Wake the Bones
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3.3
Elizabeth Kilcoyne
"YA horror has found a new standard-bearer." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Dark, gripping, and gorgeous, Wake the Bones will lead you into the woods and keep you up late. As lush and sweltering as a Kentucky summer... Elizabeth Kilcoyne is a force.” - Gwenda Bond, New York Times bestselling authorThe sleepy little farm that Laurel Early grew up on has awakened. The woods are shifting, the soil is dead under her hands, and her bone pile just stood up and walked away.After dropping out of college, all she wanted was to resume her life as a tobacco hand and taxidermist and try not to think about the boy she can’t help but love. Instead, a devil from her past has returned to court her, as he did her late mother years earlier. Now, Laurel must unravel her mother’s terrifying legacy and tap into her own innate magic before her future and the fate of everyone she loves is doomed.Elizabeth Kilcoyne’s Wake the Bones is a dark, atmospheric debut about the complicated feelings that arise when the place you call home becomes hostile."Seething with shadows, summer, and uniquely southern magic, Wake the Bones is a powerful debut that captures the ache of home being a place you simultaneously love and loathe." - Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the Wolf
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Author
Elizabeth Kilcoyne
Pages
320
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published Date
2022-07-12
ISBN
1250790824 9781250790828
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"This book was so beautifully written! The author created wonderful characters that I could empathize with. As a kid who grew up in Appalachia I have had those exact same thoughts! This book was a little more romance heavy than I like, at times I felt the horror elements took a back seat to the romance. If you are someone who reads romance and want to dip your toes into the horror genre, this is the perfect read for you!"
Brooke Gross-Gilbert
"This was an interesting YA read. Has a gothic, southern romance essence. Laurel Early drops out of school and returns to work her family tobacco farm where she lives with her uncle Jay. She's joined by friends Isaac, Garrett, and Ricky; working the tobacco fields through the summer. Laurels mother Ann died on this very land they work, she was found dead at the bottom of the property well. (Thought to have been suicide) Laurel takes up an unusual hobby; collecting and working with bones;Taxidermy.<br/><br/>There's a love triangle emphasized throughout this plot, Laurel loves Garrett (wait, was it Isaac she loves?) Issac loves Garret, who maybe loves him back. Isaac kisses Garrett and then kisses Laurel."
Chrissyg
"I really appreciated this book, it has amazing writing and attention to detail. My only problem with it, is it wrapped up way too fast and it moved on to topics too quickly instead of allowing old topics time to marinate in the readers mind."
Rachel K