thereadingoutlaw 's review for:

Spit Back the Bones by Teagan Olivia King

DID NOT FINISH: 23%

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 Too similar to the content itself, the prose on this one felt like wading through bogwater. I could see the bones of something great poking up through the surface -- the tension between Mila and the boy-who-got away; the haunted whisperings of the dead, and what they want from Mila -- but the Big Event is simultaneously too named and also kept frustratingly mysterious, and I think at the moment this book is just too slow-paced for what my brain needs to be reading. This is absolutely the swampy, creepy, slowly foreboding and densely prosed book of someone's dreams. Just not mine.  

(Thank you to NetGalley & Turner Publishing Company for an ARC copy of this book)