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reviewed Books & Bone by Veo Corva (Tombtown, #1)

Veo Corva: Books & Bone (2019, Witch Key Fiction) 4 stars

A Librarians-and-Necromancy Fantasy with Small Town Charm in a City of the Dead

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Incredibly written

5 stars

Books & Bone is an absolutely amazing book about a girl named Ree who lives in a necromancer city. She was the first child to grow up in Tombtown, a city for necromancers. Though she doesn't feel like one of them, she has seen what necromancy does with people, and she doesn't like that. She wants another kind of magic, thought of as fairytales.

It is just an amazing book. Every day once I started reading, it was nearly impossible to stop. There is much adventure and it is very exciting. I love the way things are written. In the end there are so much nice plot twists, I really adore that.

Tuesday I finished it. I had the book with me to school and as always I arrived half an hour too early. So I started reading. I kept reading and I had to read out aloud to prevent myself to keep able to concentrate on it, because there was a mare and more noise around me, made by all the other people waiting for school to start. Once it was time to go upstairs to the classroom, I kept sitting down for a moment, I had almost finished the book. I could simply not put it away. I took the book for a moment in one hand, slowly grabbed my bag, and continued reading. I continued reading as I walked up the stairs. Once I arrived upstairs, I had just one and a half page left to read. I read that pages as I took off my jacket and walked into the classroom. I finished it just a moment after I came to my spot in the classroom. It was really nice.