Their town of Green Creek is their ancestral land. What follows is 6 years of discovery and growth for both boys, Ox learns that the Bennett family are in fact a pack of werewolves. Joe gives Ox a carved stone wolf the next day, which has special significance. He found out that Joe hadn’t spoken in months since a horrible event from Joe’s family, named Bennett. Joe said he smelled like “Candy Canes, Pine Cones, Epic, and Awesome”. When Ox was 16, he met a boy named Joe, who was only 10. He learned to grow up fast, having to work at an auto garage owned by Gordo Livingstone, a surrogate father figure and big brother to him growing up. His father left him with the parting words that he’d face “shit all his life”, because of how slow and dimwitted he was. Plot: Oxnard “Ox” Matheson grew up without a father. time and patience, it’s not a bad story just takes a while to get where you want it. dragged out certain things, especially the start of the book between Ox and Joe.

Length-wise, it is 495 pages long and 18 hours 40 minutes on audible. It is not the strongest beginnings of a series I’ve read, which is sad, because the rest of the series is so much stronger. There is comedy, but T.J doesn’t find his writing groove until late into book 1 and book 2. This is nothing like The Lightning-Struck Heart, it is darker and far more angsty. At times, I almost lost interest in the entire book and even after finishing it, I was hesitant as to whether I should read book 2 or not. paying homage to Twilight, but with Werewolves instead of Vampires, it feels almost like he wrote parts of this story for AO3. In a way, I think book 1 was written more like a fan-fiction novel with the gratuitous amounts of T.J. Klune though takes his series in a different direction and re-imagines popular myths about werewolves, but he does not go down the rabbit-hole of standard shift fiction. Werewolves are a staple of gay fiction nowadays, thanks to the popularity of the shifter genre and the ABO/Omegaverse type stories.

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