Marrow

eBook, 355 pages

English language

Published April 16, 2015 by Tarryn Fisher.

ISBN:
9781310973284
4 stars (1 review)

In the Bone there is a house.

In the house there is a girl.

In the girl there is a darkness.

Margo is not like other girls. She lives in a derelict neighborhood called the Bone, in a cursed house, with her cursed mother, who hasn’t spoken to her in over two years. She lives her days feeling invisible. It’s not until she develops a friendship with her wheelchair-bound neighbor, Judah Grant, that things begin to change. When neighborhood girl, seven-year-old Neveah Anthony, goes missing, Judah sets out to help Margo uncover what happened to her.

4 editions

Sad, Twisted, and Deeply Psychological

4 stars

This is one of those books that grabs you from the first line, and doesn't let you go until the end.

Unfortunately, I don't have as much time to read as I once did, so I found myself frequently having to put this book down, sometimes not picking it up again until days later. But as is the mark of a fantastic book, I can tell you that every time I picked it up again, no matter how long it had been, I was right back into it!

It's got an epic feel to it. A real coming-of-age story. When we first meet Margo, she's in her mid-teens and living with her mother, and by the end, she's in her early twenties at least. She's not the most stable person, but every decision she makes, everything she does, makes perfect sense in the context of the story. Everything just... fits. …