The Bones of Ruin//Blog Tour

Thank you to Turn the Page Tours for providing me with an advanced copy of The Bones of Ruin. This is in no way shown in my review.

And another thank you to the nice lady at the bookstore who squealed with me about this book!

The Bones of Ruin is a book to get you thinking! With a passionate tightrope walker as the main character and shapeshifters for the side characters, it’s sure to pull any reader in. The writing styles of the books I’ve been reading have been very similar and fast-paced which is great for my brain. I really enjoyed the writing style in this one! It got to the point and each character had a great voice. I really loved the world building and the author made the settings come to life!

I read this book really slowly (5 pages a day slowly), which was a mistake on my part. I loved being taken into a world of carnivals and immortality, but reading it slowly messed with my head. I loved the main character, Iris! Even though I’m not immortal, she had such a realistic personality and was what I love in characters (compassionate, fierce, and unique). I also loved the other characters, but Iris was definitely my favorite. I’ve also been reading a lot of historical fantasies lately, and this definitely satisfied my need and expectations!

I fully recommend it to historical fantasy readers and people who love stories with great characters!

About the Book:

Pages: 496
Synopsis:

As an African tightrope dancer in Victorian London, Iris is used to being strange. She is certainly a strange sight for leering British audiences always eager for the spectacle of colonial curiosity. But Iris also has a secret that even “strange” doesn’t capture…​

She cannot die.

Haunted by her unnatural power and with no memories of her past, Iris is obsessed with discovering who she is. But that mission gets more complicated when she meets the dark and alluring Adam Temple, a member of a mysterious order called the Enlightenment Committee. Adam seems to know much more about her than he lets on, and he shares with her a terrifying revelation: the world is ending, and the Committee will decide who lives…and who doesn’t.

To help them choose a leader for the upcoming apocalypse, the Committee is holding the Tournament of Freaks, a macabre competition made up of vicious fighters with fantastical abilities. Adam wants Iris to be his champion, and in return he promises her the one thing she wants most: the truth about who she really is.

If Iris wants to learn about her shadowy past, she has no choice but to fight. But the further she gets in the grisly tournament, the more she begins to remember—and the more she wonders if the truth is something best left forgotten.

About the Author:

Sarah Raughley grew up in Southern Ontario writing stories about freakish little girls with powers because she secretly wanted to be one. She is a huge fangirl of anything from manga to SF/F TV to Japanese Role Playing Games, but she will swear up and down that she was inspired by ~Jane Austin~ at book signings. On top of being a YA Writer, she is currently completing a PhD in English, because the sight of blood makes her queasy (which crossed Medical School off the list).

She is represented by The Bradford Literary Agency.

So far, you can also find her on Twitter, where work ethic goes to die.

Until the next book!