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Title: Red at the BoneAuthor: Jacqueline Woodson
Published: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 196
Rating: 3/5
Summary:
With the story opening at a coming of age party for a sixteen year old girl, we unravel the stories of her parents and her grandparents, jumping back and forwards in time.
Review:
I really enjoyed this book when I read it. It was an easily read book to just sit down with and spend a few hours to get lost in.
I really like the writing style of this; it's stripped down but still lyrical. There are some sentences in here that are beautifully crafted and I like the way the story shifts between different perspectives and back and forwards in time.
I really liked getting to know our characters in here and seeing them relate to one another. There's a lot of emotion to them and unraveling their histories was fascinating. There are a lot of themes in this book, which I liked, and it doesn't feel stereotypical in the way it deals with those themes or the characters.
All that being said though, I didn't fall in love with this and to be completely honest, I don't know how memorable this really is for me. I sadly don't think this is a book I'm really going to remember in a few months.
I liked it, but I didn't love it. A lot of people do love this book though, so I think it's worth giving a go. Even if doesn't end up being memorable for you either, it's an interesting book to sit down with.
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