Amy 
young adult, fantasy
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby is a coming of age story set in small-town Illinois.
Finn’s life is fairly ho hum and it didn’t hook me. I was more interested in what was going on
with Roza, who had been kidnapped, because it seemed bizarre—it felt unreal in its oddity. But then the
story continued to move too slowly and too oddly to hold my attention. I only
kept listening because it was a book club book. I’ve read a lot of YA novels and can often
find much to enjoy about them when they are well paced and compelling. But,
this one was apparently too “young” for me. I can easily see younger folks
enjoying the characters and fantasy elements and the novel’s morals are
certainly important for young adults…beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
kindness matters, fight for what you believe in, dream, and know that not
everyone is well-intentioned so be smart. But this wasn’t my kind of novel.
The theme of not being able to identify what is real and
what is fantasy was woven throughout the characters’ interactions and the
novel’s settings and the facts that Finn and Charlie each had diagnosable sorts
of blindness strengthened that theme, albeit a bit inelegantly. Some characters chose a sort of blindness and
only saw what they wanted to see. While
others literally lived a fantasy.
Dan Bittner was a terrific voice actor with a very large
repertoire of character voices and accents. I give him an A+!
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