Reviews

Молчание костей by June Hur 허주은

madcru's review against another edition

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

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

kaitbeth's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

picaresquedreamer's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense 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? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism

Moderate: Child death, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Violence, Misogyny, and Religious bigotry

bekahtay19's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

bornfromtheashes's review against another edition

Was too slow for me, found myself forcing myself through the plot. The characters and writing were fine, but I just wasn't invested in the story

kifkathleen's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

megdconway's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.0

eatsleepreadcat's review against another edition

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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

kitkattom10's review against another edition

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

0.5

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Torture, and Murder

eloracookauthor's review against another edition

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!