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A review by booklover160
The Bone Thief by Alyson Noël, Alyson Noël
1.0
DNF 5/6 audio discs
Other than not ever connecting with ANY of the characters, there was a certain moment where I called the book dead and done to me. I will get to that in a minute.
First, let's talk about the things I liked. I really liked the world. It was interesting, fun, and fairly fleshed out. There exists a town in a world similar to ours in which we have no magic, but this town does. Quiver Hollows has rivers that flow in a loop, purple puppies, and everyone can bend spoons except for our "hero". I liked the world. That's about it.
I did like the characters, but I simply didn't care. Also the blurb spans the first like third of the book and then Grimsly dosen't really see his friends again (I haven't finished, but for now, he hasn't seen them yet). I didn't get to know them enough to care. Heck, I barely know enough about Grimsly to care. I loved Frankie, however. She has spunky and attitude and she's too precious for this world.
Onto things I didn't like (but not enough to quit): pacing is off. It's a fast, slow, fast type of pacing and in all the wrong parts. The exciting parts I felt like were too quick to appreciate, while his life at the academy was unbearably slow. Speaking of the academy, the bullying was atrocious. I could stomach it because I know that bullying is a real thing that happens and it's tragic, but they'll learn from this, right? RIGHT? I didn't stick around long enough to find out, but the bullying didn't feel like it was going to be addressed again. There is this opportunity to show how wrong and terrible bullying is, but it felt... underdeveloped.
Most of the book felt underdeveloped. The ideas are there, but it feels like a rough draft (a more polished draft, I'll give it credit) since a lot of things just seemed to fall short. (characters and plot)
So here's the thing that pushed me over the edge. I will be hiding it because A) it's a spoiler and B) animal abuse trigger: I could say a bit more, but I'm so DONE with this, I'm abandoning it. It comes out of no where too, so I can see this upsetting a lot of kiddos.
Overall, it had a good premise, but there was a part that I, personally, couldn't handle.
Other than not ever connecting with ANY of the characters, there was a certain moment where I called the book dead and done to me. I will get to that in a minute.
First, let's talk about the things I liked. I really liked the world. It was interesting, fun, and fairly fleshed out. There exists a town in a world similar to ours in which we have no magic, but this town does. Quiver Hollows has rivers that flow in a loop, purple puppies, and everyone can bend spoons except for our "hero". I liked the world. That's about it.
I did like the characters, but I simply didn't care. Also the blurb spans the first like third of the book and then Grimsly dosen't really see his friends again (I haven't finished, but for now, he hasn't seen them yet). I didn't get to know them enough to care. Heck, I barely know enough about Grimsly to care. I loved Frankie, however. She has spunky and attitude and she's too precious for this world.
Onto things I didn't like (but not enough to quit): pacing is off. It's a fast, slow, fast type of pacing and in all the wrong parts. The exciting parts I felt like were too quick to appreciate, while his life at the academy was unbearably slow. Speaking of the academy, the bullying was atrocious. I could stomach it because I know that bullying is a real thing that happens and it's tragic, but they'll learn from this, right? RIGHT? I didn't stick around long enough to find out, but the bullying didn't feel like it was going to be addressed again. There is this opportunity to show how wrong and terrible bullying is, but it felt... underdeveloped.
Most of the book felt underdeveloped. The ideas are there, but it feels like a rough draft (a more polished draft, I'll give it credit) since a lot of things just seemed to fall short. (characters and plot)
So here's the thing that pushed me over the edge. I will be hiding it because A) it's a spoiler and B) animal abuse trigger:
Spoiler
First, I don't understand why the animal bones are the ones to give Quiver Hollows it's magic. There's no explanation. Second, they are GRINDING the dead BONES to dust and EATING it. WHAT THE HECKIE? (Censoring for kids) Third, since they entirely desecrated the pet cemetery, they moved on to kidnapping and murdering baby bunnies. Because "young magic is the most potent magic". Excuse me while I barf. This is so sickening, so enraging, so utterly evil, I couldn't even stomach another word of this crap.Overall, it had a good premise, but there was a part that I, personally, couldn't handle.