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A review by nikkistrover
Your Blood, My Bones by Kelly Andrew
4.0
I received an ARC of this book from Hachette AU & NZ on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ stars
No spice
A gritty, gory, complex, and utterly heart-wrenching gothic fantasy that will have your hackles raised and leave your soul aching by the end.
Kelly Andrew just ripped my heart out of my chest and buried it in a grove six feet under. I need to sit in a dark room and contemplate my life for a while, because I feel absolutely ruined by this book.
How can I begin to explain how heartbroken I am for every one of these characters?! I hope that ending was left open to interpretation the way I think it was. I’m choosing to live in denial even if it wasn’t.
I don’t think I’ve read anything quite like this book before, certainly not something that encapsulates so wonderfully that childhood adventure-time nostalgia, but wrapped in a dark twisted fantasy that rots from the inside out. I’m not sure how it managed to do both these things all at once but it just made so much sense.
The main trio of characters were perfect, I can close my eyes and picture them so vividly - how they smile, how they talk, and how they exist in space. The writing in this book and the descriptive language used was so beautiful, mixed with the cottage core vibes I was transported into a different universe. It was captured so perfectly I could feel the foliage creeping off the pages.
At times, the pace was slow and some plot points didn’t seem critical to the storyline. Some of the more action-heavy scenes were harder to decipher exactly what was happening, when the descriptive prose got in the way of plot clarity. I often had to re-read pages to figure out what had happened. This is really a minor point, and didn’t take away from the reading experience too much.
I read this not realising it was set in the same world as her other book, The Whispering Dark, with some character cameos. You definitely don’t need to have read that book to enjoy this one. A fantastic read all round!
Tropes:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ stars
No spice
He tasted like a tragedy. An end, before they’d even begun.
He didn’t hate her. He loved her so much that it was like holding his heart outside of his body.
A gritty, gory, complex, and utterly heart-wrenching gothic fantasy that will have your hackles raised and leave your soul aching by the end.
Kelly Andrew just ripped my heart out of my chest and buried it in a grove six feet under. I need to sit in a dark room and contemplate my life for a while, because I feel absolutely ruined by this book.
How can I begin to explain how heartbroken I am for every one of these characters?! I hope that ending was left open to interpretation the way I think it was. I’m choosing to live in denial even if it wasn’t.
I don’t think I’ve read anything quite like this book before, certainly not something that encapsulates so wonderfully that childhood adventure-time nostalgia, but wrapped in a dark twisted fantasy that rots from the inside out. I’m not sure how it managed to do both these things all at once but it just made so much sense.
The main trio of characters were perfect, I can close my eyes and picture them so vividly - how they smile, how they talk, and how they exist in space. The writing in this book and the descriptive language used was so beautiful, mixed with the cottage core vibes I was transported into a different universe. It was captured so perfectly I could feel the foliage creeping off the pages.
At times, the pace was slow and some plot points didn’t seem critical to the storyline. Some of the more action-heavy scenes were harder to decipher exactly what was happening, when the descriptive prose got in the way of plot clarity. I often had to re-read pages to figure out what had happened. This is really a minor point, and didn’t take away from the reading experience too much.
I read this not realising it was set in the same world as her other book, The Whispering Dark, with some character cameos. You definitely don’t need to have read that book to enjoy this one. A fantastic read all round!
Tropes: