Bone Gap

Bone Gap

Laura Ruby

Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps—gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever. So when young, beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren’t surprised. After all, it wasn’t the first time that someone had slipped away and left Finn and Sean O’Sullivan on their own. Just a few years before, their mother had high-tailed it to Oregon for a brand new guy, a brand new life. That’s just how things go, the people said. Who are you going to blame? Finn knows that’s not what happened with Roza. He knows she was kidnapped, ripped from the cornfields by a dangerous man whose face he cannot remember. But the searches turned up nothing, and no one believes him anymore. Not even Sean, who has more reason to find Roza than anyone, and every reason to blame Finn for letting her go. As we follow the stories of Finn, Roza, and the people of Bone Gap—their melancholy pasts, their terrifying presents, their uncertain futures—acclaimed author Laura Ruby weaves a heartbreaking tale of love and loss, magic and mystery, regret and forgiveness—a story about how the face the world sees is never the sum of who we are.


From the Forum

No posts yet

Kick off the convo with a theory, question, musing, or update

Recent Reviews

Your rating:

  • wisecraic
    Dec 16, 2024
    Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

    0
    comments 0
    Reply
  • Lobrarian
    Feb 09, 2025
    Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

    More like 3.5 stars. A bit out there and weird for me. Review for BAYA to follow.

    Bone Gap is a small town where everyone knows everyone; including all of their secrets, hopes, and drama. Brothers Finn and Sean O’Sullivan are no strangers to being the topic of choice for the town of Bone Gap. Now, instead of the talk being about their mom leaving, it is about the beautiful stranger Roza that came and then went.

    Finn has always been a little different, a little off. So when he says Roza was kidnapped no one, even his brother, believes him. He knows what he saw though, and he also knows he is the only one that can actually find Roza.

    Told from various characters’ point of view, Bone Gap is a mysterious, romantic, and adventurous read. Ruby does a great job of giving away bits and pieces of the story as readers get pulled further and further in to the world of Bone Gap and beyond. This book will not be for every reader in your library, but it will be a good read for teens that are interested in fiction that goes beyond love triangles and supernatural beings.

    0
    comments 0
    Reply
  • Booboothefool
    Mar 11, 2025
    Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

    0
    comments 0
    Reply
  • View all reviews
    Community recs if you liked this book...