This sets off a chain of events that plunges Nita further into the black market world, only this time as a commodity rather than a supplier. After Nita comes up against one hard and fast moral line she won’t cross-slicing pieces from a live specimen, a boy-she defies her cruel mother, who doesn’t take disobedience lightly. Nita, herself a self-healing unnatural, has the grim task of dissecting the corpses, though she likes it just fine. In Peru, 17-year-old Nita’s mother hunts and kills “unnaturals,” supernatural beings who coexist with humans, and her father sells their body parts online. Need more book suggestions? If Not Only Bones sounds good, you might also like other young adult books discussed on The Winged Pen.Author Schaeffer debuts with a dark fantasy tale of survival. I requested an advanced reader copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. You can check it out on Goodreads or order from IndieBound, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble. Not Even Bones will be released on September 4th. It keeps the turning pages until it finally reveals Nita’s fate. Not Even Bones takes the reader into an fascinating and disturbing fantasy world that forces them to think closely about the way we categorize people, and whether it’s fair or inherently prejudiced. Why not cut them up, they’re already dead? But is it? And fear, once she comes to understand the part she plays in the dangerous black market for supernatural body parts, of who and what she is. She learned at an early age to keep her mouth shut to avoid betraying her family’s dark secrets.
Fear of her mother, who brings home the corpses Nita dissects. What would you do to escape? What lines would you cross? What if your body parts were about to be sold off to the highest bidder. But what makes this book a stand-out is the way it raises gruesome “what if’s” and holds up a mirror to the reader’s face. I learned more than I need to know about the disassembly of human anatomy, and it was fascinating. This book met all my expectations! DON’T read this book while eating a nice meal, especially the bits about dissection. Now on the other side of the bars, if she wants to escape, Nita must ask herself if she’s willing to become the worst kind of monster.
But when she decides to save her mother’s victim, she ends up sold in his place-because Nita herself isn’t exactly “human.” She has the ability to alter her biology, a talent that is priceless on the black market. Nita just dissects the bodies after they’ve been “acquired.” Until her mom brings home a live specimen and Nita decides she wants out dissecting a scared teenage boy is a step too far. Nita doesn’t murder supernatural beings and sell their body parts on the internet-her mother does that.
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