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Book: The Bone Roses

Author: Kathryn Lee Martin

Book Series: Snow Spark Saga Book 1

Rating: 3/5

Publication Date: May 8, 2018

Genre: YA Fantasy

Recommended Age: 16+ (violence, language, gore)

Publisher: The Parliament House

Pages: 331

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Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Rags is the most feared Rustler in the world, and for good reason. When she’s not raiding the post-Yellowstone Kingdom’s established settlements for supplies to keep her frontier, Rondo, alive another day, she’s fending off witch hunt-happy villagers who want her rare blue eyes in an unmarked grave.

But when the Kingdom strikes back, kills Rags’s best friend, and sends its second-in-command to destroy Rondo in four days, Rags must make a choice: seek revenge, or save her loved ones who are trapped in a town bound for slaughter broadcast Kingdom-wide. With little more than a stolen dream to guide her, and a growing attraction to a sly Kingdom informant, Rags is about to give the Kingdom four days it’ll never forget—if the bounty on her head doesn’t get her killed first.

Review: For the most part this was a good book. The plot was intriguing and characters are interesting. The world building was also well done.

However, I got really confused with this book a lot of the time. The characters were a bit trope-y, the writing was circular, and there was no steampunk in the novel nor was it a western. Westerns are more than people who wear chaps and ride horses.

Verdict: It was ok, but that tagline lies.