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A review by lovefromhannah
Your Blood and Bones by J. Patricia Anderson
slow-paced
2.5
Your Blood and Bones is perfect for those wanting an enigmatic, dark fantasy story about the true identity of monsters.
The main characters are shunned for their otherness. The girl was going to be killed until the boy rescued her from the place she thought she was safe. Home.
She has lost all hope of living a normal life until her rescuer mentions a cure.
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I was pretty excited for this when I saw this novella in my dashboard. Girlhood in relation to monsters is a favourite trope/sub-genre of mine so I was expecting to adore this. However, my problem lies not with the characters and the setting but with the writing. At times, I found it hard to determine what the author was referring to; other times, Anderson would spend an entire paragraph describing something with the same metaphors and descriptions. I'm all for long, elegant description but when the first and last sentence in a three sentence paragraph describe what the character is experiencing in the same way, I'm going to furrow my brows.
This author has a lot of potential and I would be interested in reading their other work. Your Blood and Bones could have done with another round of edits.
thank you to netgalley, the publisher and the author for providing me with a free e-ARC. despite this, all opinions are my own honest views.
The main characters are shunned for their otherness. The girl was going to be killed until the boy rescued her from the place she thought she was safe. Home.
She has lost all hope of living a normal life until her rescuer mentions a cure.
---
I was pretty excited for this when I saw this novella in my dashboard. Girlhood in relation to monsters is a favourite trope/sub-genre of mine so I was expecting to adore this. However, my problem lies not with the characters and the setting but with the writing. At times, I found it hard to determine what the author was referring to; other times, Anderson would spend an entire paragraph describing something with the same metaphors and descriptions. I'm all for long, elegant description but when the first and last sentence in a three sentence paragraph describe what the character is experiencing in the same way, I'm going to furrow my brows.
This author has a lot of potential and I would be interested in reading their other work. Your Blood and Bones could have done with another round of edits.
thank you to netgalley, the publisher and the author for providing me with a free e-ARC. despite this, all opinions are my own honest views.