A review by btaylorb
Boneset & Feathers by Gwendolyn Kiste

Did not finish book. Stopped at 58%.

I wanted to like this!! But after muddling through it for a few days I had to give myself permission to put it down. Theoretically this is right up my alley, and it has the makings of a good witchy folk-horror. But the writing style has this staccato, fragmentary sentence structure which, combined with the first-person POV, just does not work for me. I get the sense that it's supposed to convey urgency and tension, and you have to do that quickly in such a short novel. I feel like it would have been much more successful if it were longer and allowed to have that time to build tension by dropping hints, taking time for foreshadowing and allowing for more fleshed out descriptions of the unsettling parts.