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librarianryan 's review for:
Wake the Bones
by Elizabeth Kilcoyne
DID NOT FINISH
dark
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I was told this was a thrilling tale of horror. Where? I didn’t see it in the 34% of the audiobook I listened to. Laurel Early grew up in a small tobacco growing town. She escaped town to attend a university in the big city of Ohio but dropped out for bad grades. In her free times she likes to taxidermy. This book took so much time in the set up. We had to find out about her friends, her hobby, her uncle, and her bones. It finally got interesting when she finds her old taxidermy castoff bones in a pool of fresh blood, but that interesting point was followed by more dullness. Then there is the car accident and chase by the weird blood and bone creature that even a gun will not stop, but now everyone thinks she is crazy and making it up. The DNF point for me was on the next meeting with the creature. The “I want to be in you, eat you, devour you from the inside.” I had to listen twice. And I was done. I love the Nine Inch Nail song, where these lyrics feel like they were taken from, but I was not enjoying this story. It wasn’t horror or thriller enough. It was boring, then it was just “Nope”.