you will be happy to do it because of the shits and giggles. And man, did I eat it up.
While I feel like everyone should go blindly into this book (really, do you need to know more than werewolves, a boy running with wolves, found family and tough dudes being emotionally available?), I can tell you that if you like: found families, werewolves, witches, paranormal romance, incredible character development and books that break your heart on one page that you're sobbing your heart out but then have you peeing yourself from laughter just two pages later, then this book will be the read you won't soon forget.
Whether this will be your first TJ Klune read or not, I can guarantee you that you will find at least one new favorite character - whether it's the quiet, heartstrong human Ox or the effing Bennett pack that, you are in for a world of comfort.

I really don't want to write a long rant review so here are just some of my thoughts on why this book didn't work for me.

1. Writing - very dry and repetitive, it's accessible yes but there are so many repetitive lines written deliberately to makes certain points. It didn't work for me and I was truly very annoyed.

2. Plot - very subpar and predictable, it's literally all in the synopsis.

3. Romance- very problematic. I didn't have a problem with the age gap but the romance execution was not done well. It was also absurd how Ox's feelings changed from brotherly to sexual within a day. There is literally no build-up. Joe, the love interest is also very possessive, jealous and manipulative at times.

4. Its a very physical book as in all the characters are always touching, smelling and baring their necks to each other. It might be a werewolf thing but definitely not my thing. I could understand it between the main couple but it was weird having that sort of dynamic between all the characters.

5. This ties into the repetitive part of the story but the more the characters kept saying how special Ox was, the less I believed it. It was specially annoying because Ox doesn't believes he is special and then everyone keeps on insisting that he is - this actually might be the 10% of what this book contains.

Very disappointed by this book and it goes without saying that I wouldn't be picking up the other books in the series. This book might have actually put me off reading any werewolf books in the future.

Beautiful, cathartic, and succinct.

Klune is an extraordinary storyteller, and the short, staccato, dialogue-heavy style of Wolfsong fit the protagonist, Ox, so wonderfully it blew me away. I will preface this by saying I am not usually a huge fan of romantasy, at least not where romance is the primary focus as opposed to a subplot, yet I was inextricably drawn into Ox's world from the very beginning, and I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that Wolfsong is about love and relationships, not only romantic, but also focusing on the powerful platonic, familial and found family bonds people share, as well as the emotions that form those bonds.

Trauma, loss, grief, betrayals, and discovery are explored in a myriad of ways, where we see the reactions of not only Ox, but that of the people around him, and their reactions are all depicted in a way that is authentic, where the validity of their grieving processes are never regarded as less valid for being different.

While some elements of the primary romance made me slightly uncomfortable to begin with due to the age gap and growth elements, I thought that Klune handled it thoughtfully to show the changing relationships between Ox and Joe as they both aged and matured, with different kinds of love being portrayed between them at separate points in their lives, with a distance between the various stages so the characters and their emotions have space to breathe. In addition to that, I enjoyed how Klune depicts how love isn't enough to sustain a relationship, but trust and expectations must be managed and much of the book explores how Ox and Joe need to have equilibrium and get themselves on the same page of understanding before they can finally have a functioning, healthy relationship.

I haven't read such a good queer m/m book in a while and the prose in Wolfsong flowed so smoothly I didn't want to stop. Even though I can't say I've ever been that interested in stories about werewolves, I still got sucked into the story, which speaks to Klune's craft more than I can say.

TJ Klune, whom most might know from The House in the Cerulean Sea, wrote a werewolf series a few years back. The first book of the Green Creek series, Wolfsong, is being re-published in September 2022. It was first published in June 2016.

It is an M/M romance like THitCS or Under the Whispering Door and at the same time it is not. It is a slow build romance like in the other books, but it is much grittier, there is gore, there is very explicit sex and the story is definitely not as whimsical as the above mentioned two.

You need to have read or seen a few werewolf stories to truly appreciate this story, because otherwise you might be put off by the power dynamic between the two ‘lovebirds’ and the proprietary behaviour, not to mention the age gap between the two MCs.

Joe and Ox meet for the first time when Joe is nearly eleven years old and Ox just turned 16. Joe’s family moved into the house at the end of the lane and Ox becomes fast friends with the three boys. He is welcomed into the family from the start, which he finds odd at first. Though when Ox later finds out that the family is a family of werewolves and learns all about werewolf packs, pack wars, Alphas, Betas and Omegas, their behaviour starts to make sense.

When Ox is 22 and Joe 17 the romance really starts. But Joe has had his eyes on Ox for years and his proprietary behaviour towards Ox might not go down with every reader. It’s a werewolf thing, or should I say it’s a theme that comes up in werewolf stories? To give Klune and his characters credit, Joe’s family is completely okay with Joe and Ox getting together. Still, Ox insists that nothing physical should happen between the two of them until Joe is 18 years old.

A lot of things go on in this book besides the romance. For one there is this nasty Omega-wolf who is attacking the pack, because he wants to be Alpha. There is violence, there are fights, people come to harm, but also packs/found families are formed.

Probably not my favourite Klune book, but definitely one that I am glad I did not pass.

This book simply gutted me. So many emotions swept through me while reading this.

Tropes I loved:
🌲 Found family
🌲Shifters
🌲M/M romance
🌲 Cinnamon roll of a hero

This book is about love in all its complexities and variations. The love of a mother for her child, a child who loved his mom and had to now be the man of the house since his dad left them. Brothers by heart and not by blood love. It was love of an adopted family, The Bennets. Ox practiced and lived out this verb love like no other. Ox’s story broke my heart 10 000 times. Too big, too slow, too inadequate, too different. Holding everyone together because he has such a massive heart.

Ugh- it was just so good. Cries all over again!

Thank you Netgalley and the author for this ARC.

I read this over the weekend. It's book one of the Green Creek series and is told from the POV of Ox who becomes involved with the werewolf pack living at the end of the street. It's queer - the werewolves are fluid in their sexualities which was amazing - it made a lot of sense for them as they focus on their pack and their emotions.

The narrative of this book wasn't perfect, it had a certain messy human element to it which worked well to an extent since it's in first person. Ox (a human) was a lovely character to get to know and so were the Bennetts. The whole pack was such a wonderful found family it filled my heart and gave me Twilight vibes in parts - I loved when it got mentioned as well 💚🤣.

I really enjoyed The House In The Cerulean Sea and was very excited to receive Wolfsong as an ARC.

Klune is a very engaging writer who is strong on character and I love that they are an unashamedly queer writer. Having said that, this was not my favourite read. I found myself referencing the Twilight novels quite a bit here and they were really not for me. I also found the relationship between Ox and Joe a little unsettling at times. I appreciate that it is possible for people who were friends for years to suddenly wake up to the fact that they are more than that. It was more that the way that the early relationship between Ox and Joe is written makes what is not actually a massive age difference seem wider than it actually is. There is also the fact that the romantic aspects of their relationship are not given time to flourish here because their vulnerability and their coming of age has to take centre stage for the story to work so the transition, when it comes, seemed rather forced.

I really enjoyed the meditation on pack/family and the logical rather than biological family aspect of the book. It had some really strong elements which, for me, were rather muddied by the plot arc.

I’ve not been very good at sitting and reading lately - thank heavens for audiobooks. However, I started this and was hooked instantly. In fact I stayed up very late last night to finish it.

Ox lives in a small country town with his mom. He has no friends except at the garage where he has been ‘adopted’ by his dad’s old employer. The whole team look out for Ox and his mom.

When a family move into a nearby house, he’s overwhelmed at the welcome he receives. Especially from Joe; who describes Ox so endearingly - I’ll let you discover that.

Lots of pages and emotions later, I’m looking forward to book two! This book has been rereleased from its original date of 2019. I suspect it didn’t do as well as it should’ve. Klune has had two recent hits, with House on the Cerulean Sea timed beautifully to save us from the Lockdown Blues. Now that the public are more aware of Klune, this lovely book should take off.

There were tears; happy and sad. First loves, friendship, family, kindness and kisses. I kinda want to read it again.

The new cover is beautiful too as we’ve come to expect from Klune.

Thank you Netgalley and Pan MacMillan for providing this E- ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I absolutely adore all of TJ Klunes books, and this was no exception. I was drawn in right from the beginning. A highly entertaining read