Bone Gap

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!