and that’s all there is… wow.

feels weird that it’s over, wouldn’t have guessed that ending a mile away. never, ever guessed. i feel like there’s nothing more to say about these characters, this pack, this family. wow. i loved seeing carter’s love for his brothers from his perspective because until now we’ve only known it through someone else; hearing it from ox, gordo and robbie was very different than hearing it from carter.

the sections with kelly and carter, joe and carter or all three of them were my favorites. i’m the middle of three and it was heartbreaking and also lovely to see the three of them heal together.

fair warning, under this may sound negative but it’s written in hindsight of the series as a whole. 

i feel just slightly disconnected from this story in the way that carter feels different in this book than in the other ones and i don’t know quite what it is. maybe it’s that gavin is a person now and we’re hearing from him instead of just whatever carter understands from him as the timber wolf. with the other three books you get the couples in some capacity, whether background or on their own so you’re wanting for their story but for some reason gavin and carter don’t feel… right?

in wolfsong, you see history with mark and gordo which leads into ravensong then you see kelly and robbie through both which gives to heartsong but gavin is a wolf the whole time until the last second and carter gets a rush of ‘oh shit wait a minute’ and we see he realizes what’s been around him the whole time but up until now we’ve not really gotten their dynamic and i feel like i wanted to read on mostly because i wanted to know if livingstone dies and what happens to everyone else. i found myself not really believing carter was in love with gavin, the carter we’re given doesn’t feel like the carter we know in the other books.

really carter going off after haven FOR A YEAR is ridiculous, kelly just got his wolf back right after robbie was taken and it is genuinely horrible he cuts the ties with the pack and risks being an omega again to get someone back that for all we’ve know him, carter doesn’t want him around.

i wish wish wish there was more of a struggle or questioning or something with carter and gavin being a man because as long as we’ve known him he’s seemed to been only interested in women and it seems like that all just cancels out at the last second. i know he kisses ox and jokes about being bi but i think that’s it. i almost wanted/prefered only the bennett brothers aspect and none of the romance because those parts of carter being the oldest, protecting kelly and joe, being kelly’s tether and blaming himself for richard collins kidnapping joe felt way more genuine than his love for gavin, even chris and tanner being platonic best mates made more sense than gavin and carter being in love.

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