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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
medium-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:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
What a beautiful book. Full of characters that are pure and earnest, complex and likeable. This one will stay with me for a long time.
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-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
This book was fantastic! It is magical realism at its finest. It is so rare to find a book where magic and reality are blended so seamlessly, with just enough of each to create something that is not a hybrid, but a work of art in its own right. Bone Gap managed to do just that.
We begin the story with Finn and his brother Sean, who live in the tiny, rural town of Bone Gap. One day they are joined by a girl, and another day the girl disappears. The town chooses to believe that she left of her own free will, but Finn knows that that is not what happened. He saw her being kidnapped. The only problem is that he can't describe the man who took her.
This was a quick read for me. Between the fast plot and the phenomenal characters, there was nothing that could stop me from reading until I reached the end. Ruby writes beautifully, somehow using a dreamy, indirect style to tell an incredibly powerful story. Real issues are covered, but it is done in a world that is only mostly like our own, a world where nothing quite what it seems to be, where magical horses appear randomly in barns and corn whispers to people who are willing to listen. This fantastical combination should, in theory, be impossible to blend well, but it works here perfectly.
I loved every magical, dreamy page of this book. I can only hope that I will find something like it ever again.
We begin the story with Finn and his brother Sean, who live in the tiny, rural town of Bone Gap. One day they are joined by a girl, and another day the girl disappears. The town chooses to believe that she left of her own free will, but Finn knows that that is not what happened. He saw her being kidnapped. The only problem is that he can't describe the man who took her.
This was a quick read for me. Between the fast plot and the phenomenal characters, there was nothing that could stop me from reading until I reached the end. Ruby writes beautifully, somehow using a dreamy, indirect style to tell an incredibly powerful story. Real issues are covered, but it is done in a world that is only mostly like our own, a world where nothing quite what it seems to be, where magical horses appear randomly in barns and corn whispers to people who are willing to listen. This fantastical combination should, in theory, be impossible to blend well, but it works here perfectly.
I loved every magical, dreamy page of this book. I can only hope that I will find something like it ever again.
dark
hopeful
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book was too weird for me because I didn't like the jumping around from magic and realism. The story felt disjointed to me and had too many dangling threads at the end.
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-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
What an inventive story! The magic realism is really something. Finn, our space case protagonist with faceblindness, sees the world in such a unique way that you can't help finding him endearing. There's quite a lot of commentary on outer vs inner beauty, and the folklore components were both creepy and mystical. There were so many well-explored characters beyond the protagonist, which made the town feel rich and realistic in the midst of all the magic. I really enjoyed this book, but I think I'd need to reread to catch on to some of the more obscure allusions. For example, section titles talked about different moons--milk, green corn, thunder--which I still don't understand.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Stalking, Sexual harassment
Minor: Self harm
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No