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La Fille aux éclats d'os by Andrea Stewart

30 reviews

hanz's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Interesting world and magic system, but not all of the perspectives worked for me. Felt like a couple of different books joined together at times. Saw some of the reveals coming very early on, but the ending teased interesting things for future books, so I'm interested to read the sequel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Gore, and Grief

emilypete17's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

One of the most well-done adult high fantasies I've read in ages. Andrea Stewart has woven an incredibly rich and socially complex world, chock full of complicated, incredibly interesting characters. The magic system of this book was equal parts horrifying and compelling, and the plot kept me on the edge of my seat until the very last page(I mean this quite literally). The exploration of imperialism and class felt so grounded in our current reality, even in such a fantastical setting. Absolutely pumped to continue this series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Colonisation, Death, Gore, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Grief, and Physical abuse

Minor: Animal death, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

mothie_girlie's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Trafficking

Moderate: Blood and Body horror

Minor: Confinement

lavendera_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Gore, Torture, Murder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Slavery, Trafficking, Torture, Violence, Grief, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, and Kidnapping

anigoose's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

I really enjoyed listening to this book. The pace of the narrators was really excellent. 

There was at least bear content for once!! Just, um, 🐻😳, maybe not the bear content bears want. Please refrain from sticking boneshards in us thank you, sheesh.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, and Violence

Minor: Toxic relationship

caseythereader's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

 - THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER is one of the most beautiful and engaging epic fantasies I've read in a long time. Stewart drops you into the world with little preamble, letting you figure it out on your own, and the world she has created is intricate, sprawling, and filled with vibrant people.
- There are a pretty big number of POV characters, and each time a chapter ended I was like "no wait, what's next!" but then got immediately engrossed by whoever else we were returning to.
- This is also a queernorm world, with a F/F relationship between two of the main characters.
- I did see the big reveal coming, but that didn't make the story any less gripping - if anything, I was reading faster to see how it all turned out. Give me book two now! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Sexual assault, and Violence

fennel's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Violence, Body horror, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Racism, Gore, and Animal cruelty

totallyshelfaware's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, and Animal cruelty

bookishbutch's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, Blood, Death, Kidnapping, and Grief

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Child death

Minor: Confinement, Drug use, Medical trauma, and Torture

sarahsthoughtsonbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

4.75

What did I just read? I don't know how to describe most of the book.

Read the print and audio in tandem. The narrators did a great job. Andrea Stewart did a fabulous job with the world building.

The book has multiple POV, I want to say 5 different POVs, some of them are in first person, and some are in third person. 

Quick summary - 
The emperor requires a piece of bone shard to be extracted from all citizens of the country when they are eight years old at the tithing festival. 

He then acts like Dr. Frankenstein and creates different constructs that act like his spies and generals out of various animal pieces (his main spy construct is scary sounding, so much scarier than Frankenstein's monster)

LGBTQ relationships are accepted.

Cannot wait until the next book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

Minor: Child death and Violence