


Omegas are mentioned as being werewolves that have no pack and may go entirely feral if they have no tether. Alpha-ness is presented at first to be an inherited supernatural trait, but that can also be cut out of a werewolf and taken by another if they eat it. Alpha and Beta Wolves: Thomas Bennett is the leader and Alpha of the pack.The book contains examples of the following tropes: The Bennett family have some very obvious peculiarities that Ox takes in stride, like their habit of calling themselves a pack, or the mysterious "family business" they attend to every full moon, or the fact that every so often, Ox sees their eyes flash to different colors, and their teeth become slightly pointed, or they growl when irritated-Īnd thus Oxnard is introduced into a world full of werewolves, witches, and monsters, learning the ins and outs of what it mean to be part of a pack, discovering the traumas of the Bennett's past, and how, now that he has them, he would do anything to keep them all safe.

Things change when the wealthy and mysterious Bennett family move back into their ancestral home down the road, and ten-year-old Joe Bennett takes a sudden and powerful interest in Ox. You’re gonna get shit for most of your life. Ox spends his early adolescence going to school, working under the table at Gordo's auto-shop, and trying to not to hear the echo of his father's parting words, people aren't going to understand you. The only people in Ox's life who care about him as he is are his mother, his father's old coworkers, and their boss, Gordo. He knows because the kids at his school call him names and push him around, even though he's bigger than all of them. Ox knows this because his father told him so when Ox was twelve, on the night he left their home forever. Wolfsong is the first book in TJ Klune's Green Creek series and follows the story of Oxnard Matheson as he befriends the mysterious Bennett family who have just returned to town after an extended absence, and deals with the dangers that follow them.
