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The Bone Orchard

Sara A. Mueller

3.63 AVERAGE

dark emotional mysterious slow-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

The book explores the inner lives of the protagonist and her splintered selves deeply, and shows a world where women have no official political power but still fight for their lives and use the power they can wield. Overall I found it a bit too slow and written in a way where too much was written between the lines

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-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

This is possibly the greatest fictional book I’ve ever read. I am now a diehard Sara A Mueller fan just the way she writes characters, the plot, the fantastical elements is so good!


DNF- the world building could’ve been really fascinating but I simply could not follow it. Typically this would be a good thing, but it jumped right into the story with no explanation of these pretty complicated concepts of the bone ghosts.
challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
challenging reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
emotional reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Wow that was complex and really interesting. Very thought provoking in terms of PTSD, growth, persistence, nature vs nurture, coming to terms with ghe oarts of yourself you carve off for survival and the person you become on the other side of it

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DID NOT FINISH: 5%

Going through titles that have been sitting on my TBR for far too long. Just not into it. 

Fascinating and well paced, super interesting magic (ish) system and exploration of the problems wherein.
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes