1st book in the Green Creek Series
99th book of 2022
Ox was twelve when his daddy taught him a very valuable lesson. He said that Ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left.
Ox was sixteen when he met the boy on the road. The little boy who talked and talked and talked. Ox found out later the little boy hadn’t spoken in almost two years before that day, and that the little boy belonged to a family who had moved into the house at the end of the lane.
Ox was seventeen when he found out the little boy’s secret and it painted the world around him in colors of red and orange and violet, of Alpha and Beta and Omega.
Ox was twenty-three when murder came to town and tore a hole in his head and heart. The boy chased after the monster with revenge in his bloodred eyes, leaving Ox behind to pick up the pieces.
It’s been three years since that fateful day—and the boy is back. Except now he’s a man, and Ox can no longer ignore the song that howls between them.
At least not for me.
CW: Sexual content, death of a parent, violence, child abuse, kidnapping, torture, emotional abuse, domestic abuse, alcoholism
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Okay, this review will be a short one! I loved this book! I was surprised by its size when I bought it; I don’t know, I was intimidated by it. As it’s not my first T.J. Klune book, I think I had so many expectations, but I was so into it that my doubts went away quickly.
This book was a real rollercoaster: it was heart-breaking, heart-mending, then heart-breaking again and heartwarming. I nearly cried at each page and then laughed a lot (and also screamed a lot, but shush). As we follow the characters evolve, we become attached to them so much; we don’t want them to have any problems and sometimes it is a little hard to read due to it.
I only had two minor issues, but they didn’t bother me much as the story progressed. First was the age gap between Ox and Joe at the beginning of the book. Then the unravelling is a little too easily dealt with, especially since you know that a ton of people and years weren’t enough to remove the threat, and it works in one night.
The story is so compelling that you start to read and don’t want the story to be finished, and when it ends, there is missing in your life. That is what I felt about this book. Now, I just want the story between Mark and Gordo. There is so much backstory with these two that it was hard to read sometimes; I want answers!
Liz.
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