I really liked Irrèelle's friends, though! Guy and Lass - I know, misfortunate name choices - but they stole the scene for me. I do really appreciate lyrical writing and this book has it but I also like dialogues, I like following the characters as they form friendships and do things and I feel like there was not so much of it.

I feel like it was too much description of the things that happened instead of letting the characters do the actual talking. Something that really was missing though was the dialogues. This doesn't mean I didn't like it but I really wanted to slap the main character multiple times for her condescending behaviour and then remembered that she's actually a child - but we don't know for sure because again, she's a product of Miss Vesper's imagination so nobody knows her exact age, not even herself. I think this book had so much more potential, I feel like it was too much Middle Grade for my likings and I think that if it was written for grown-ups, it would have been a fantastic book. The relationship between Irrèelle and her creator is horrible and that's why it reminded me so much of Frankenstein - even if it also made me think of The Addams Family because of that bloody Hand. Okay, it kinda reminds me of Frankenstein - which is one of my absolute favourite classics - a little bit but has nothing to do with it.

That's why she's alive.Īnd let me tell you, this concept is fascinating, really. Miss Vesper definitely has eclectic taste, she doesn't like sugar but fancies her tea with a teaspoon - or two - of bone dust collected from the variety of skeletons abandoned under her creepy house. The tea is not your average one, oh no no no. She has been made, not born, and is alive just to serve this horrible Miss Vesper with her tea. The Bone Garden tells the story of Irrèelle, a girl made of dust and bones. I will do my best to write this review without giving too much away because when I'm posting this I know that the book still has to come out in the UK so don't worry about that, we're good. I pushed through and survived the lack of dialogues - thing that also put me a bit off but more about it later.

I hate it when books do that, mainly because I'm scared that if I DNF it, it ends up being the most amazing book ever written. I love gothic novels and when Titan Books contacted me about The Bone Garden I was head over heels. If you know me then you know how much of a gothic fanatic I am.

The bone garden heather kassner