Wednesday, September 25, 2019

The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke - OPTIONAL


The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke, 339 pages.  Farrar Straus Giroux (Macmillan), 2018.  $19.  

Content: Language: PG-13 (15 swears); Mature Content: PG; Violence: PG-13  

BUYING ADVISORY: HS – OPTIONAL  

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE  

Frey is a Boneless Mercy, a person who helps mercifully end people’s lives who are dying from disease or physical limitations.  She is part of a close-knit group of other Boneless Mercies, but Frey longs for a different kind of life, a life where she will be known for her heroism and bravery.  Frey convinces her other Mercies to hunt a beast that is terrorizing a village in the hopes of changing her fate.  

I was drawn to this book because of it’s fantastic cover and the premise sounded intriguing.  I was disappointed by the unfolding of the story because it was all action and plot lines with no character development.  The relationships have no depth or growth and there is a very high death count and slit throats.  

Reviewer, C Peterson.    

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