Brooks, Martha - Bone Dance

[oyceter]

See? I did actually do something outside of obsessively mainlining kdramas! (though admittedly, not much)

Alexandra Sinclair's father, whom she has never met, has just died and left her a parcel of land. Lonny LaFreniere is a bit miffed, as said parcel of land used to belong to his family. One would expect them to meet and fall in love, which they sort of do, but the book is actually more about the ghosts of the past (possibly literal).

I especially liked how the book wove in First Nations mythology; both Alex and Lonny have First Nations parents, and one of the key points in the plot is that Lonny disturbed a burial mound when he was very young. The prose is dreamlike and not always linear, and I suspect I would have liked this a lot more had I not read it looking for melodramatic crack, thanks to my recent kdrama addiction.

Withholding judgment on this, as I've really liked Brooks' works in the past and I suspect I just wasn't in the right frame of mind to read this.

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I read that years and years ago, and, oddly, had much the same reaction (although obviously not due to too many K-dramas.)

[oyceter]

Oh huh! Hey, have you ever read Brooks' Two Moons in August? I found that as a teenager and loved it, and so far haven't loved any of her other books quite as much, though I like them a lot.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I don't recall-- what was it about?

[oyceter]

It's set in the 1950s, about a girl named Sidonie whose mother recently died, and a boy named Kieran, whose parents are divorced. Sidonie's older sister is dating a Chinese doctor. There's a lot of dream ferris wheel imagery, and Sidonie nearly drowns at one point, and I remember loving the UST between her and Kieran -- they're both broken pieces rubbing against each other.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

No, but that sounds good.

Re: ferris wheels: I once read two YA novels in the same year in which pinwheels were used as memorials for dead people.

[oyceter]

I really liked it! I'd lend it to you, except I'm still trying to find a copy b/c it's OOP.

Re: pinwheels. It's like the rash of mermaid cannibals!

Er, only less cracktastic.