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Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
5.0

holy shit that was fucking amazing.

“There will be boys who will tell you you’re beautiful, but only a few will see you.”

“Petey read this book over and over. Not because she liked it, but because she kept waiting for the story to change, kept waiting for the day she’d turn the page and a woman would get to go to the husband store. She kept waiting for justice. But, of course, the story never changed. She never got justice. If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she would have to add: the fact that there was no justice. But The Wife Store was still on her shelf at home, if only to remind her that there were assholes in the world who would write such things, believe such things.”

“I remember looking in the mirror when I was little and thinking, Who are you supposed to be?”

“You have ruined yourself. No one will want you now.”
“Then I don’t want them,” said Roza”


That was a treat from start to finish. Bone Gap is a beautiful, well-written, magical book containing three dimensional characters and immensely strong female characters. I yep-ed so hard while reading this. 5/5 stars!