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A review by thestarlesscasea
Beastly Bones by William Ritter
4.0
I just really love swimming around in this universe and getting to know these characters. I find this series to be a really lovely mix of historical fiction, supernatural fantasy, detective stories, romance, and the coming of age of sorts of Abigail at the center of all of this.
I am so glad to see more development of the relationship between my clear OTP, Abigail and Charlie, and I hope to see even more in the final two books. I also love seeing Abigail trying to reconcile all these disparate philosophies about what being a woman in this world should look like and mean, and then figure out what she actually wants from her life and who she wants to be; I wish I had had more of that in my books as a girl.
Abigail is also a super badass paleontologist, and she gets to show off some of that impressive knowledge and skill in this book, which is nice, since without showing her in her element, this series could easily run the risk of making Jackaby the intelligent one and Abigail the one living in his shadow, since this whole world of supernatural detective work is Jackaby's element and is new to Abigail (plus, he is clearly a very confident person and a man, so he will be automatically assumed to know more and be more capable than Abigail).
This series is definitely YA, and reading it won't be a challenge for adults or even for kids with high-level reading skills, but I don't think all books need to be, and this series brings me great joy as it is.
I am so glad to see more development of the relationship between my clear OTP, Abigail and Charlie, and I hope to see even more in the final two books. I also love seeing Abigail trying to reconcile all these disparate philosophies about what being a woman in this world should look like and mean, and then figure out what she actually wants from her life and who she wants to be; I wish I had had more of that in my books as a girl.
Abigail is also a super badass paleontologist, and she gets to show off some of that impressive knowledge and skill in this book, which is nice, since without showing her in her element, this series could easily run the risk of making Jackaby the intelligent one and Abigail the one living in his shadow, since this whole world of supernatural detective work is Jackaby's element and is new to Abigail (plus, he is clearly a very confident person and a man, so he will be automatically assumed to know more and be more capable than Abigail).
This series is definitely YA, and reading it won't be a challenge for adults or even for kids with high-level reading skills, but I don't think all books need to be, and this series brings me great joy as it is.