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Your Blood and Bones by J. Patricia Anderson
4.0
challenging dark emotional

I received an ARC through NetGalley and the below is my honest and voluntary review.

A dream-like story of monsters and body horror. The girl had a good, comfortable life, until feathers and bones started growing out of her skin and her family turned against her to murder her in front of the town. She is saved by a boy from the village, and the two of them run away together to find a cure for their transformation.

The tone of the story is definitely dark, and there's a lot of body horror, injuries, and descriptions of dead bodies (both humans and animals). Nobody in this story has names, which was confusing at times, but it increases that dream-like feeling. I think this is all less about the plot and more about the feelings and the transformation.

I'm feeling kind of mixed about it - the lack of names really made it hard to read, although I like the concept in theory - but it's an interesting and romantic horror story, and I liked the inspiration behind it.