Monday, April 24, 2023

Silver in the Bone by Alexandra Bracken - HIGH

Silver in the Bone
by Alexandra Bracken
485 pages. Knopf BFYR/Random House Children's.  2023. $15 

Language: R (52 swears 0 'f');  Mature Content: PG (Thievery and thoughtful kissing) Violence: PG-13 (Bloody deaths) 

BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS - OPTIONAL 

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH 

17yo Tamsin Tamsin and her brother Cabell are Hollowers. Their guardian Nash left them behind after taking them on hunting trips for artifacts and now they have to make it on their own. The two of them have been trying to decipher Nash’s journal and break the cipher so they can solve the mystery of what happened to him and rescue him. Tamsin realizes the artifact they’re looking for is the Servant’s ring and believes that they need to travel to Avalon, King Arthur’s resting place, to find the ring and Nash. They find their way to Avalon in the company of prestigious Hollowers who have their own agendas falling headfirst into danger beyond anything they expected and into the unknown that will change everything. 

I love the clever humor. I enjoyed the creepiness of the unknown and the danger that follows. The mysterious tone kept me reading. The ethnicity is mixed. 

LynnDell Watson, Delta HS Librarian 

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