Review: Wolfsong

Wolfsong by TJ Klune

Release Date: July 4, 2023

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Thank you NetGalley and Tor books for the ARC. I am leaving this honest review voluntarily.

It’s candy canes and pinecones. And epic and awesome. And it’s everything you would expect from a TJ Klune book, except with a lot more angst and smut. Wolfsong is technically a back list title of Klunes, but Tor is re-releasing the series. If you haven’t read the series before, like me, this is the time.

Clocking in at nearly six hundred pages, don’t let the size of the book intimidate you – I read the book in two days. I could not put it down. I was enthralled. Told from the point of view of Ox, beginning when he is twelve years old, the book’s timeline spans a little over a decade.

At first it was hard to get into the book, but the minute Ox meets ten year old Joe on the dirt road outside his house on the day he turns sixteen, I was hooked. What follows is the slowest of slow-burns, and the most satisfying fantasy story about werewolves I’ve read.

As you would expect from a Klune book by now, the book is full of found family and unconditional love. The book has the squishy feelings his other books have, and you will be laughing and smiling and your heart will be bursting. Except, where this one differs is there are several events that will just rip out your heart and stomp on it. But they don’t hurt too bad, because this is Klune, so he’ll just add more found family and unconditional love to temper the blow.

This book made me laugh, it made me cry, it made my heart swell. If you’re a fan of Klune, you should definitely pick this up. If you’ve never read Klune before, you could also read it, but I suggest you also read all the rest of his books as well. Klune is a favorite author of mine, and he’s never let me down. I hope you will enjoy him too.