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allivenger's review
3.0
I really wanted to like this book. The idea and pretense were so interesting and the magic system also seemed cool. But the story itself was rough and I found myself not really wanting to finish it. Because overall it just didn't hold my interest.
Ailesse is determined to complete her trials and become a Bone Crier, ferriers who protect the living from the ghosts of the dead. And Bastien is determined to kill the very Bone Criers who killed his father. So on the night of her final trial Ailesse summons her true love, only for her true love to be the very boy determined to kill her before she kills him. Interwoven in this story is family secrets, found family, and two gods who's end game is unknown.
The magic system in this is one of the more unique magic systems I have come across. Bone Criers derive magic from the bone of animals they kill. But the rest of the story was filled with petty juvenile jealousy and just bad plot points. Sabine's storyline let us see the internal workings of the Bone Criers while Ailesse was abducted. But the underlying jealousy Ailesse has at the end for Sabine just didn't make sense when both girls couldn't stop trying to get back to the other. The borderline insta-love between Ailesse and Bastien made less and less sense the longer the story went on as well when it was obvious he is in love with Jules.
Overall I am not finishing this series. I read the reviews for the next book and if I have to deal with petty jealousy for another book I will lose my mind. I get that this is a YA book, but you can write YA without making fifteen love triangles and jealousy between girls over a boy.
Ailesse is determined to complete her trials and become a Bone Crier, ferriers who protect the living from the ghosts of the dead. And Bastien is determined to kill the very Bone Criers who killed his father. So on the night of her final trial Ailesse summons her true love, only for her true love to be the very boy determined to kill her before she kills him. Interwoven in this story is family secrets, found family, and two gods who's end game is unknown.
The magic system in this is one of the more unique magic systems I have come across. Bone Criers derive magic from the bone of animals they kill. But the rest of the story was filled with petty juvenile jealousy and just bad plot points. Sabine's storyline let us see the internal workings of the Bone Criers while Ailesse was abducted. But the underlying jealousy Ailesse has at the end for Sabine just didn't make sense when both girls couldn't stop trying to get back to the other. The borderline insta-love between Ailesse and Bastien made less and less sense the longer the story went on as well when it was obvious he is in love with Jules.
Overall I am not finishing this series. I read the reviews for the next book and if I have to deal with petty jealousy for another book I will lose my mind. I get that this is a YA book, but you can write YA without making fifteen love triangles and jealousy between girls over a boy.
jasminelilymae's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
shes_book_obsessed's review
4.0
Bone Crier’s Moon
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
What a book! The world building was absolutely amazing✨ These myths about Bone crier’s and their gods, beliefs and Light fits my aesthetic too well
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
What a book! The world building was absolutely amazing✨ These myths about Bone crier’s and their gods, beliefs and Light fits my aesthetic too well
galaii99's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.75
jo_reads_'s review
2.0
I've recently found myself leaning towards romantic comedy books, although this was a good break to get back into some fantasy. Bone Crier's Moon was a unique novel with so many impressive aspects, such as the concept of death magic and the incorporation of mythology throughout. I have been debating whether I feel the book is worth 3 stars or 2. While I think that the originality of this novel had so much potential, the lack of character personality and growth took away a significant aspect of this novel.
The novel surrounds Aileese, who was on a mission to kill a boy said to be her soul mate in order to join the other Bone Criers. I felt that the novel made Aileese's goal her personality and took away from being able to connect with her. The same goes for Bastien; his mission was to get revenge on the Bone Criers for killing his father. Besides his mission and being a thief, he had no character development. I'm still in shock from the ending as I was just beginning to get a glimpse of the characters, and while I know this is a duology, I felt like I didn't know the characters enough for it to be over.
I had high hopes for this novel and wanted it to be everything I heard of it being, but it just wasn't for me. I don't think I will be reading the second book in the series.
The novel surrounds Aileese, who was on a mission to kill a boy said to be her soul mate in order to join the other Bone Criers. I felt that the novel made Aileese's goal her personality and took away from being able to connect with her. The same goes for Bastien; his mission was to get revenge on the Bone Criers for killing his father. Besides his mission and being a thief, he had no character development. I'm still in shock from the ending as I was just beginning to get a glimpse of the characters, and while I know this is a duology, I felt like I didn't know the characters enough for it to be over.
I had high hopes for this novel and wanted it to be everything I heard of it being, but it just wasn't for me. I don't think I will be reading the second book in the series.
zaiiify's review
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
kaylamck's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
crosswarrior7's review against another edition
3.0
This was my April Owlcrate Book. First Owlcrate book I ever got, actually. And at a 3.5 star rating from me, it was a pretty enjoyable first!
Bone Criers as a concept are really cool. They train their entire lives to ferry the dead to the afterlife, so a sort of different take on reapers. Reapers are awesome, taking your own spin on something is awesome, so yeah, they're pretty awesome! They get their powers from different animals by killing (so yes, there are animal killings in this show) them and being imbued by their "grace" after they take one of their bones. Overall, really cool, but with the downside of, well... They have to kill their soulmate before they can become a ferrier (one who ferries the dead to the afterlife).
We don't get much of a look at the actual world, which is original but French based, but we get mentions of the royal system, a war, and the town. Most of the world building is focused on the Bone Crier system and their gods. It almost feels more like an Urban Fantasy set in the past because the rest of the world is so... just accept as there. So even if you're not a fan of high fantasy but prefer historical/modern fantasy (just real world fantasy in general), this is still enjoyable.
Which is perfectly fine since, as I've said, I love the entire Bone Crier system.
As for the characters, they're a very nice balance to play off each other. Ailesse is the perfect Bone Crier to everyone but her mother, who always seems to judge her. Sabine is the farthest from perfect, not really possessing the normal Bone Crier strengths and having an aversion to killing, human or animal. Bastien is a human hurt by Bone Criers, a skilled orphan thief, and intent on killing a Bone Crier.
Bet you can't guess who he chooses to try and kill.
There are a lot of side characters who are enjoyable. My favorite one was one of Bastien's friends.
Although I like the characters, I can say that sometimes there being three PoVs felt... Weird. I felt like Bastien's was underutilized because he was the human who didn't understand the great issues going on for the Bone Crier's. After a certain point, he felt like he was rarely used because all the interesting stuff was being unveiled from Ailesse's or Sabine's PoV. The stuff was really interesting and I always found myself shifting between who I wanted to get back to. So yes, my biggest complain about the three different PoVs is that by the second half of the book, Bastien's felt like it carried too little weight.
Writing was good. nothing special, but I still enjoyed it. Some complain about the random French words, but it gave the sense of culture behind the Bone Crier's for me.
I enjoyed the plot. It was this enjoyable mixture of hidden magical world, rescue mission, unfolding of a secret plot, enemies-to-lovers type plot. Nothing overly original, but it was executed in a very enjoyable way. I always felt like I was getting hints to connect the dots with the grand scheme that connected the entire plot, but I never had the full picture, which made me eager to have it unfold.
Biggest complaint plot wise would be the enemies to lovers aspect. I loved it for the most part, but do you see that -to- between enemies and lovers? That part felt like we just... Time jumped right over it. They were enemies, we got a hint there was a "to", then they were growing feelings for each other.
Would recommend to people, but not vehemently recommend, and would probably never reread.
Bone Criers as a concept are really cool. They train their entire lives to ferry the dead to the afterlife, so a sort of different take on reapers. Reapers are awesome, taking your own spin on something is awesome, so yeah, they're pretty awesome! They get their powers from different animals by killing (so yes, there are animal killings in this show) them and being imbued by their "grace" after they take one of their bones. Overall, really cool, but with the downside of, well... They have to kill their soulmate before they can become a ferrier (one who ferries the dead to the afterlife).
We don't get much of a look at the actual world, which is original but French based, but we get mentions of the royal system, a war, and the town. Most of the world building is focused on the Bone Crier system and their gods. It almost feels more like an Urban Fantasy set in the past because the rest of the world is so... just accept as there. So even if you're not a fan of high fantasy but prefer historical/modern fantasy (just real world fantasy in general), this is still enjoyable.
Which is perfectly fine since, as I've said, I love the entire Bone Crier system.
As for the characters, they're a very nice balance to play off each other. Ailesse is the perfect Bone Crier to everyone but her mother, who always seems to judge her. Sabine is the farthest from perfect, not really possessing the normal Bone Crier strengths and having an aversion to killing, human or animal. Bastien is a human hurt by Bone Criers, a skilled orphan thief, and intent on killing a Bone Crier.
Bet you can't guess who he chooses to try and kill.
There are a lot of side characters who are enjoyable. My favorite one was one of Bastien's friends.
Although I like the characters, I can say that sometimes there being three PoVs felt... Weird. I felt like Bastien's was underutilized because he was the human who didn't understand the great issues going on for the Bone Crier's. After a certain point, he felt like he was rarely used because all the interesting stuff was being unveiled from Ailesse's or Sabine's PoV. The stuff was really interesting and I always found myself shifting between who I wanted to get back to. So yes, my biggest complain about the three different PoVs is that by the second half of the book, Bastien's felt like it carried too little weight.
Writing was good. nothing special, but I still enjoyed it. Some complain about the random French words, but it gave the sense of culture behind the Bone Crier's for me.
I enjoyed the plot. It was this enjoyable mixture of hidden magical world, rescue mission, unfolding of a secret plot, enemies-to-lovers type plot. Nothing overly original, but it was executed in a very enjoyable way. I always felt like I was getting hints to connect the dots with the grand scheme that connected the entire plot, but I never had the full picture, which made me eager to have it unfold.
Biggest complaint plot wise would be the enemies to lovers aspect. I loved it for the most part, but do you see that -to- between enemies and lovers? That part felt like we just... Time jumped right over it. They were enemies, we got a hint there was a "to", then they were growing feelings for each other.
Would recommend to people, but not vehemently recommend, and would probably never reread.
issianne's review
3.0
Sabine, I'm sorry, girl, but your chapters were boring. This book went straight from intense enemies to lovers almost instantly. Wanted to like this more than I did—I mean look at the cover(!!!!).