Men don't cry! Ox's dad taught him that. 
 Well Ox cried a lot. 
 He cried during sad moments: when he was twelve and his dad abandoned him and his mother. 
 He cried during happy moments: when he was fifteen and he got a shirt for present. A shirt that signified that he was now part of the Gordo's team at the shop where he was working. 
 And he kept crying when he felt like it until he became twenty-five and he stopped sharing his story with us and the book finished. 
 It seems he had disappointed his father. According to him, Ox did not manage to become a real man. Well f@ck the sperm donor, because he was a looser and an @shhole. He made Ox think that he was not smart, did not deserve anything and was gonna get sh!t for most of his life. 
 I was crying when Ox was crying. And I was also crying when he tried not to cry. 
 Ox did not become the man his father wanted him to be. He became more. Much more. 
 He started as a shy, lonely boy who did not talk much, who barely succeeded in school, who was working at a garage to support his mother. 
 He ended up realizing what he truly was: a leader, a lover, a brother, a son, a friend. 
 When he was sixteen, he gave his heart to a blue eyed boy who loved him and later on he trusted him enough to keep his family safe. 
 Joe was so enchanted with Ox. When he met him, you see, magic happened: 
 Rawr and grr and kaboom.... 
 Candy canes and pinecones and epic and awesome... 
 So Joe gave Ox his stone wolf and he took him to meet his family. A weird family who lived at the house at the end of the lane. And like most of the families, the Bennetts had their own secrets. 
 Soon Ox became part of the Bennetts family. He was 
 running with wolves 
 dancing with wolves 
 singing with wolves 
 Ox had layers, you see, and depth. His story may have started being simple, but it gradually became more complicated. He may have been human, but he was also more. Much more. 
 It did not matter what he thought of himself: "I am Ox. Just Ox. That's all." 
 Soon he did what he had to do and he had become what he was supposed to become. 
 Because the world is full of monsters and magic, you see. And Ox had to make choices. 
 The author's style is almost poetic. Like Ox is whispering and singing lyrics to the readers. Stories about how he grew up, how he fell in love. His pack story. His life story. 
 The whole book is a song. You may thing you are reading a novel, but you will be reading poetry. 
 Absolutely fantastic! Absolutely inspiring! 
 It is by far the best book that I have read this year and one of the best books about shifters I have ever read.