"Staying behind or getting left behind?" 
 "Ox," she cried, "there is a difference." 
 4.5 glorious stars 
 How is this book not read or on the tbr of 
 any 
 of my GR friends?? 
 Guys, you are missing out!!! 
 "Sometimes, when your heart gets so full, it takes away your voice and all you can do is hold on for dear life." 
 That is exactly how I felt reading this! 
 It is so wonderful and full of meaning and love and family. 
 I'll be honest. I wasn't expecting that. It hurt, but in a good way. Sometimes, pain can be good. 
 Ox is just a gem of a narrator and the majority of this book I just wanted to hold him and make sure everything was okay. He is just so very strong and precious! 
 I loved the sense of family, of pack. The Bennetts were just lovely. 
 And there is such good humour mixed in with the kinship, I was giggling like mad at some of the banter and some of the awkward situations! 
 "You're lucky I'm straight. I would have hit that a long time ago." he sniffed the air and had the audacity to look offended. "Seriously? You're not aroused? At all?" 
 "My life," I groaned. 
 The werewolf lore was just fantastic, not just there as an aid to the story but detailed and thought out and real. 
 Sure, it ends up spanning quite a long period of time. But it was so engaging and I was so invested and the plot is so beyond just these amazing, wonderful characters that it didn't matter. 
 If you are looking for a book that will give you the feels, this is it!!! 
 Someone told me once that the light we see from them is hundreds and thousands of years old. That the star could already be dead and we'd never know it because it still looked alive. I thought that was a terrible thing. That the stars could lie. 
 If you can take another breath, if you can take another step, then you're not broken. Battered, maybe. Bruised. Cracked. But never broken. 
 Read it.