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A review by meggallenn
Root and Bone by Jessica Raney
1.0
Thank you to NetGalley and Jessica Raney for this ARC.
I had high hopes for this book; the cover art was beautiful, the synopsis was something right up my alley as well. I really struggled with this book though. The time frame of the story was very difficult to understand, I needed a bit better understanding of the societal views and how things functioned for the story to make more sense. I found myself half way through the book struggling to make sense of most of what had happened. I figured I would push through and hopefully it was an “ah-ha” moment at the end but unfortunately the confusion remained. The novel has a heavy dialogue which often can become confusing at who is speaking to who. Finally, I just really struggled with the grammar; I understand most of it was expected and required for the accents in the book, but even the narration in a lot of points had me rereading sentences several times trying to make it click.
I had high hopes for this book; the cover art was beautiful, the synopsis was something right up my alley as well. I really struggled with this book though. The time frame of the story was very difficult to understand, I needed a bit better understanding of the societal views and how things functioned for the story to make more sense. I found myself half way through the book struggling to make sense of most of what had happened. I figured I would push through and hopefully it was an “ah-ha” moment at the end but unfortunately the confusion remained. The novel has a heavy dialogue which often can become confusing at who is speaking to who. Finally, I just really struggled with the grammar; I understand most of it was expected and required for the accents in the book, but even the narration in a lot of points had me rereading sentences several times trying to make it click.