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The Bone Ships by RJ Barker

spoogs's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional reflective tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

proseandpurls's review

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adventurous challenging dark hopeful tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

lenenorevik's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

neilsef's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

The setting for this tale is primarily aboard ships, ships made of bones from sea dragons, which is fairly unique and a refreshing change from the more traditional settings.

This is a slow burn of a story, with the characters' personalities being slowly revealed and built up as the story progresses, the same being true of the plot, so the further you read, the more interesting it becomes.

For me, it was not a page-turner in the traditional sense, but it was a book that kept me intrigued enough to keep coming back to read a bit more, and more so the closer to the end I got.

This is a good series opener and one that has me tantalised enough to get the next book on the series to see what happens next. 

remora's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

this was pretty fun. great worldbuilding. had some real #CHILLS moments.
however i found some of the combat & ~lore~ difficult to follow + the ages of the characters didn't really come through very well but that's not an awful issue though it did bother me enough to think it worth nothing LOL

areemts1130's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

odunayo_y's review against another edition

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4.75

Alien and weird just how I like my fantasy! Peak!
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sleepy_0wl's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

bananacats's review against another edition

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adventurous

4.0

xxvaliant41xx's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75