TheCrazyWorldOfABookLover's Reviews > Ravensong

"Once, there was a boy.
Once, there was a wolf.
He had sat with his back against a tree.
His bare feet were in the grass.
The boy leaned forward and kissed the wolf.
And knew then that nothing would ever be the same."

Green Creek Series - Recommended for: i GUESS ANYONE WHO ENJOYS HYPERVENTILATING aND SCREAMING At ALL TIMES AND DROWNING IN UTTER LONGING AND DESPAIR

I knew this would happen. I did. I'd read Ravensong KNOWING TJ was going to rip my heart to shreds, yet I was excited for it. And what a weird thing to appreciate about an author - I knew the slaughter was coming, but I happily paid for him to break my heart. I literally pre-ordered pain.

All joking aside though ---

Magic. This book is magic. The series is magic. TJ Klune is magic. And however he came up with this story is magic, too.

And the atypical way it's told, the a-linear, disjointed way it all unfolds that's somehow reminiscent of Gordo's life, that connects past to present, that shows how history has repeated itself, that forces the reader to pay such close attention to the prose -- just BRILLIANT.

But guys, it's too much. The feelings this story pulled are too much. All that's happened is too much. I still can't process all that occurred and my mind is REELING with all that’s to come because of that bomb of an ending!

I stated in my review of Wolfsong that I knew from chapter 1 that was going to be a 5 star read. That it was going to be the best thing I've read in a while. Or maybe even one of the best books I've read, EVER. Same goes for Ravensong. TJ has outdone himself with this.

"I’d hated him then, and I hated him now. But the funny thing about hate is the razor-thin line that separates it from something else entirely. Because I loved him too, no matter how hard I tried to convince myself I didn’t. I always had. Even when I’d wanted to kill him, even when I felt the most betrayed, I couldn’t stop. It was a twisted thing, the roots buried deep in my chest, tangled and thick. I had thought it would rot and fester, become something dark that I couldn’t control, but it just stayed as it was, and I hated him for it. For making me feel this way after all he’d done to me and I’d done to him. I wanted him gone. I never wanted to see him again. I wanted him to hurt like I’d hurt. To burn. To bleed. I wanted to keep my hands on him, to feel the animal underneath. I wanted to lean forward and bite him, leaving my mark against his skin, tattooed so that he would never be without me on him, so that everyone would know I’d been there, and I’d been there first. I wanted to kill him. I wanted to fuck him. I wanted him to tear me apart."

"He turned his arm over. He gripped my wrist, thumb brushing against my pulse point. “I wasn’t your first.”
Goddamn him for knowing what I was thinking. “Damn right you weren’t.”
“And you weren’t mine.” I wanted a name. Tell me who the fuck it was. I’d find them. I’d fucking kill them. I said, “I don’t care.”
His eyes flickered orange. “But I swear I’m going to be your last. Fight me. Hit me. Fucking light me up. Hate me all you want—”
I bristled at that. “Get the fuck out of my head,” because I could hear him whispering gordo gordo gordo along that thread that stretched between us. It bounced around my skull until all I could do was hear him saying my name again and again and again. He was consuming me, and I wanted him to. I couldn’t stand the thought.
“—but it’s going to happen. You hear me? I will hunt you down if that’s what it takes. You can run from me, Gordo. But I will always find you. I let you go once. I’m not going to make that mistake again.”

TJ DiD ^ THaT!

Anyway, that's all!! If any of you guys need me, I'll be down here on the floor, dying and slowly fading away to a land where all my favorite characters are well and content and Heartsong is already out and I don't have to wait an entire year to read it.

“This isn’t how it ends,” I told him as he watched the empty doorway, the house filling with shadows as it shook on its foundation. “I know it feels like it, but this isn’t our ending. We find our way back to each other. No matter how long it takes, we find our way back again. It’s how we always are. It’s how we’ll always be.”

**And if I wasn't clear from the re-posted Wolfsong review, this review, the tweets, or the 184 Instagram story updates and Facebook posts, this series is ridiculously good (like, it has no business being this good) and I'm gonna need everyone to read these, stat.**

Wolfsong (Green Creek, #1) | https://amzn.to/2BvdrnG
Ravensong (Green Creek, #2) | https://amzn.to/2MAWBYJ



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