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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
Looooved it!
Agonizingly heart wrenching, the story was unlike anything else. However, beware! To enjoy Bone People, you need to stay open mined, be impervious to the substantial amounts of booze, abuse and tobacco which are always mixed up with love in order and forget all the rigid grammar rules.
Agonizingly heart wrenching, the story was unlike anything else. However, beware! To enjoy Bone People, you need to stay open mined, be impervious to the substantial amounts of booze, abuse and tobacco which are always mixed up with love in order and forget all the rigid grammar rules.
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It's hard to articulate my feelings on this book. I am in love with the prose, absolutely perfect descriptions, succinct and poetic and perceptive. The author has an incredible grasp on how to extract the full potential from words. The characters are deeply human and flawed, the ending is hopeful and cathartic. But I do feel like the matter of child abuse was handled too lightly, the extreme violence passed over in a strange nauseating way, which makes it very, very difficult to enjoy the rest of the book. I think I missed a lot of the essence because I have only a passing familiarity with Aotearoa's history.
The best book I've ever read. Seriously. Gorgeous. Like no other book I have ever read.
The most hauntingly magical book I have ever read found me on a shelf in a house I moved into unexpectedly. I read it a few years later and it stays with me years after that. It's The Bone People by Kerry Hulme. The humanity and fragility and love, amid pain and violence, is so real I didn't want to let go of the characters when I arrived at the end.
The most hauntingly magical book I have ever read found me on a shelf in a house I moved into unexpectedly. I read it a few years later and it stays with me years after that. It's The Bone People by Kerry Hulme. The humanity and fragility and love, amid pain and violence, is so real I didn't want to let go of the characters when I arrived at the end.
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
I don't know how to put into sentences how it felt to read this book and the feelings it evoked in me. Below I try with words:
Difficult
Disgust
Sorrow
Hope
Confusion
Questioning
Inadequacy
It will stay with me like a thorn I cannot get out. The writing was superb but the topic and the way it was dealt with left me with a bad taste.
Difficult
Disgust
Sorrow
Hope
Confusion
Questioning
Inadequacy
It will stay with me like a thorn I cannot get out. The writing was superb but the topic and the way it was dealt with left me with a bad taste.
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
this book was very, i don’t know the right word, cathartic? it was beautifully written and i thought the setting was so well visualized in every scene.
but i just really hated the main subject matter of child abuse, i didn’t like how the other characters treated the subject, i didn’t like how it was discussed and i didn’t like the ending.
but i just really hated the main subject matter of child abuse, i didn’t like how the other characters treated the subject, i didn’t like how it was discussed and i didn’t like the ending.
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes