Ravensong by T.J. Klune

This week I’m doing a follow-up review on Ravensong: the second book in the Green Creek series by T.J. Klune! Last week I reviewed Wolfsong and that book held a lot of heartbreak and fuzzies for me, so I was really excited to see how one of my favorite side characters’ love story went in Ravensong. I am a simple creature. I had to know if they got their HEA or not!

Here’s the blurb:

Gordo Livingstone never forgot the lessons carved into his skin. Hardened by the betrayal of a pack who left him behind, he sought solace in the garage in his tiny mountain town, vowing never again to involve himself in the affairs of wolves.

It should have been enough.

And it was, until the wolves came back, and with them, Mark Bennett. In the end, they faced the beast together as a pack… and won.

Now, a year later, Gordo has found himself once again the witch of the Bennett pack. Green Creek has settled after the death of Richard Collins, and Gordo constantly struggles to ignore Mark and the song that howls between them.

But time is running out. Something is coming. And this time, it’s crawling from within.

Some bonds, no matter how strong, were made to be broken.

Alright, into the review we go! As far as this book being the second book in the series, I feel like Klune did a good job hooking the reader back in and not really letting off steam as far as the plot went. In other words, the second book did not let the first book overshadow it! Yay! In book two, you definitely get a deeper dive into the side characters that you frustratingly don’t get to know in the first book. I got to say, Klune does have a penchant in this series for characters with traumatic backstories, it seems. Maybe that’s just the first two books in the series, but I’m not complaining! I loved getting to see the main characters working past their differences… eventually. The “slow-burn” aspect of their relationship was torture, but it made sense and was a really good representation of the process of rebuilding broken trust. So I guess one could say it was a painful masterpiece!

But that was not the only torture that Klune has in store for the reader in this book… Oh, man, thinking about that half of it makes me want to simultaneously break out into maniacal cackling and break down sobbing. An odd mix of emotions, to say the least. If you’re looking for a slow-burn, second-chance, tortuous supernatural romance with a cast of sassy characters and a conflict that has you on the edge of your seat emotionally and physically then I recommend Ravensong to you! But, for the love of everything good on this planet, read the first book first! Ravensong is book two! Don’t be that person, I beg of thee! Anyway, I digress. Happy reading y’all!

Toodles,

Renee