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A review by againanew
Near the Bone by Christina Henry
2.0
Where do I even start with this? I'm finding it hard to believe this was by the same author as Alice. It's an incredibly lazy book (seems like the author just wanted to be done with it halfway through) with no point and an abrupt ending.
There will be some SPOILERS now - The human interactions make no sense. Who finds their friend strung up in a tree, panics for approximately 2 minutes and then says okay lets go eat? Why and how does a squirrel conveniently scratch itself on a bear trap?(middle-school level writing to show the trap was poisoned - infuriating) Why does CJ keep forgetting that Mattie is a child abductee that's been severely abused for years and just talks to her like it's no biggie? Who keeps walking around in the woods after being attacked repeatedly by a monster? And is William the terminator? I have so many more but I'll stop here.
Just... wtf. This book made me angry because it started off decent. I kept thinking - oh, I bet the monster is a manifestation of Mattie's anger or something deep like that. But no, it isn't. It's just an unexplained monster that you never learn the purpose of or where it came from or why. It honestly doesn't seem to have a purpose because it just exists to climb trees (silently!! when it wants to be!!) and stack/organize bones and organs in a cave for no apparent reason. Oh, and hands hearts through windows? Again, for no reason really.
This has really turned me off of Henry. I have another of her books downloaded but ehh... I think I'll pass.
There will be some SPOILERS now - The human interactions make no sense. Who finds their friend strung up in a tree, panics for approximately 2 minutes and then says okay lets go eat? Why and how does a squirrel conveniently scratch itself on a bear trap?(middle-school level writing to show the trap was poisoned - infuriating) Why does CJ keep forgetting that Mattie is a child abductee that's been severely abused for years and just talks to her like it's no biggie? Who keeps walking around in the woods after being attacked repeatedly by a monster? And is William the terminator? I have so many more but I'll stop here.
Just... wtf. This book made me angry because it started off decent. I kept thinking - oh, I bet the monster is a manifestation of Mattie's anger or something deep like that. But no, it isn't. It's just an unexplained monster that you never learn the purpose of or where it came from or why. It honestly doesn't seem to have a purpose because it just exists to climb trees (silently!! when it wants to be!!) and stack/organize bones and organs in a cave for no apparent reason. Oh, and hands hearts through windows? Again, for no reason really.
This has really turned me off of Henry. I have another of her books downloaded but ehh... I think I'll pass.