Reviews - The Silence of Bones

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The Silence of Bones

June Hur

3.76 AVERAGE

eatsleepreadcat's review

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kitkattom10's review

0.5

dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

It's a bit crap. Too chaotic. The writer thinks her audience is dumb and over explains everything like a bad sitcom. Novels aren't her medium, she has good ideas for screen but she writes them in novel form which doesn't suit. You can feel that she is writing with the purpose of the book getting optioned which makes the reading not at all enjoyable. We read this in my book club and everyone agreed that the concept was good but the execution was TERRIBLE.

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eloracookauthor's review

5.0

I had the utmost pleasure of reading this a while back and adored every word. June's writing is breathtaking, her characters pull at your heart, and her mystery is both alluring and constantly leaves you guessing!
I am so excited that others will be able to read this beautiful book as well and that someone as deserving as June gets to have her words be out in the world.
Everyone, you are doing yourself a favour by adding this book to your TBR!

katie_m_'s review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious tense

optimisticbooknerd's review

2.0

This is my bookclubs pick for May!

I found the main character very annoying as the story progressed and while it was a murder mystery novel I just didn't care. I'm not sure if it was the writing or the story itself but it was very disappointing as everyone else loves it and I didn't :(