To that point, the wealth of material available is the definition of an abundance of riches. Moreover, this group's individual intricacies and their six-way interactions deserve to flourish. The Ice Court heist and all its complexities could span 8-10 episodes without breaking a sweat. A show devoted to the Crows only could nip that problem in the bud. Both seasons of Shadow and Bone felt breakneck for various reasons. Nothing was rushed, and nothing was wasted. Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann knew their tale needed to invest its hours into character development so the audience cared. Look at The Last of Us, which absolutely did not have filler episodes. The audience could experience a build-up, the execution, and the emotional and narrative aftermath arguably the most important aspect of storytelling and something not afforded to most Shadow and Bone characters. A Crows-centric show could let the characters, and events, breathe without the distractions of Alina and Company. Season 2's biggest hurdle and primary element necessitating adjustment is its pacing. There's plenty of material left to adapt despite Season 2 snatching pieces from the duology and combining them ala carte style - but let's put a brief pin in that. The odds, to quote another YA masterpiece, are in their favor. So, would a spin-off fix the creative missteps of Season 2? Maybe.
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But as we, like Petey, follow the stories of Finn, Roza, and the people of Bone Gap – their melancholy pasts, their terrifying presents, their uncertain futures – the truth about what happened to Roza is slowly revealed. Petey Willis, the beekeeper’s daughter, suspects that lurking behind Finn’s fearful shyness is a story worth uncovering. He knows she was taken, ripped from the cornfields by a man whose face he can’t remember. After all, it isn’t the first time someone’s slipped away and left Finn and Sean O’Sullivan on their own.įinn knows that’s not what happened with Roza. Bone Gap Laura Ruby Finn OSullivan is a seventeen year old boy left to live with the guilt of witnessing the kidnapping of one of his best friends, Roza. You can slip into the gap and never find your way out. So when young, beautiful Roza goes missing, the people of Bone Gap aren’t surprised. So many places to lose yourself, if you believe that theyre there. Įveryone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps – gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever. He’d been drawn here by the grass and the bees and the strange sensation that this was a magical place, that the bones of the world were a little looser here, double-jointed, twisting back on themselves, leaving spaces one could slip into and hide. The author writes this character so strikingly, it's a shame to me she couldn't write him a supporting story. There were times I was reading this story I kept asking myself why I was trying so hard to get into it instead of treating it as blase reading and then there would be a Mayne scene. They are who I wanted to read about darn it! It got so bad for me I actually skipped the chapters that didn't pertain to Josie and Garrett. I would be just fully immersing myself into Josie and Garrett's story and then would be rudely jerked out of their story into the other couple. The author dedicates whole chapters to the secondary couple and alternates the two stories. I became so incredibly annoyed with how the author gave dual top billing with what is suppose to be our main couple and a secondary couple, Garrett's sister who appears in previous books and the guy who starts a nasty nickname for Josie, The Scottish Sausage. This scene just made me smile because I could totally tell it was a precursor for things to come. This story begins for me when Garrett and Josie get tipsy in the Starlight room in his house and he gets her to shed her corset. So anyway I really wish it would stop being mentioned how much older Garrett is than Josie because it makes me feel icky with how much older he is than Josie. Just like the book before this one it again took until chapter seven for me to get into this story. The slippers in the story mean that everything you see and do and touch, every seed you sow, or don't sow, becomes part of your destiny. That night the old man died in his sleep. Why try to lose them? He'll never escape.' The old man laughed, and he seemed happy when he said that. 'One night when Tawfiq finished, another prisoner, a quiet dignified old man, said, 'Abu Kassem might as well build a special room for his slippers. But his every attempt to get rid of his slippers ended in disaster: when he tossed them out of his window they landed on the head of a pregnant woman who miscarried, and Abu Kassem was thrown in jail when he dropped them in the canal, the slippers choked off the main drain and caused flooding, and off Abu Kassem went to jail. At last, even he couldn't stomach the sight of them. “It was a tale well known to children all over Africa: Abu Kassem, a miserly Baghdad merchant, had held on to his battered, much repaired pair of slippers even though they were objects of derision. Now as the Ghost of Christmas Past, Holly is tasked with helping other scrooges change their ways, but this years scrooge is different from the ones before. Holly Chase our main character learned the hard way that not changing her scrooge ways would result in an afterlife she wasn’t expecting. This year’s Scrooge might change everything…Įvery year Project Scrooge picks a new Scrooge to help reform. So far, Holly’s afterlife has been miserable. Now she’s stuck working for the top-secret company Project Scrooge-as their latest Ghost of Christmas Past. They tried to convince her to mend her ways. On Christmas Eve five years ago, seventeen-year-old Holly Chase was visited by three Ghosts who showed her how selfish and spoiled she’d become. The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. 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Teig is determined to get the girl safely off the “Road of Bones” before they’re all dragged to their deaths. As the group tries to leave the town to find help, beasts start to appear from the Northern woods with the intent to kill. After their guide takes them to the north-most town off the highway, terror begins to take hold as the entire town has been deserted aside from a seemingly abandoned little girl. Teig and Prentiss decide that the docu-series to give them their big break will cover and document the ghost stories about the Kolyma Highway, a 1200-mile long highway of gravel and permafrost that stretches across Siberia. Road of Bones follows aspiring documentarians Felix “Teig” Teigland and his cameraman, Jack Prentiss, as they’re looking for a jumpstart in their film careers. Christopher Golden, known for Snowblind, his Ben Walker horror book series ( Ararat, The Pandora Room, & Red Hands), and dabbling into writing spin-off novels from various properties like Alien and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has kicked off 2022 with Road of Bones, a new folklore horror novel from St. They made reader love them, they made reader sad, they made reader angry, they made reader laugh, they made reader cry, and they made reader believe in the promise of love and home. The characters in this novel bring life and heart to this story, each with a distinct voice and personality. Every Summer After is a heartfelt novel written with compassion and hope, reconciling the past to pave a road to happiness and second chances. It’s an epic tale of family, secrets, loss, marriage, betrayal, friendships, laughter, and regrets. She is a true storyteller, and Every Summer After is her best book. “Every Summer After” is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own. 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