Mads’s Reviews > The Bones Beneath My Skin > Status Update

Read chapter 15. I had to literally step away and calm down. TJ Klune likes to allude to his other books, and - wough. Ough. Usually, the effect is kind of small. A little reinforcement of a theme that's already there.

This, though? The utter dread? Discordance? Amplified by the use of multiple allusions to call back to a certain book?

The juxtaposition was nauseating, and I LOVED it.

Chapter 13. That might be the longest chapter I've ever read where I wasn't flipping to see how much longer I have to go. I was wary when I saw how long it was on the Libby reader but like... I was enamored. The whole time.

Ooh. Ooohhhohoho THAT amped up fast, and I'm grinning ear to ear for it.

I don't know if this book is going to hit quite the same way that Cerulean Sea and Whispering Door did. Or, at least, that's the comment I made before I got to the skipping rocks scene, when, yeah, I started feeling things for real.

It's a very surreal book, though.

But I really just want to know what it is about Klune's writing that does that to me.

This one feels different, tonally, than the other two series of his I've read, and I love it! All in the first chapter, I've felt sadness, peace, hot (sexy), fear, and the last line of the first chapter actually made me laugh. I think I'm in for a good time!