Bone Gap

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Bone Gap by Laura Ruby is a fantasy book about perspective. A main topic in the book is the difference between looking and seeing. It includes imagery of fantasy, different views of self-image, and the heavy burden that beauty can be and the detrimental ways we look at and treat women. It can be dreadfully tense and there is this feeling of anxiety that runs throughout the novel. The book is romantic when it needed, empowering where it counts, and is simply beautiful in its telling. A quality of a specific character that would be great to develop inside myself is the determination of Finn. Finn meets a young girl named Roza whom of course he falls in love with, but when Roza disappears and no one else goes to look for her Finn sets out. …show more content…
This book makes you think in a way you wouldn't with any other story. This can help students question what tone to read the book in, it may also 4uyjklhelp them question decisions in their own lives. Some students would especially like the fantasy elements of the story which may help inspire them in class to read more. A weakness that is found in the book is how it can be quite bland and uninteresting at times. The few times where it is bland and boring is when there is far too much detailing for something that could be a simple sentence. At times certain words are difficult and need to be looked up in a dictionary, yet if you can use context clues, the phrases or words are somewhat easily found out. Even so if you push on through the dull and boring a new surprise will come your way with this book. The book Bone Gap is truly an amazing book with specs of fantasy spread throughout. It leaves you questioning if the perspective you read it in is really how you were supposed to read it. The book would be fun to read in a classroom environment, and may promote creativity whilst reading. If there was a choice to give the book to a friend, this would certainly be a book to share to

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