![]() ![]() In fact, the Midwestern United States seems to be positively brimming with supernaturally-driven cannibals! Funny that the public doesn’t seem to be aware of it, especially since these cannibals practice their habits in the middle of crowded Walmart parking lots… (Oh yeah: it was really hard to suspend my disbelief with this one.) 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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