Wolfsong (Green Creek, #1) by T.J. Klune.

I knew I had read this book before, but I could remember nothing of it, so I figured it was many years ago.

I started reading it and loved it.

I knew this book was the first of four books, and since I didn't have the other three, I figured it was many many years ago that I read it.

I resisted looking at my review though because I was loving it so much I didn't want spoilers.

Then about 20% in my enjoyment vanished. And it kept getting worse.

By 35% or so I wanted to DNF it, but I checked Goodreads to see what they had said and saw my own review there:

Somewhere around the 33% mark I wanted to stop reading, but I had liked the beginning so much I forced myself to keep going. At the 60% or so mark I started skimming more than reading, so I decided to give up on it. DNF 64%

I've never had a book that went from "most perfect thing ever" to "yawn" so fast before.

When had I written that review? 2022. And somehow didn't remember a single thing about the book.

This time I forced myself to finish it, but it really, really, really was not the book for me. Romance (there was a sex scene that seemed to last an entire chapter. So Many Pages.), the writing style was just not for me, and it was all so drawn out and redundant.

Original review here, if you care to see more about the plot and such.

DNF #185: Wolfsong (Moonrise book #1) by Ignatz Dovidāns. More of a prologue than an actual book. It only introduced the characters, there seemed to be no real plot connecting them. Felt like the author was going for a Game of Thrones thing: Cast of characters spread across the world, nothing similar between them, no idea where or who they were in relation to each other..

Nothing about it hooked me, so DNF.

In searching for the other Wolfsong's review, I found that I had tried reading this Wolfsong before, too (also in 2022). It was the one with this horrible review:



DNF #186: The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer. I've read hundreds of books, and I think the main character in this one was the most annoying one I ever read.

Set in the future, a woman is lost on one of the moons of Jupiter, so her brother trains to go rescue her. He's the son of the woman who owns the biggest company in the world, he's been trained to take it over. He's the first ranked astronaut in the entire world. He knows what the mission to find his sister will take (months of travel alone in a spaceship).

And yet he WHINED AND WHINED AND WHINED from the first moment on the ship about how lonely he was and how horny he was. But GUESS WHAT! Lucky for him a super sexy guy JUST HAPPENED to be on the ship with him!

Somehow this has 9,362 five star reviews on Goodreads. Apparently there are some good twists in the story, but I just could not put up with the main character long enough to get to them.

DNF #187: The Blameless by E.S. Christison. While this wasn't that bad of a story, the issue was the characters. The villain was mustache-twisting bad. I didn't believe his actions or some of the other characters'.

Set in a fantasy world, a princess's whole family is assassinated in a night. She's rescued by a group of heroes called The Blameless -- people with magical powers given to them by the gods.

The story wasn't original enough for me to want to stick with it through those issues.

Wolfsong by J Klune. This book. I've never had a reading experience like this before.

Set in what seemed like the real world, the main character is Ox, a human who is found by a werewolf boy. Ox seemed to be mentally handicapped (or very very stupid), which let the reader see all the clues that something was off. Slowly the reader can figure out that werewolves really exist.

I loved the way the werewolves worked, I loved the pack and the world building.

The first fifth of the story or so was PERFECT for me. I love werewolf stories, but I'm picky about them. This one was like the author crawled into my head and found all the things I liked best. I loved the story. Loved the writing style. Loved everything.

Unfortunately, going in to the book blind (it's been on my Kindle long enough for me to have forgotten anything about it), I hadn't realized it was a romance. I can cope with a well-written romance story, but man, this one was just so slow slow slow slow.

Plus Ox seemed to quickly change to a normal person -- no more mental slowness. The author repeatedly said he was a quiet, mentally slow person, but there was no sign of that. (There was way too much "tell, not show" going on.)

Somewhere around the 33% mark I wanted to stop reading, but I had liked the beginning so much I forced myself to keep going. At the 60% or so mark I started skimming more than reading, so I decided to give up on it. DNF 64%

I've never had a book that went from "most perfect thing ever" to "yawn" so fast before.

Grass Lands by John S Ryan. Whatever was wrong with it must have been pretty bad since I DNFed it at 2%, but it was a while ago and I don't remember why anymore.

How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell. I loved the movie, so I've been curious about the book for years. Finally I gave it a try. Unfortunately the style didn't work for me, but more than that, the ebook version had serious formatting issues that made it really hard to read. I'll just stick with the movie. DNF 10%


Partial book credits:
Point reached in DNF books: 64%, 2%, 10%
Previous abandoned book total: 637%
New total: 713% (seven books)