“You fell in love with a monster. I never hid what I was or what I did. You knew it all—the only person in the world who had seen the place inside me where there should have been a soul.”
The hollow sound of a casing hitting the floor.
The clicking of heels walking in a misty alley.
The ability to tie a cherry stem with her tongue.
A haunting song no one else knows.
That's all that's left of Jane's memories.
What would you do if the life you lived was a lie, and everyone knew but you?
Where do you run when there is no one on your side?
Jane discovers that deep inside her mind there is a map.
What she doesn't know is that there is also a man who will do anything to get it.
But what he doesn't know is that Jane hasn't always been honest about the things she remembers.
There are paces inside of Jane that even she doesn't like to go.
What would you do if the secret you kept was the only thing keeping you alive?
But keeping it meant someone else had to die.
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ARC received via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review but it didn’t affect my opinion about this book.
I have never been so thoroughly mindblown in my whole life. This book had me on the edge of my bed, trying to figure out what on God's green earth was happening.
Jane Spears was a normal person living a normal life. She was working in a shop, she was dating a handsome doctor with a magic cock who loved her, flaws and all. Yes, she considered herself as the luckiest woman alive. That was until a mysterious man suddenly mistook her for another person who died six years ago. At first she shrugged it off, there were many people in the world who looked alike but weren't related at all, right? But when her curiosity won and she searched for this twin she had, Jane's world was rocked. Not only did they looked alike down to the scars, the dead person even had her cat named the same as hers.
Questions started swirling in her head and she started to look for some answers. Jane discovered that everything in her life had been a lie, even the love of the person she adored. How much is real love, and how much is lying to protect us?
If you think that the blurb covers the story, think again. It's just the tip of a ginormous iceberg. I'm pretty sure that by the time you finish reading this book, that summary above isn't going to be relevant at all. Even the preceding quote. I'm still trying to process things in my mind while writing this review. That's how big the impact of this story was for me.
“Layers are in there, in our minds. We can't always see inside the layers. We can't stop being who we are in there.”
You could hardly predict anything in this book. Just when you thought you have it all figured out, another piece comes out and bam! You're back to where you started, attempting once again to connect dots that wouldn't motherchucking connect at all.
“I need to go back to that place. That beautiful oblivion that sits there waiting for me…”
I loved how clever the characters were made. Tara Bone portrayed her heroine in a way that I could get attached with her easily and I felt myself unraveling with her, gradually getting baffled by everything that's been thrown at me. There were also times when I couldn't explain why a character did something or why s/he was acting like that. But as it turned out, it was all part of the plot.
“…You can run and you can hide, and I will chase you because we are meant to be. We are each other's light.”
Now, Derek. He made me go loco. I loved him but at the same time I found him creepy. I didn't know what to feel about him up until the end.
For countless times, the bizarreness of the story had my brain in a daze, trying to unlock every twist and turn that it had. When you thought that a character was on your side, it turns out that he was not. But so were the characters who were already on your side too. Then you find out that the former character was just doing things for your best so he was actually your ally but he's not really. So on and so forth. It's almost drove me crazy at first, but I continued reading it and it was totally worth it.
While a lot of people might be disappointed in the end, I wasn't. Not that it was a cliffhanger but there were still many questions that were left unanswered. Which ones were real and which ones were woven from her mind?
If you think this a love story, think twice or thrice. It may seem one at first but everything isn't what they seem to be in this book.
Blood and Bone is for people who are into mind games and not for those who couldn't handle eccentricity and craziness. It could confuse you when you're not really confused at all. See? I'm not making any sense at all. Like this book. Usually, I'm not fond of that theme but this book has made it quite appealing for me. Oh, and if you plan to read this? Better finish it it in one sitting.
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