WOW. heartsong was stunning. kelly may be my favorite character now. as a middle child, i feel we’re connected somehow.

after reading the first two books as well as the short story i thought i knew the format, based on how the other two books start - in the beginning, when they are young and with a flashback - so considering we started with robbie in maine with michelle and a witch we never met i guessed this was before he went to green creek.

LITTLE DID I KNOW

honestly any hint of robbie’s shoulder hurting or itching, the times slips, brodie being an omega, ANYTHING, i genuinely missed. it wasn’t until the little boy, tony said, ‘when you came back’ i even considered that maybe it was a situation of him bouncing around as a kid but still not that he’d left (been taken from) green creek. when he calls shannon and she’s confused on why he’s calling her and he doesn’t know who she is, i had to go back a chapter or two and reread because i was right there with robbie like “what is happening?!” i assumed robbie was psychic seeing visions of ox and joe before he was sent to spy on them and that ezra was the witch before dale and the prisoner was livingstone or richard collins.

and honestly when the pack shows up i was counting for “okay that’s you and that’s you” but two unrecognized wolves i was like … and then it’s tanner and chris and even more confusion as kelly is yelling to not hurt him and so much in that moment of genuine what. is. going. on. that it only clicked we weren’t in a flashback was when kelly said he and robbie were mates. ASTONISHING. i was SHOCKED OH i couldn’t believe it. when kelly’s wolf was taken and carter was screaming he didn’t smell like a wolf the tears would not stop.

my darling boys relearning how to love each other was heart wrenching and funny and so perfect and hopeful. i loved how there was robbie deep down inside him even though the memories and years were taken from him, he couldn’t get all of it. rico struggling to trust robbie again was so hard to watch because everyone was in so much pain and relief, understandable that he couldn’t just let it go even if he wanted to.

when mark and robbie were in his room talking about the stone wolf i had to put the book down for a minutes because i wasn’t ready to know it was kelly’s, i could tell it was going that way but i still wasn’t ready and getting carter and mark back to betas just overwhelmed me, especially gordo begging him to show him his eyes over and over UGH.

i don’t know what else to say really, i could go on and on about this series.

overall series ranking:
- heartsong
- ravensong
- wolfsong
- brothersong