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The Bone Dragon
The Bone Dragon | Alexia Casale
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Evie's shattered ribs have been a secret for the last four years. Now she has found the strength to tell her adoptive parents, and the physical traces of her past are fixed - the only remaining signs a scar on her side and a fragment of bone taken home from the hospital, which her uncle Ben helps her to carve into a dragon as a sign of her strength. Soon this ivory talisman begins to come to life at night, offering wisdom and encouragement in roaming dreams of smoke and moonlight that come to feel ever more real. As Evie grows stronger there remains one problem her new parents can't fix for her: a revenge that must be taken. And it seems that the Dragon is the one to take it. This subtly unsettling novel is told from the viewpoint of a fourteen-year-old girl damaged by a past she can't talk about, in a hypnotic narrative that, while giving increasing insight, also becomes increasingly unreliable. A blend of psychological thriller and fairy tale, The Bone Dragon explores the fragile boundaries between real life and fantasy, and the darkest corners of the human mind.
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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
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Books that me go 🥺🥺🥺

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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
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🐉 🔥
Be Safe, Littens!! 🔥🐉

wanderinglynn 😂😂😂 That‘s the best thing I‘ve seen all week! 6y
julesG 😂😂😂 I need to repost this on Facebook. 6y
Centique I love it! 😂😂😂 6y
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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
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🌈 stack with 90s 🌈 haired troll doll

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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
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This lived up to its blurb! The writing is slow and lyrical, we are never in full possession of the facts as it is revealed in little pieces and this shapes how the different characters relate to each other, their ethics, their private pain. I've never enjoyed parental figures more - Evie is adopted by Paul & Amy and they are just gorgeous! As is Uncle Ben! And her school friends! ❤️ tbh, I'm gonna need to buy this one as well - I enjoyed it so.

Texreader What a cute dragon!! 8y
thegirlwiththelibrarybag @Texreader, thanks ❤️ my mum made him for me a million years ago when she was interested in pottery. 8y
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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
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I grin. 'Really? So we can get cheesecake and chips too and you'll explain to Amy why I can't eat lunch and haven't finished my French?'
Paul takes a step back, widening his eyes and forces a large gulp. 'Couldn't I just buy you a Ferrari?'

Oh! It's super reading about lovely parents! ❤️

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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
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She's sad sometimes, but that's about all I know for sure: that she understands deep, dull, constant pain. Sometimes there's that weariness in her: the knowledge that misery can just go on and on and on, getting worse and worse, and somehow you keep bending under it until you're all bowed over but you never splinter and break quite enough to escape the weight.

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The dragon sits on my hand, bluish in the moonlight, while the stereo whirrs softly in the background and the wizard Howl surrenders his heart to a falling star to give it new life as a fire demon. I would give my heart to the dragon to bring it life. I'd give it gladly to be tied so tightly to something so wonderful.

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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
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Reading on the 🚂, rather looking forward to putting my pjs on, making a cup of tea and going to sleep! It's been a long day!

LeeRHarry Ooh Metro!! 😊 8y
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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
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But I did stay. And eventually I did go back inside. And I never quite forgave myself for that.

I feel that this is going to be one of those slow reveal books 🤔

[DELETED] 1409720085 Sounds very interesting! 8y
tpixie Great passage 8y
CoffeeAndABook Whoa!! This goes straight on my TBR 😉 8y
thegirlwiththelibrarybag @emilydecato @CoffeeAndABook - so it has a slow, dreamlike quality to it ☺️ 8y
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