Ivory and Bone by Julie Eshbaugh

Ivory and Bone (Ivory and Bone, #1)

by Julie Eshbaugh

“Exquisitely written, ferocious, and haunting. Don’t miss this one!” —Sarah J. Maas, New York Times bestselling author of the Throne of Glass series

“Julie Eshbaugh is a unique new voice with talent enough for a whole team of writers. I’m still under the spell of her storytelling.”—Amie Kaufman, New York Times bestselling co-author of Illuminae and These Broken Stars

Loosely inspired by Pride and Prejudice, Ivory and Bone is an enthralling tale of high-stakes survival, blinding betrayal, and star-crossed love.

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 trust him, but any hopes of impressing her are ruined when he makes a careless—and nearly grave—mistake. What Kol doesn’t know is that underneath Mya’s cool disdain is 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 grows closer to 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.

With riveting action and illustrative prose that leaps from the page, Julie Eshbaugh will have readers mesmerized and thirsty for more…So don’t miss the sequel, Obsidian and Stars.

Reviewed by tweetybugshouse on

4 of 5 stars

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This is one of those 2016 books that your like i not sure it looks interesting but i not much for prehistoric type of books. When the book showed up in my fairy loot box i decided fate said you should give it a go. The neat thing that fairy loot does is you get paired up with someone else to read the book. Which for me is great motivation to get the book read. My partner is in Switzerland so it been fun to talk to her, and to find out she was an exchange student in Washington/Oregon area when she was in high school.

Anyway i ended up really enjoying the story, each chapter leaves you with just a enough to want to read just one more chapter to see where the story is going to go. You really get a sense of the life the characters are leading as hunter, gathers, fisherman and how desperate they are to have their clans continue. The twists that showed up in the story really helped keep you guessing as you read the story. I not sure if it was a great idea to tote it as pride and prejudice retelling but if that what it takes to get others to check out your book more power to you. It was a great read, nothing that really dragged in it i really enjoyed it.

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