[Informal Review] Bone Gap

*review taken from my account on Goodreads

By the time I reached Strawberry Moon (a part in the book), I was wondering if I may have a gap in my head too, the way there is a gap in Bone Gap where one can slip through and find themselves or lose themselves or trip over their lives forever. Bone Gap is one that tells about beauty, contrast, perspective, and everything that lies in between. It tells about a boy who can't look anyone in the eye, a girl who mysteriously appears in a barn, a brother who fixes things up, a girl who was called ugly, and the ever mysterious man who seemed to pass through the gaps so easily. The book was about beauty, of how it runs lives, and how those who are above it are admired by the people but becomes more of a target of danger, and how those who are below it lived to be made fun of and live to wait for the one who slips past through the physical and sees beyond the eyes. The book is about how different people with different stories and different lives stay in one place filled with holes where one can easily slip through. The book is about how one sees the world around it in all aspects, but love above all, and how this run the course of the town. The way I see it, it becomes contradicting at some point, because how can all these different people with different eyes and different perspectives all see the same? It's not only the place of Bone Gap which had holes, the people seemed to have something missing in them, and only the one with a few more screws loose, Finn (and he really did have a problem revealed), the one who could not look anyone in the eye, sees things differently. So when Finn starts saying he saw a man that moves like the corn, the beautiful girl that just appeared one day suddenly disappears, and the unattractive girl becomes liked, it's just a matter of time before Bone Gap stirs, and how the different perspectives of the people are shared and crumpled into a ball of beliefs. Bone Gap is not something that leaves the mind easily. It is filled with talking crows and talking corns. And how could one easily forget stories where there is a world beyond the fields similar to our own, but there all wonders are concocted by something treacherous? Bone Gap makes you flip pages. The reason I do not give it a full five star is because along the way, I think there may have been gaps in the story. Perhaps it was design, another thing that could render this book brilliant. Perhaps it was made that way, to fit the description with everything else. But maybe I just don't see a lot of things, maybe I'm one of the crowd in Bone Gap. Maybe I need to see things the way Finn does. I just want to see more of the world beyond the cornfield, of the man who could flip things upside down and build castles, of why Sean stays at home while the person he loves most is lost and probably needs saving, of how an old man knows about something important but kept it a secret. Bone Gap gives you holes, and in those holes, answers, but maybe within those answers, questions. Still, Bone Gap is a gem. And the prose is just beautiful.

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