New Release Review & Giveaway:
Ivory and Bone by Julie Eshbaugh

Ivory and Bone by Julie Eshbaugh was released on Tuesday the 7th of June, and I had the amazing opportunity to read an early copy and was so immersed in the story! I want to giveaway a signed finished copy of the book, just enter using the rafflecopter below!

 

Ivory and Bone (Ivory and Bone #1) by Julie Eshbaugh

Category: Young Adult, Fantasy, Re-telling
Publication: June 7th, 2016; HarperTeen
Purchase: Amazon

A prehistoric fantasy—with allusions to Pride and Prejudice.

Hunting, gathering, and keeping his family safe—that’s the life seventeen-year-old Kol knows. Then bold, enigmatic Mya arrives from the south with her family, and Kol is captivated. He wants her to like and trust him, but any hopes of impressing her are ruined when he makes a careless—and nearly grave—mistake. However, there’s something more to Mya’s cool disdain…a history wrought with loss that comes to light when another clan arrives. With them is Lo, an enemy from Mya’s past who Mya swears has ulterior motives.

As Kol gets to know Lo, tensions between Mya and Lo escalate until violence erupts. Faced with shattering losses, Kol is forced to question every person he’s trusted. One thing is for sure: this was a war that Mya or Lo—Kol doesn’t know which—had been planning all along.

 

Review:

[book rating=5/5]

“It’s unnerving to be in a place so dark. It’s even more unnerving to be here with you.”

I will be honest and say I have been struggling to write this review, I feel like my words are not adequately explaining the awe-inspiring words that this book deserves. I have never read anything, absolutely anything like Ivory and Bone before. I loved absolutely everything about this book! I loved the characters, the story-telling, the second person POV, and the historical…or more appropriately the prehistorical setting of this book.

I would be a liar if I didn’t mention that in my past I have hated every single second person POV book I have ever read, so I was genuinely scared to read this book, but I went into it open-minded, and after I read the prologue, I felt way more secure in my ability to read & enjoy Ivory and Bone. The prologue explained that this was going to be more of a narrative of the main character telling a girl the story of how they met. The story is woven so seamlessly and the narrative is so heartfelt, emotional and poignant. Not once did I struggle with the POV as I have in my past.

Now the book’s focus isn’t exactly romance, but technically the entire book is so romantic. The deeply emotional story had me routing for our hero, Kol to land the girl that he just can’t get out of his head. It also had some of the most romantic verses I have ever read. It was like reading poetry or someone’s love letters. Ivory and Bone was also so full of action, and vivid world building. This book was a journey, and I was deeply immersed.

I absolutely loved this book. In the YA world so many books are so similar but not Ivory and Bone; this book is a standout. I can see some people struggle with something so unique, but I can’t recommend it more. It’s brilliant, perfectly written & the most unique book I’ve read in years.

 

Giveaway:

A SIGNED finished copy of Ivory and Bone

Open to USA addresses only – so sorry, but international shipping has become too expensive and unreliable 🙁
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