Not Even Bones: 1 (Market of Monsters)

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I would be freaking my mind out if I was ever in a position like that, and so I thought the novel didn't portray the horror of the situation quite accurately? It just felt like it was all well and good because that's just how the world works.

She'd never seen the sense in doing something you were afraid of. Your brain was smart — it wouldn't send your fear signals without good cause." Nita, to her initial surprise and confusion, learns over the course of the series that, contrary to what she always believed, there are things more important and forces stronger than self-preservation. After much denial, she accepts she wants Kovit with her even though she no longer "needs" him, even if she doesn't understand why. Abusive Parents: Nita's little more than a servant to her mother, who constantly terrorizes her and does her best to isolate Nita from the outside world and crush all of her aspirations and any hope she has of someday leaving. Kovit's biological mother tortured a friend of his for pain when he was a child, which triggered a series of events that led to him being taken in by the Family. He sees Henry as a father figure despite that the man treats him like a slave. By the end of Only Ashes Remain, Nita starts to realize hurting those around her is not what she wants. This shows she's gained a conscience and is less self-involved and bent on her own preservation then she was in the previous book.Interspecies Romance: Depending on your definition of "species," either one or both of the main couples fit. Ghouls feed off fresh human bodies. The condition is hereditary. There was a case where a family of Ghouls lived off fresh corpses without killing anyone. Because of this one case in the media, they are publically tolerated. The originated in the Middle east and are one of the oldest recorded species. In ancient sumerian texts they are called "gallu". I don’t know why. I loved this book. Why would I give it 4 stars? Not Even Bones was everything dark and morally grey I wanted in a book for so long. Screw 4 stars. This deserves all 5 of them. Marigold, more often called Gold, is the daughter of the head of the Family, and is shown to have an immense hate for unnaturals. As a child, she was asked to keep on eye on the online interactions of a younger member of the Family by posing as an online friend in their video game chat room. She assumed it was Matt, whom she was shown to be close to, but it is later revealed to be Kovit. The sort of paranormal abilities monsters (flesh eating, organ eating, pain eating, self-healing, glowing, vampires, chupacabras, unicorns, and everything under the sun) have were cool to read about, but not overwhelming.

Chaste Hero: Neither 17-year-old Nita nor 20-year-old Kovit have had any sort of significant physical interaction with people outside their "families," let alone sexual experience — slaving away for parents who only want to use you and stress the importance of keeping their secrets doesn’t leave much room for dating. They’re going to put a fancy blurb up here soon, but I want you all to have the fun chaotic description a book like this truly deserves, so here’s how I would pitch it: Nita wanted to look up if anyone has ever done MRI on a zannie and wrote a reserch paper over it, because she thought their neural connections must be interesting. Nita rolled her eyes as she passed. Why was there this obsession Americans had that others should learn their language to accommodate them? They were in Peru. Why didn’t those American people learn Spanish? Gory Discretion Shot: The reader doesn't get to watch Kovit torture Mirella, but Nita hears her bloodcurdling screams echo throughout the building. The same occurs when he tortures Boulder — the next time Nita sees him, Boulder's missing a front tooth.

Nita tells Kovit to remove the bullet from her shoulder. After some time, Lorenzo and Jorge return, followed by Boulder. They ask what happened to Reyes, and Kovit reveals that the guards had sold her parts to the market. Boulder, looking for revenge, tells Kovit that he plans to eat a part of Nita every day; once Kovit has cut off all her parts and she has been eaten, he will give him some freedom.