The Bone Harp

Pros

• The Bone Harp by Victoria Goddard for a heavy 'feels' story, but perhaps is much less creative on the worldbuilding front. It's in conversation with tolkien, about the hero who vanquished the dark one.
• The first chapter was a slog and I thought 'Here we go again. Another bad book I'm goingb to have to force my way through.' Reader, I was very wrong. I loved thus book. Yes, it has flaws. Yes, I could guess where it was going, but I rea...
• I really loved this book! I agree that Klara parts felt bit... clunky, idk. but it still captivated me!
• The Bone Harp is one of those rare books that fit inside me like a puzzle piece. I inadvertently stumbled upon the kind of book I’ve been trying to find for over a decade, mixed with one of my favourite tropes. Even if it has flaws, how...
• Here are my favorite reads from this year's challenge (only includes books not on my TBR prior to the challenge): * The Bone Harp by Victoria Goddard

Cons

• The first chapter is written extremely repetitively in a very clumsy way. I know it’s done that way because Tamsin himself is still extremely disoriented, but the skill required to pull it off gracefully is simply not there. And Klara is...
• Parent context: [The Bone Harp] by Victoria Goddard - I love her Nine Worlds books, but I did not love this one. The prose is slightly unbearable Reply: I also found the writing in The Bone Harp to be...a lot.
• I think I liked it more than you overall, but I also found the writing in The Bone Harp to be...a lot.
• I love her Nine Worlds books, but I did not love this one. The prose is slightly unbearable and it leans very heavily on an internal mythos that doesn't precisely make sense to me.