![]() It’s clearly something she was born to do, and over the course of the novel, she meets several people who are also “eaters”. ![]() We learn in the first pages of Bones & All that our protagonist, Maren, eats people. Because that should by all means be a really good hook. And while some of this is left up to reader preference, I do feel that if in your opening chapter you describe a baby devouring her babysitter whole and that doesn’t hook me, there’s a problem. I didn’t respond in any way to DeAngelis’s story, and so it bored me. It’s not really a reaction so much as a non-reaction. Mostly it was just boring.įeeling bored and/or apathetic to a text is a difficult feeling to deal with. Unfortunately, I didn’t find that Bones & All delivered on its promise. Maybe not a one of those things are exactly my favorite thing, but I was absolutely interested to see them put together, especially since certain reviewers were full of praise regarding this novel. ![]() Cannibalism, hunts for missing fathers, elements of horror. Camille DeAngelis’s paranormal coming-of-age tale, Bones & All, seems to promise a lot. ![]()
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