Reviewed by Annika
TITLE: Ravensong 
SERIES: Green Creek #2
AUTHOR: TJ Klune
NARRATOR: Kirt Graves
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
RELEASE DATE: December 6, 2018
LENGTH: 20 hours, 18 minutes
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.
REVIEW:
Some bonds, no matter how strong, were made to be broken. This book is filled with broken bonds, broken promises and broken hearts. I feel for Gordo and everything he lost during his life, the people and the relationships. There was never really and truly someone there for him to put him first. Before the pack, before the alpha, just before. Sure circumstances were what they were, but still Gordo seemed to always end up on the losing side.
Ravensong is not a book that stands on its own in any way, the story started with Wolfsong and is far from over when the book ends and to be able to enjoy it fully you really should start from the beginning. In this book we follow Gordo’s journey from the very start, coming to his powers, becoming part of the Bennett pack, falling in love with Mark and all the losses he had over the years. We follow him, Joe, Carter and Kelly during the three years they were hunting for the man responsible for killing their father and alpha. Mostly it deals with events happening after they’d returned home again.
I think I might have mentioned this a time or two in prior reviews, but I’m a fan of Kirt Grave’s narrations. They just do it for me. He has what I’m always searching for in my audiobooks; the performance. Living in the book, being the characters and feel what they feel. His range of voices is another plus from me. Though some might be a bit similar, but come on this book has so many male characters to fill… you know what, I don’t have a great analogy, but you know what you mean. They are many and they are prominent, so narrating this book all by his lonesome has got to be a challenge and a half and one Graves did admirably at that.
There is a lot of hurt and pain in this book, especially dealing with the past, the beginning, but also dealing with the omegas and everything surrounding them. Kirt Graves dealt with it just perfectly, it came through so clearly in every word. You truly felt the heartbreak Gordo felt throughout his life. The longing for Mark, the conflicted feelings he had towards werewolves and Pack and Alpha. Then intertwined with the hurt were moments with humor that lightened things up a bit. Graves is an awesome choice of narrator for these books.
As I mentioned before, this book has some serious angst and hurt in it. But not to the point where I was sobbing my heart out, it didn’t leave me a raw heap of emotion (thank you very much Klune for leaving me my sanity – what little there is of it). It just made me feel. And I felt a lot, a whole range of emotions and I couldn’t be happier about it.
This book was 20 some hours of pure awesome and I just can’t wait to listen to more from this series, it’s truly an epic one.
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