Ravensong - T.J. Klune

Title: Ravensong (Green Creek #2)
Author: T.J. Klune
Genre: Paranormal
Rating: 4/5
# pages: Audiobook ~20hrs
Date read: January, 2019

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.


I really enjoyed "Ravensong". It's not quite as good as "Wolfsong", but I think that's mostly because I just happen to like Ox more than Gordo. Still, T.J. Klune's strength is definitely in writing relationships (not just romantic ones - family/friends is almost even better), and that's just as apparent in this book as in all his others.

That's not to say the plot isn't worth reading as well. It's somewhat less contained than the first one, with more being left over for the next book in the series (out sometime in 2019, I think?), but the resolution was good enough not to count as a cliffhanger. I'm interested to see where it goes from here.

In an Absent Dream - Seanan McGuire

Title: In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children #4)
Author: Seanan McGuire
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 187
Date read: January, 2019

This is the story of a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should.

When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. Alas, everything costs at the goblin market, and when her time there is drawing to a close, she makes the kind of bargain that never plays out well.

For anyone...


I had a hard time deciding how to rate this, because it broke my heart a little. Most of it was definitely a 5-star read, but the heartbreak pulled it down a bit. For once I was grateful for the foreshadowing, as it meant I was prepared. Also, foreshadowing bothers me less when the narration style is "seen in hindsight".

I loved the Goblin Market and the idea of "fair trade", I loved the Archivist and Moon. It bothered me slightly that Lundy experienced so much in the Goblin Market which was only told off-page, but at the end of the day, I can see how it isn't actually relevant to the story itself... no matter how interesting I might think it would be to read ;)