A review by wordage
The Bone Fire by György Dragomán

adventurous mysterious reflective slow-paced

4.5

 It was so good to curl up with this old-fashioned mythic book. The allure and danger of the magic, the uncertainty of strange things that might happen at any time. There was something so nostalgic about it. It made me go buy roasted pecans from a peddler for the villager vibes. In some ways it asked how do we live with our family, who we love but may or may not have done terrible things? What do we make of that legacy that shadows us, how does one resolve our complicated simultaneous feelings of fondness and disapproval. That was really unique i thought, though ultimately inconclusive, which makes sense. 

You as a reader, just like Emma herself, are unsure how to feel about grandmothers capture until after she's rescued, You don’t know whether you’re relieved that she survived or didn’t survive until she opens her eyes, until Emma stops helping her and then she lives anyway. Then you really have to reckon with how you feel about it, now that she’s out of danger you have to wrestle with it whether she should still survive whether there’s justice in it.