REVIEW: Your Blood, My Bones

By Denise @ Life With No Plot on January 12, 2025 • ( 0 )

About the Book

Title: Your Blood, My Bones

Author: Kelly Andrew

Series: none

Genre: YA, Fantasy, Horror

Pages: 368

Edition Read: Kindle eBook

Dates Read: December 1 – 4, 2024

Blurb: Wyatt Westlock has one plan for the farmhouse she’s just inherited — to burn it to the ground. But during her final walkthrough of her childhood home, she makes a shocking discovery in the basement — Peter, the boy she once considered her best friend, strung up in chains and left for dead.

Unbeknownst to Wyatt, Peter has suffered hundreds of ritualistic deaths on her family’s property. Semi-immortal, Peter never remains dead for long, but he can’t really live, either. Not while he’s bound to the farm, locked in a cycle of grisly deaths and painful rebirths. There’s only one way for him to break free. He needs to end the Westlock line.

He needs to kill Wyatt.

With Wyatt’s parents gone, the spells protecting the property have begun to unravel, and dark, ancient forces gather in the nearby forest. The only way for Wyatt to repair the wards is to work with Peter — the one person who knows how to harness her volatile magic. But how can she trust a boy who’s sworn an oath to destroy her? When the past turns up to haunt them in the most unexpected way, they are forced to rely on one another to survive, or else tear each other apart.

Review

I knew absolutely nothing about this book going into it. I picked it up for two reasons: one, because it fit a goal on the Reindeer Readathon (which I kept up with for exactly five days and then abandoned), and two, because I still needed a book starting with Y for the A-to-Z Challenge. The readathon prompt was to read a book that was recommended either on social media or recommended on a list. I saw this on Goodreads’ list of nominees for 2024 Best YA Fantasy and figured, yep, that will do.

That all being said, I really liked this one a lot. Starting off with Wyatt, she is an interesting character, although I do question a lot of her choices. For one thing, the whole time she was at her family’s old homestead, I was inwardly yelling at her to leave. She hated that place and now she finds out that a whole lot of creepy stuff happened there and there’s still a lot of evil lurking around? Girl, RUN! I do sort of understand why she stayed though – she was trying to get to the bottom of what her family had been involved in for so long and she was trying to protect Peter.

Speaking of Peter, he was a great character. You want to talk about inner conflict? Peter has it in spades. He loves Wyatt, but at the same time feels like she needs to die in order to break the curse that is keeping him there in this cycle of life and death. He is very mysterious and definitely doesn’t give up details about himself easily. That’s what’s so fun to find out.

They have another friend, James, who had also grown up at the farm, who also returns to help them with the situation. He is also not what he seems.

A lot of this book is trying to figure out what all went down on this farm over generations, finding the evil that is brewing, and learning how to stop it. The writing is very atmospheric – you really feel immersed in the setting. I love it when books do this and Andrew does it very well. The mysteries keep you guessing right until the very end. If I had one small complaint, it would be that the ending felt a little rushed. Almost as if Andrew was going along and then realize that the book needed to end NOW. It’s still a satisfying ending, but I wanted just a little bit more. I would definitely recommend this to fantasy readers who like a touch of horror in their stories.

GoodReads rating: 4 stars