[book] bone season
Been a while since I've wanted to write about what I'm reading. I really slacked in my reading last year so I'm making sure this year will be better in terms of catching up on titles that I've been wanting to read as well as keeping up with what books people are into lately.
Anyway, this YA novel is a few years old at this point, and it's not very remarkable. It's the first in a planned series of seven books and unless something changes in the next hundred pages, I doubt I'll be reading the sequel, even. It's set in an alternate universe where an alien race is tapping into the powers of clairvoyants ("voyants") in order to fight these scary monsters, as well as feeding on their powers to sustain them. It's an odd mix of Hunger Games, Twilight, and Maze Runner all in one.
But I think the main reason I'm not going to continue this book is because I marathoned Outlander this past weekend. Bear with me here -- so in Outlander, the last episode of season 1 has the brutal and intense scenes between Randall and Jamie. It's the most twisted take of the hurt/torture vs comfort dynamic that I've ever seen. So, in Bone Season, the main character Paige is in a similar situation with the Warden, the alien who's taken charge of her. Before watching Outlander, the events in Bone Season were kinda blah, but with the events of Randall and Jamie still fresh in my head, the situation between Paige and the Warden is actually more disturbing and discomfiting. And it's escalating! There's blood rituals and feedings and all sorts of awfulness. Hurt/comfort was never really my kink and as I get older, the more squeamish I get about it.
I dunno, we'll see. Maybe things will change once I'm closer to the end of the novel, but I highly doubt it.
Anyway, this YA novel is a few years old at this point, and it's not very remarkable. It's the first in a planned series of seven books and unless something changes in the next hundred pages, I doubt I'll be reading the sequel, even. It's set in an alternate universe where an alien race is tapping into the powers of clairvoyants ("voyants") in order to fight these scary monsters, as well as feeding on their powers to sustain them. It's an odd mix of Hunger Games, Twilight, and Maze Runner all in one.
But I think the main reason I'm not going to continue this book is because I marathoned Outlander this past weekend. Bear with me here -- so in Outlander, the last episode of season 1 has the brutal and intense scenes between Randall and Jamie. It's the most twisted take of the hurt/torture vs comfort dynamic that I've ever seen. So, in Bone Season, the main character Paige is in a similar situation with the Warden, the alien who's taken charge of her. Before watching Outlander, the events in Bone Season were kinda blah, but with the events of Randall and Jamie still fresh in my head, the situation between Paige and the Warden is actually more disturbing and discomfiting. And it's escalating! There's blood rituals and feedings and all sorts of awfulness. Hurt/comfort was never really my kink and as I get older, the more squeamish I get about it.
I dunno, we'll see. Maybe things will change once I'm closer to the end of the novel, but I highly doubt it.