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The Bone People

Keri Hulme

3.95 AVERAGE

loreopoly's review against another edition

4.0

beautiful, poignant, dark and brutal...
needs an open heart and an open mind filled with the willingness to love all aspects of the soul within...

lesiene's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

logvz's review against another edition

3.75

challenging emotional funny reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

coco_lolo's review against another edition

5.0

I waffled a bit on the rating, because I don't think this is a perfect novel. But God, is it incredible. I'm already planning to reread it this year so I can do a deep dive and annotate it to hell and back. The unconventional prose style and structure. The lovable yet extremely flawed characters. The conversations around culture and family, both by blood and by choice. The painful, complicated depiction of child abuse, trauma, and love. The Bone People isn't going to be for everyone, whether that be because of the abuse depicted or the writing or the magical realism that creeps up on you (the last 150-ish pages weren't as compelling to me), and although I do have some issues with the ending, they're issues I can think on and already have found myself better able to appreciate.

holmesianreads's review against another edition

2.0

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Started weird with the main character being a Holmes, then I enjoyed the description. Then I hated how the child abuse was dealt with even if it was a product of its time. Then even more confused by the plot ending and still don't know what happened at the end
Leant to - nobody actively trying to get rid of it (left in kathmandu)
Highbrow booker winner
Paperback bought in central auckland
Rating: 2 stars