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3.46 AVERAGE
3.46 AVERAGE
Its amazing what secrets the "perfect" family can hide. Rosie's family looks perfect from the outside but after her death their secrets start to be peeled away like layers of an onion. Reminiscent of The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, Rosie tells her story from beyond the grave, while Kate unravels it on the living side.
Flipping from Rosie's perspective, to Delphine, Kate and Jo, this book unravels. It doesn't feel like you are being told a story so much as feeling that as things start to fall apart you start to see the cracks and imperfections that make you want to pick at them along with the characters to allow you to see the truth.
Very well written with parts that make you smell the fresh air, and odor of horses and sunshine. There were also parts I felt were lacking or missing, and some legal maneuvering that is common sense that didn't seem to happen. However, I would still recommend this book especially if you like to delve into the more psychological aspects of why a murder takes place. This was a disturbing psychological thriller that didn't move at a breakneck pace but rather a slow uncovering of the all the more disturbing facts.
Flipping from Rosie's perspective, to Delphine, Kate and Jo, this book unravels. It doesn't feel like you are being told a story so much as feeling that as things start to fall apart you start to see the cracks and imperfections that make you want to pick at them along with the characters to allow you to see the truth.
Very well written with parts that make you smell the fresh air, and odor of horses and sunshine. There were also parts I felt were lacking or missing, and some legal maneuvering that is common sense that didn't seem to happen. However, I would still recommend this book especially if you like to delve into the more psychological aspects of why a murder takes place. This was a disturbing psychological thriller that didn't move at a breakneck pace but rather a slow uncovering of the all the more disturbing facts.
A holiday book. It was fine, if not a little predictable.
dark
tense
medium-paced
I received this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.
This book is about a young girl named Rosie Anderson who is missing and we then find out she has been murdered. Rosie would go and ride horses at a woman named Kate's house and Kate befriends Rosie's mum Jo. Kate thinks that Jo and her husband Neal have the perfect lives, marriage and children but as she gets more involved with the family she finds this isn't so.
This story is told in alternating view points, Kate in the present and Rosie where we find out what has happened to her in the past and ultimately her death. I found the two characters of Laura and Rachel who are Kate's friends a wee bit confusing as I felt they blended in to one another. There are lots of secrets and lies which keep you guessing until the end.
To me this book is like marmite you will either love it or hate it.
I would recommend it to psychological thriller fans.
This book is about a young girl named Rosie Anderson who is missing and we then find out she has been murdered. Rosie would go and ride horses at a woman named Kate's house and Kate befriends Rosie's mum Jo. Kate thinks that Jo and her husband Neal have the perfect lives, marriage and children but as she gets more involved with the family she finds this isn't so.
This story is told in alternating view points, Kate in the present and Rosie where we find out what has happened to her in the past and ultimately her death. I found the two characters of Laura and Rachel who are Kate's friends a wee bit confusing as I felt they blended in to one another. There are lots of secrets and lies which keep you guessing until the end.
To me this book is like marmite you will either love it or hate it.
I would recommend it to psychological thriller fans.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I received THE BONES OF YOU as an ARC through NetGalley.com.
I seem to have run into a small pile of books that remind me of GONE GIRL mixed with something else--in this case, the "something else" is Alice Sebold's books. Perhaps specifically THE LOVELY BONES, but...really, all of them, a little bit.
As a student of psychology and a lover of mystery/thrillers, THE BONES OF YOU was right up my alley. Why only three stars, then? To be perfectly honest, that's entirely on me, not the author. I'm just finding, as I get older, dead children and teenagers in fiction geared toward adults are not my thing. I see enough of that kind of thing on the news, you know?
Pushing through my own issues, THE BONES OF YOU delivers a creepy tale of the dark side of human nature, the twisted ways we sometimes relate to each other, and the lengths some people go to hide their problems. It's most definitely a page-turner.
I seem to have run into a small pile of books that remind me of GONE GIRL mixed with something else--in this case, the "something else" is Alice Sebold's books. Perhaps specifically THE LOVELY BONES, but...really, all of them, a little bit.
As a student of psychology and a lover of mystery/thrillers, THE BONES OF YOU was right up my alley. Why only three stars, then? To be perfectly honest, that's entirely on me, not the author. I'm just finding, as I get older, dead children and teenagers in fiction geared toward adults are not my thing. I see enough of that kind of thing on the news, you know?
Pushing through my own issues, THE BONES OF YOU delivers a creepy tale of the dark side of human nature, the twisted ways we sometimes relate to each other, and the lengths some people go to hide their problems. It's most definitely a page-turner.
A superb, sinister debut.
As I read through the night, in a desparate attempt to find out how has killed Rosie and why, I remember a tingling disturbing running through me.
For complete review click on the link below:
http://onerightword.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/the-bones-of-you-debbie-howells.html
As I read through the night, in a desparate attempt to find out how has killed Rosie and why, I remember a tingling disturbing running through me.
For complete review click on the link below:
http://onerightword.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/the-bones-of-you-debbie-howells.html
dark
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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The Bones of You is a beautifully written novel which tells the story of teenager Rosie’s murder and the ensuing events that follow…
When Kate receives a phone call with news that Rosie Anderson is missing, she’s stunned and disturbed. Rosie is eighteen, the same age as Kate’s daughter, and a beautiful, quiet, and kind young woman. Though the locals are optimistic—girls like Rosie don’t get into real trouble—Kate’s sense of foreboding is confirmed when Rosie is found fatally beaten and stabbed.
Who would kill the perfect daughter, from the perfect family? Yet the more Kate entwines herself with the Andersons—graceful mother Jo, renowned journalist father Neal, watchful younger sister Delphine—the more she is convinced that not everything is as it seems. Anonymous notes arrive, urging Kate to unravel the tangled threads of Rosie’s life and death, though she has no idea where they will lead.
The novel flicks between two main narrators – Kate, a mother with a daughter of a similar age to Rosie, and Rosie herself, seemingly speaking from the afterlife. However Rosie actually presents some of the story from Joanna’s point of view, describing her early life and meeting her husband and then their life together before Rosie was born and when she was a little girl. The story also occasionally presents Delphine’s point of view, but only once or twice. This way you get a range of opinions and thoughts, and the reader starts to see that all is certainly not as it seems.
This is a story primarily surrounding a murder, but it’s definitely not a crime novel in my opinion. The novel focuses more on Kate and her family, firstly as an acquaintance and then a close friend of Joanna, and the family of Rosie as they deal with the aftermath.
The characters are all well developed, but some are quite mysterious and I didn’t know what to make of them- this was definitely intentional, and added to the enigma surrounding Rosie’s family. For example Joanna has definitely had a very hard life with her husband, and we don’t know how much of what she is saying is trying to conceal a less-than-perfect family life.
Though The Bones Of You may not be a fast paced story, it packs an impressive punch and kept me wondering until the end. It’s an enjoyable, intriguing story of trust and secrets which I’d highly recommend.
The Bones of You is a beautifully written novel which tells the story of teenager Rosie’s murder and the ensuing events that follow…
When Kate receives a phone call with news that Rosie Anderson is missing, she’s stunned and disturbed. Rosie is eighteen, the same age as Kate’s daughter, and a beautiful, quiet, and kind young woman. Though the locals are optimistic—girls like Rosie don’t get into real trouble—Kate’s sense of foreboding is confirmed when Rosie is found fatally beaten and stabbed.
Who would kill the perfect daughter, from the perfect family? Yet the more Kate entwines herself with the Andersons—graceful mother Jo, renowned journalist father Neal, watchful younger sister Delphine—the more she is convinced that not everything is as it seems. Anonymous notes arrive, urging Kate to unravel the tangled threads of Rosie’s life and death, though she has no idea where they will lead.
The novel flicks between two main narrators – Kate, a mother with a daughter of a similar age to Rosie, and Rosie herself, seemingly speaking from the afterlife. However Rosie actually presents some of the story from Joanna’s point of view, describing her early life and meeting her husband and then their life together before Rosie was born and when she was a little girl. The story also occasionally presents Delphine’s point of view, but only once or twice. This way you get a range of opinions and thoughts, and the reader starts to see that all is certainly not as it seems.
This is a story primarily surrounding a murder, but it’s definitely not a crime novel in my opinion. The novel focuses more on Kate and her family, firstly as an acquaintance and then a close friend of Joanna, and the family of Rosie as they deal with the aftermath.
The characters are all well developed, but some are quite mysterious and I didn’t know what to make of them- this was definitely intentional, and added to the enigma surrounding Rosie’s family. For example Joanna has definitely had a very hard life with her husband, and we don’t know how much of what she is saying is trying to conceal a less-than-perfect family life.
Though The Bones Of You may not be a fast paced story, it packs an impressive punch and kept me wondering until the end. It’s an enjoyable, intriguing story of trust and secrets which I’d highly recommend.
Episodic and boring. Just about weird rich white people again. Easily guessed the ending; no thrill to it.