Rook

This book was such a great finale.
I have such a love for this series now it's unbelievable. The epilogue was just crazy, I would have NEVER guessed that Magpie was Eevie, although at first it seemed a little sloppy to put it at the end like that, I ended up kind of enjoying that very open ended "not everyone is happy" sort of thing. I would absolutely adore to see a side series about Eevie and Max, I think it would be interesting to see the aftermath of Nova and Adrian's society.
Supernova took me on an emotional ride, but now that it's over I really want to start all over again just to go through it all one more time.

4.5/5

This book has been one of my favorite books.
I had listened to this one on audio book, and it was so chilling. I really enjoy the magical realism, but I find books in those genres hard to find and Bone Gap hit all the boxes for me.
Through out the whole book you are constant lead to have this feeling that something is wrong, and that this town is hiding some things. The story revolves around two brothers, Finn and Sean, the main character being Finn. After Roza, a girl who came to live with them after she escaped for her professor who turned out to be a creepy old kidnapper , gets kidnapped everyone in the town seems to avoid her as a topic as much as they can. The town's people say that she just left, but Finn knows what actually happened to her.

The whole book revolves around Finn, and him trying to find Roza. I loved watching him and his brothers relationship grow to become better people towards each other. His brother started out as such a closed off person, and a person who held so much silent resentment. To be honest I really hated his brother, as a character, until much later on in the book. No matter what Finn had said, or did, he was just blaming it all on his condition. But as the book goes on we slowly get to see how much these brothers are hurting over their parents, and then Roza's disappearance. Roza's chapters were probably the hardest chapters for me to get through, but I absolutely loved her as a character. She had gone through so much in her life, from her time in Poland to running to American thinking life would be better only to find out that things were exactly the same here. When "Death" came for her to take her to the gaps she knew she had to get out of there as soon as she could. She was constantly fighting for her freedom, and a place where she was respected throughout this entire book I really enjoyed watching her continue to be strong. I did enjoy the idea of "The Gaps". I thought it was an interesting idea to take the places your eyes can't quite catch and give it some magic. Although I did enjoy this part of the world, I felt it was lacking in how much was known about them in the book. Nothing was really explained about the gaps, and yet somehow Finn knew how to get into them? That part didn't make the most sense to me.

Overall this book was one of my favorites, and I have been really looking forward to re-reading it at some point. Would definitely recommend this book to those who enjoy the genre of magical realism!

Percy: Protecting his friends and loving life (kind of)
Me: Ok, off to a good start.
Percy: Is a jerk
Me: deep inhale Ok, it's fine. Remember he's only 13.
Percy: Once again lowers my opinion of him
Me: Puts down the book I just- I can't with him right now.
Percy: Is once again the Percy I love
Me: Fine, I forgive you (not really but I still love you).

I did not like this book as much as Percy Jackson and the Lightning thief. Although the book itself read very quickly, the plot just seemed to drag on for a longer amount of time than the first book did. I think it functioned more as the book that sets up the rest of the books, and although it did accomplish that it was just not exactly what I was wanting from it.
Percy really got under my skin almost this whole book, and I kept trying to tell myself that he's a thirteen year old boy with the fate of Olympus in his hands, but I still found myself throwing the book quite often. The way he treated Tyson after he found out that they were brothers irked me the whole book. One moment he was saying that Tyson was one of his best friends to treating him like he was a complete nuisances, and he was constantly saying how they're not really brothers. Often throughout the book he was so much more hesitant that the first book. Hermes was giving him the opportunity to go retrieve the fleece and save camp half blood, but he was like "oh I don't know the entire time".
What really saved this book for me was definitely the development of the relationship between Percy & Annabeth, and Tyson & Percy. I enjoyed seeing them all grow closer one on one, and also as a group. Overall I am pumped to read the third book.

Once again I adored this book in the series.
I found Annabeth and Percy's relationship slightly infuriating, I just want them to talk it out!