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The Bone Weaver's Orchard by Sarah Read
5.0
“It's like the dust here is made of memory. You could wander in the past for years.”
I finished The Bone Weaver's Orchard in only a couple of days but really I read three quarters in one sitting because I could not stop flipping the pages. I absolutely had to know what was going on and how it would all end. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I loved the story, the characters, the atmosphere.
The Bone Weaver's Orchard is set in the rain and fog of the moors of England in the 1920s in a centuries old Abbey turned all boy boarding school. How could this book not be creepy?! The setting and the weather perfectly mirrored the creepiness and dread of the story. From the opening lines, Read steadily built the tension and foreboding until it was towering over you, ready to collapse like the dilapidated East Wing. It seemed everyone had a secret to hide; the teachers, the staff, the very walls themselves, and the reader, along with Charley was left grasping for the truth like grasping at the insubstantial mist.
Charley was such a sweet, lonely, misunderstood little boy and I yearned to give him a big hug. While Charley was the protagonist and main focus of The Bone Weaver's Orchard, my heart lies with Sam. I adored him with his dirt stained hands and secret past. I thought he was such a wonderful addition to the story.
I could have lived in Read's world for a hundred more pages. I am selfish and I wanted more spooky happenings, more bumps in the night, more mischief, more Old Cross! Her descriptions of the decrepit school and all its inhabitants were both horrifying yet beautiful; I didn't want them to end. But now that my time at Old Cross has come to an end I feel like I need everything Read has written and I'll be snatching up everything she continues to write.
I finished The Bone Weaver's Orchard in only a couple of days but really I read three quarters in one sitting because I could not stop flipping the pages. I absolutely had to know what was going on and how it would all end. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I loved the story, the characters, the atmosphere.
The Bone Weaver's Orchard is set in the rain and fog of the moors of England in the 1920s in a centuries old Abbey turned all boy boarding school. How could this book not be creepy?! The setting and the weather perfectly mirrored the creepiness and dread of the story. From the opening lines, Read steadily built the tension and foreboding until it was towering over you, ready to collapse like the dilapidated East Wing. It seemed everyone had a secret to hide; the teachers, the staff, the very walls themselves, and the reader, along with Charley was left grasping for the truth like grasping at the insubstantial mist.
Charley was such a sweet, lonely, misunderstood little boy and I yearned to give him a big hug. While Charley was the protagonist and main focus of The Bone Weaver's Orchard, my heart lies with Sam. I adored him with his dirt stained hands and secret past. I thought he was such a wonderful addition to the story.
I could have lived in Read's world for a hundred more pages. I am selfish and I wanted more spooky happenings, more bumps in the night, more mischief, more Old Cross! Her descriptions of the decrepit school and all its inhabitants were both horrifying yet beautiful; I didn't want them to end. But now that my time at Old Cross has come to an end I feel like I need everything Read has written and I'll be snatching up everything she continues to write.