Wake the Bones

Wake the Bones by Elizabeth Kilcoyne

322 Pages

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Wednesday Books

Release Date: July 12, 2022

Fiction, Sci Fi, Fantasy, Teens, Young Adult, Magic, Farming, LGBTQIA+, Domestic Violence

Laurel Early lives on a tobacco farm with her uncle Jay. She went to one semester of college near Cincinnati, Ohio but was put on academic probation so she left. Laurel’s mother died when she was a baby, so she was raised by Jay. Her friends, Ricky, his brother Garrett, and Isaac work on the farm. Weird things are starting to happen on the farm. A devil monster made of bones forms and Laurel’s mother’s ghost comes to visit her.

The story has a quick pace, the characters are developed, and it is written in the third person point of view. The budding relationships between the characters at time cause friction among them. The writing is description, and the reader can feel the high dryness of the summer. I read this book in one sitting and I thoroughly enjoyed it.