Bone Crier’s Moon is a New York Times bestseller. This is a critically acclaimed piece of romance and macabre magic for fans of Stephanie Garber and Roshani Chokshi. The Bone Criers are the last descendants of an ancient family accused of using magic they draw from animal bones to herd the dead into the afterlife. Ailesse was prepared from birth to kill the boy she intended to love. Bastien’s father was killed by the Bone Crier, Bastien sought revenge on his father.
Here are the top 3 reviews and comments that readers love about this fascinating book.
Review 1: Bone Crier’s Moon audiobook by Susie O.
Creepy Man whisper…ewww!
The story was great overall, and I love Fiona Hardingham! However, the male narrator was TERRIBLE! He had a dreadful creepy whisper thing going on. It totally took away from the enjoyment of this book. Excuse me while I go wash out my ears…uggg!
Review 2: Bone Crier’s Moon audiobook by Aly P
Intriguing story and cool narration
The plot of this was so interesting and this read so quick! I love the idea of the Bone Crier’s, aka Leuress, that ferry souls to basically paradise or damnation. The sisterly bond between these women and especially Sabine and Ailesse, was great. I love to see women supporting each other and portrayed as strong. The world building was kind of confusing, I did not understand the difference between chained and unchained souls until I read someone’s review. There were a couple things like that, where they could have been explained better. I still don’t really get why the Leuress have to kill their amoure, maybe in the next book there will be more information.
Sabine and Ailesse were great characters. They each went through their own transformations and became stronger. I really enjoyed Sabine’s connection to their goddess and her becoming her own person. I felt like Bastien wasn’t fleshed out enough and even though we got his point of view, he felt like a side character.
I loved the audiobook and definitely recommend it. I’m excited for the sequel after that cliffhanger!
Review 3: Bone Crier’s Moon audiobook by Meredith J.
Disappointing… and a little annoying
This is the first audio book that I couldn’t finish. I got within 2 hours of the end, and I still couldn’t do it. This is significant, because I’ve listened to my share of not-so-great audio books, and usually I just space out while doing dishes until the book is over. This book is not atrocious, just disappointing for readers expecting compelling characters. It’s also a bit annoying for a few reasons.
I’ll admit I was initially drawn to this book by Charlie Bowater’s beautiful cover art, but once I read the premise, I was intrigued. I guess I was expecting a rich fantasy romance. However, I was disappointed to discover extremely flat characters and a totally lame and unconvincing central romance.
I have no clue why the main characters love each other. None at all. They meet in a tense way, as enemies, but then their feelings change for seemingly no reason whatsoever? Physical attraction, maybe? Blind acceptance of their “fated” love? I actually empathized the most with Ailesse’s romantic rival Jules, who has a real connection with male lead Bastien.
Perhaps this is unfair of me to say, but I see the author’s Mormon upbringing a lot here. As with some characters in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight, the female love rival is positioned negatively seemingly only because she is forward with her feelings and more overtly sexual (although it’s very tame here).
I liked Sabine a bit better than Ailesse, because she at first seemed to have different solutions and a different perspective from the other Bone Criers. I thought that what the other Bone Criers called immaturity was actually going to be Sabine’s superior power. In the end she “grows up” by just doing what the others do, so I guess I should’ve taken the immaturity part at face value. Speaking of which, I found the imagery of killing animals for their powers to be a bit much, which is why I was disappointed Sabine never really pursued another way of doing things.
The world building is this book’s strongest element, and it’s a shame the author wasn’t able to inhabit her rich world with rich characters.
As for the narrators’ performances, the actor portraying Bastien is maybe what really made me stop this book before the end. He delivers every line like he’s in pain, and the world is about to end. It’s almost insufferable, to the point that I feel my anxiety increase just listening to his strained delivery. Ailesse’s narrator is almost as bad – her inflection makes the character sound even more arrogant than the words themselves do. Sabine’s voice actor was the only bearable one.
Simply put, this book is just just not worth spending time or money on. There are many, many better fantasy romances out there with equally compelling worlds and much stronger characters.
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