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A review by sylvilel
The Bones of Ruin by Sarah Raughley
4.0
London 1884. Iris is a tightrope walker. She is African. She works in a circus. She has lost her memories and doesn’t know who she is. Oh, and she can’t die.
When a strange lord approaches her one day, it doesn’t take long before Iris is sucked into a mayhem of survival, bloodshed, camraderie and mystical powers - and a potential apocalypse.
To understand what will happen, and what her role is in all of this, Iris has to fight for her life while searching for the truth: Who is she, and what the hell does she have to to with the end of the world?
First, this book was so much more grown-up than I expected, which was a happy surprise.
The opening caught me head on, which is another thing I loved about it. This is an actual, honest to God, Victorian steampunk adventure, and I can’t find enough of those
When a strange lord approaches her one day, it doesn’t take long before Iris is sucked into a mayhem of survival, bloodshed, camraderie and mystical powers - and a potential apocalypse.
To understand what will happen, and what her role is in all of this, Iris has to fight for her life while searching for the truth: Who is she, and what the hell does she have to to with the end of the world?
First, this book was so much more grown-up than I expected, which was a happy surprise.
The opening caught me head on, which is another thing I loved about it. This is an actual, honest to God, Victorian steampunk adventure, and I can’t find enough of those