Ravensong is the second book in TJ Klune's Green Creek series and I enjoyed it just as much as I enjoyed the first book. I enjoyed the shift in POV from the wolves in the first book to Gordo, the Bennett's witch, in this book.

Gordo not only takes us back through some of the events in the first book so that we see how things unfold from his perspective, but then much of the story focuses on his relationship with Mark Bennett. In many ways this book is a second chance romance story for Gordo and Mark, and we are shown flashbacks from their past to see what tore them apart in the first place. Gordo's pain is palpable throughout, and he was a character I grew to love even more than I did in the first book because we get to see him in such a vulnerable light.

Gordo and Mark's story is a moving one, but then there's also plenty of tension and suspense as there are still threats to their community lurking about. The found family vibes are still there of course, which is one of the main things I love about TJ Klune's novels.

Filled with stellar writing and unforgettable characters, I definitely recommend the Green Creek series to fantasy fans and to anyone who loves a good found family story.

After reading the first novel in this series, Wolfsong, there’s no way I could be prevented from continuing with this series. I just wasn’t sure how I felt about the focus being on characters other than Joe and Ox. Once again, all I needed to do was trust Klune. Gordo and Mark are very different from Joe and Ox, but I loved them just as much.

Part of Gordo’s story is revealed in Wolfsong, but it wasn’t until this novel that I realized just how alone and abandoned he felt as a young teen when the pack departed Green Creek and left him behind. It explains so much about his personality and the walls he’s built around himself. He felt like he was never enough, and he still carries guilt over the deplorable actions of his father. If anyone ever needed a pack, it’s Gordo.

Gordo’s history with Mark is all kinds of messy and filled with misunderstandings and incorrect assumptions – yet it’s clear to everyone they’re meant to be together. Except Gordo. I loved the way Elizabeth (awesome wolfmom) calls him on it. She sees right through him and everyone else.

Odds are stacked far too high against the Bennett pack, and enemies come from unexpected places. I needed to be doing a thousand other things – instead, I curled up on the couch with this novel because I couldn’t go on with my day until I knew what happened to these characters. Saying I was invested in them is an understatement.

In between the action-packed scenes, heartfelt moments, and shocking surprises is the humor among this group of humans and werewolves who would sacrifice themselves for anyone in their pack. If they’re looking for new members, I’m applying.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

Really loved/connected with Gordo and I loooved to have something from his perspective. Beautiful! Heartbreaking but worth all the tears.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!

I loved Wolfsong and was so excited to continue this series! In this book, we get more of Gordo and Mark’s story. I liked that the book does not just pick up where book one left off, but gave us more backstory from Gordo’s perspective, going back over events that were alluded to in Wolfsong. I think that made me even more invested in the characters. The romance was angsty, but I was here for it. I loved seeing things from Gordo’s point of view, and just wanted everything for them. While Ox and Joe are there, this doesn’t have any of their romance in it. I thought the main conflict was gripping and had me on the edge of my seat. I think I gasped and groaned more reading this book than I have for any other book in a long time.

I guess the only thing I would have wished for is like, can the Bennett have a breather and enjoy some peace and quiet for a minute? But no, not for another two books I think. Loved it so much!

Thank you to Netgalley and the Publisher for this Advanced Readers Copy of Ravensong by TJ Klune! This was another really strong concept driven novel from the Author.

More werewolf drama has come to Green Creek, and the Bennet Pack is going to have to face it while divided. Ravensong is Gordo's story, from his childhood with his powerful father to falling in love to choosing to follow his Alpha on a wild goose chase for revenge. Gordo struggles with his past, his hopes for the future, and just how badly his attempts to retreat from the world have harmed him. With old enemies returning to Green Creek, however, he doesn't have long to lick his wounds, and must step into the role he has embraced and fought for so long - witch of the Bennet Pack. The drama is high in this one - grand speeches, burning love unrequited, whole lives destined to come together and split apart. The Green Creek series is addictive and nourishing at the same time, full of gay love and suffering in equal measures, throwing into relief the dichotomy between joy and pain. This is the gay werewolf drama of your dreams, and you should check it out.

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**TL;DR**: I was scared TJ Klune couldn't pull it off after destroying me with Wolfsong but here we are. Gordo is the most grumpy, precious witch in the world. I loved it.

Wolfsong wrecked me earlier this year. I had no idea what I was getting in for with that story and I honestly was both dreading and highly anticipating Ravensong. I put it off and put it off, but wanted to read it so bad. I knew it would make me emotional and high strung but the payoff would be worth it. But I was scared of it. I was totally right, and it was worth it.

Ravensong follows Gordo and Mark. Gordo is the Bennett Pack's Witch and Mark is one of the Beta wolves in the pack. They have a long history, one filled with love and heartbreak and betrayal. We see why Gordo is so delightfully grumpy, why he struggles with the wolves, and how his family have shaped him. We see him acknowledge and forgive, and break out of the cage that was made for him by those people and those betrayals. AND I LOVED SO MUCH OF IT.

I don't think I can calmly talk about how much this book hurt me and then helped heal me. But the dynamic between Gordo and his amazing friends and pack is just a beautiful representation to me of what found family can be and do for someone. The romance is good, don't get me wrong, but the found family in this? That's the beating heart of it for me and really truly recommend this if you read Wolfsong and enjoyed it. Keep going and read about my grumpy King. It'll make you happy (and sad but then happy again, I promise).

While Gordo has been one of my favorite characters throughout this series, I felt as though the story told in this book wasn’t as strong as it was in Wolfsong. There were more slow parts than I would have expected resulting in me rating it 4 stars rather than 5. I believe that if the chapters about what Gordo’s pack experienced throughout the 3 years they were away had been told in Wolfsong, that it would have made Ravensong a much faster read for me.

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T.J. Klune does it again! Am I bias? Mayb...NO! I am not. I am spitting facts.

This man is masterful when it comes to building whimsical worlds that I am easily drawn to and forever want to get lost in. The Green Creek series does not miss plus I think Ravensong was better than the first book even though Joe and Ox will forever hold a special place in my heart.

Is it because I love myself a grumpy sunshine romance? Is it because I am easily drawn to angsty and forbidden love? Is it because I love mystical worlds that are riddled with magic and wolves?

To all of the above....absolutely.

I am invested in the Bennett pack. They are my life and soul now.

To give you a special Dani word vomit summary of why you should read this book. If you want a version of Twilight where Jacob was the main character but loves men and rules his pack. You need to check out this series. It is emotion. It will make you feel all the warm fuzzy emotions. You one hundred percent will get the lovely Klune magic that is translated from House on the Cerulean Seam Under the Whispering Door and In the Lives of Puppets. This second book in the Green Creek series brings back all our favorite wolves, witches and humans trying to restore the peace in their small town yet this time we follow the romance and mystery between Mark and Gordo. Holy goodness, my heart was in a vice grip the entire time I was reading this. I could not get over how tragically beautiful their love was. I want to bury myself in its beauty. Ugh. We find out so much more about the Bennett families past. We learn more to the dark magic looming around Green Creek. I stayed for the romance and the bond between all these characters.

After that ending....I am going to need Heartsong RIGHT NOW! GOSH DARN IT!

It's epic and awesome. Those f***ing wolves. *happy sigh*

Thank you Tor Publishing Group for the arc. I will forever bow down to you all for granting me these beautiful T.J. Klune style wishes and letting me squawk to the world the love that I have for his writing.

I enjoyed this book but I preferred Wolfsong. The relationship between Mark and Gordo got too frustrating for me, constantly fighting their bond, attraction and love. The pack as always were great, and the feeling of family and connection. The language used between characters is heartfelt and sweet. Didn’t love the first half of the book overall.

I read a review that said this was the better book than Wolfsong that came before it. I don't believe it, not because I disagree, but because this book is as different to the novel in the series immediately before it as to be chalk and cheese.

If that book was like a gentle hug and the kind of feel good movie that assures you everything was going to all be fine at the end, this book was more like watching Speed, with my heart in my throat the whole time.

And that was freaking hard, because I've done a speed read through these books over the weekend, and I don't want these characters to hurt anymore!

The thing about reading these first two books in the series back to back is that I really, really appreciate just how much work the author put into the background of the characters and the world around them before he even sat down to write the first book. Things that I didn't quite get when reading Wolfsong become woefully apparent now. Not just of the time when Gordo, Joe, Carter and Kelly went off after the Omega wolf who had killed their pack Alpha, but everything (and that as well).

The first third of this novel overlaps the previous one, but it also fills in a lot of the holes of Gordo's childhood that runs along the same tracks as Joe, Carter and Kelly's father before they were all born.

Which... is kinda what I mean when I say that this book had my heart in my throat for the whole of it. Because, if that's how it starts, it then sinks into a year later and the next crisis facing this pack of humans and wolves only a year after the events of the last book.

I think, in the end, I enjoyed the story elements of this one more than I enjoyed the actual romance between Mark and Gordo who were just a bit too crotchety for my liking on both fronts.

I will admit to some definite disappointment that the second book in this series didn’t continue following Ox and Joe. But getting the second chance romance between Gordo and Mark? I’ll take it! Since this is the second book in a series, there will be spoilers for the first book in this review.

The first section of the book alternates between scenes from Gordo and the brothers’ hunt after Richard Collins and Gordo’s childhood. Let’s just say that it makes his initial distrust and outright panic over keeping Ox away from the Bennet’s more understandable. But catching up to the present and the aftermath of Richard Collins isn’t a cakewalk, either. Something’s going on with the Omegas and the temporary Alpha of all isn’t being very forthcoming. But it’s when things get personal for Gordo that he truly has to chose between his anger and the man he lost.

“You could have become the villain, Gordo. And it would have been within your rights. Instead you just chose to be an asshole.”


“Are you … complimenting me? Because if you are, you’re doing a really bad job at it.”
Gordo was an interesting character for me in the first book. Yeah, he’s a jerk (and worse) in so many ways but he’s also there for Ox when he needs him. Once I clocked that he’s a porcupine with a heart of gold, well, of course I liked him. He’s grumpy and snappish – his friends at the garage say he has “murder eyebrows” – but his pack knows that he’s full of hot air. He only truly lashes out at Mark, his mate, who he blames for…. well, a lot of things. Gordo’s anger is well-deserved and very understandable, but it did wear thing after a while.

The part of the book that hit hardest for me was the theme around parents and children, about living up to – or defying – their expectations. It was also a thread through the first book, between Ox’s bio father who told him he was nothing and the slow relationship he builds – and then loses – with Thomas. But where Ox has put his ghosts to rest, Gordo has a lot more wreckage to deal with.

Gordo’s bio dad was established pretty definitively as one of the main villains in the first book. So it may be hard to believe that he comes off even worse in this book. Gordo is who he is – the Bennett pack witch – because of his father’s actions, and whether that’s a positive or negative thing is something that changes throughout the book. And then there’s Thomas who was the bio dad or chosen dad of so many characters. While Gordo’s trained by his father and Thomas’s father, he knows that he’ll be Thomas’s witch. So his betrayal – as he sees it – takes an already hurting child and decimates him. The villain also has to deal with living in the specter of their parent’s shadow – and is a counterexample of the path that Gordo chose not to take.

“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.”


And then, of course, there’s the romance. Mark and Gordo grew up together long before Gordo realized that Mark knew he was his mate. So it’s no surprise that Gordo feels just as betrayed by Mark as he does by Thomas. But despite everything everything, Gordo still loves him – even while he wishes he hates him. He does his best to lash out and push Mark away and convince himself it’s not true. Given wolves’ noses and the bond that still exists between them, Mark knows he’s lying but only pushes so far. I was disappointed by the circumstance that led to Gordo finally accepting his feelings – it’s a trope I particularly dislike – but I liked seeing them attempt to rebuild a relationship while still acknowledging both of their pain. The only problem? The main focus of the book was on the events happening in the pack and around Green Creek, not their relationship. I honestly hesitate to even label this romance with how little time they spend together, though what’s there is certainly worth it.

While I enjoyed Gordo’s prickly point of view, there’s no arguing that there’s some intangible quality that’s missing compared to Ox’s POV. He has a pretty unique viewpoint given his knowledge about the wolves while not being one himself so you’d think that it would work. Part of it I think is that despite all the things that happen in the book, Wolfsong can feel like a warm hug. We meet Ox and Joe as children and there’s lots of happy peppermint smells and family dinners and just Ox’s generally positive viewpoint. There’s none of that with the way this book starts and even after that Gordo is generally, well, bitter. It’s an enthralling read but not necessarily a comforting one. In addition, the depictions of the non-White characters felt a bit stereotypical to me, Rico especially. Random Spanish and some stale Latinx stereotypes do not make a character. Not my background, though, so I’ll leave that up to someone else to pick apart.

Overall, while I didn’t like this anywhere near as much as the first one, I’m definitely intrigued enough to keep going with the series.

I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

I really enjoyed Wolfsong and was so excited to read Ravensong! TJ Klune has become an auto buy author me, I just love his writing so much and I really enjoy how he tells a story but also the way he writes his characters is unlike anything else.

The success of recent books has brought about a renaisance of TJ Klune books. And I am loving it. The second book in the series has Gordo brought back into the pack. Again. You definitely need to read the first book first. And I recommend that everyone does. TJ Klune writes chracters in a way no one else quite does. It is the reason to read his books. The stories are definitely good. But the characters are what makes a great TJ Klune book.

Wow, what a fantastic follow-up to Wolfsong. WhereI found Wolfsong to be about new and budding romance between two young men who were learning about themselves and finding each other along the way; I found Ravensong to be a bit more mature and not so much about romance as true, deeply felt love. It is a more mature connection between these characters though we do get some flashbacks to when they were young and not mature enough to follow their “song.” The main bulk of the story focuses on when they are older and time has passed and their feelings for each other are different but not gone. That’s why I think this story is more about love and the emotions that come with it.

When you’re young, you want to believe everything lasts forever. This book shows us that sometimes time has to pass in order for things to make sense. I love that this story seems to be more about the families we choose and deciding it’s the people we pick who are our pack and not just the family we are born into.

I think my only critique was the length of this book. I felt as though some parts were a bit slow, as with the first, and we could have made a few cuts to keep momentum and still keep content. Otherwise, I eagerly look forward to the next installment of this series and hope we get them before too long.

My biggest mistake with this was to start the series from the second novel with zero idea of what is going on. But I had to request it as soon as I saw T.J Klune’s name on it as I loved The House on the Cerulean Sea. I love the style and storytelling skills of the author so I jumped without thinking. Do I regret it? Absolutely not but it would have been better if I read the Wolfsong first because there is no recap whatsoever at the beginning. If you are part of Team Jacob, you will love this story filled with cool pack of wolves, alpha dogs, powerful families and bittersweet relationships. The characters are so lovable and adorable that you cannot help root for them despite their flaws. The novel switches back and forth between different time frames and these flashbacks caught me a little of guard but I managed to follow the storyline even without my lack of background knowledge on the series. Overall a lovely fantasy filled with mythical creatures in a magical world and amiable characters that will stay with you for a long time.

It's taken me a few days to be able to get my thoughts in order about this book, and it still feels jumbled in my head. I really liked this story-and I almost wish I hadn't read Wolfsong first! I just feel this is it's own story (which it is) but I went into it with preconceived ideas about some of the characters. I think my preconceived ideas clouded how I viewed some characters. Luckily, TJ is an amazing author who was able to write the story so that I learned new things about each character, and now I love them all so much more! The twist of information at the very end will definitely make me read the next two books in this series, and I can't wait! Thank you Netgalley for gifting me a of Ravensong!

I love all of TJ Klune's books I have read and was not disappointed with this one.

Klune has a magical way of weaving a beautiful tale and his characters come right off the page. This series is a bit darker than his other works but it works well for the story and Klune's signature style still shines through. I love Gordo and the relationship between him and Mark is so interesting to read about and its nice that this book focuses more from their points. I cannot wait to get into the third book!

I highly recommend 'Ravensong' by TJ Klune for fans of the Green Creek series. This emotionally charged novel takes readers on a thrilling journey of supernaturally complicated relationships. The author's gifted storytelling easily guides us through the struggles of the Bennett pack as they navigate issues of loyalty, love, and acceptance. In 'Ravensong', the character of Gordo Livingstone is extensively examined, providing profound insights into his past and present. The book's character development and poignant themes make it a captivating yet belabored read that will keep you engrossed from start to finish.

Can I live in Green Creek? Because I kinda want to live in Green Creek and be Pack. I loved this book just as much as I loved the first book in the series. I loved Gordo and Mark together. I loved how we got to know more of Gordo's background. The plot moved forward at a great pace, and resolved enough of the problems while setting up stuff to continue to drive the rest of the series. I'm definitely left wanting more, more more. Can't wait to get my hands on the next book.

Thank you NetGalley for gifting me a free ARC in exchange for my honest review.