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Bone Harvest by James Brogden

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adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Ah. What a book. I enjoyed Hekla's Children from this author but this was a miss for me. The pacing is a lil bizarre. The first 1/4 is very speedy, and I wish this would carry through the rest of the book. The final 3/4s is slow paced and takes it's time building up to the finale. I wish it was a little faster in pacing, but maybe that was just me getting bored of it halfway through.

It's very white cishet briddish author in tone. It's got plenty of irrelevant mentions of genitals and sex and violence and gore, and etc. It does fit the tone of the book, but it beats you over the head with it. Hey this deity involves violence and murder and sacrifice! But wait, it's totally feminist in that female womans are in charge! [Except that's mentioned once and hardly matters. Men tend to take charge and bully around regardless of having a female figurehead.]

I thought it was a decent horror story. It's more gorey torture porn horror than spooky ghost paranatural horror, if that makes sense. 

I wouldn't say this is particularly diverse. There is a single character that's a survivor of mental trauma. I can appreciate portraying the police in this story as authentically useless and petty.

Content warnings: 

major depictions of war, gore, unsanitary, rats, death, cannibalism, starvation, minor NSFW mentions, throat trauma, guns, murder, religion ( christianity, catholicism), scars, injuries, institutional psychiatric abuse, , some weird animal related biotruth shit, nsfw mentions of aroused genitalia, explicit sex scenes / orgy, necrophilia, gore, unsanitary, major depictions dogs, slurs against Irish Travellers, anti Rromani slurs, medium depictions of cancer, explicit murder and fire, live burial, explicit child abuse some age regression, some victim blaming, dog attacks, minor mention of missionaries, medium depictions of police, kidnapping and other things I may have missed. 

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