Not Even Bones is a book set in an alternate version of today’s world. At some point long ago, humans mutated and now have many “Unnatural” subspecies. The main character Nita and her mother are both Unnaturals and work to hunt down others like them to sell their body parts on the black market. Nita always enjoyed her job of dissecting the corpses her mother brought home, however, one day NIta’s mom brings back a living specimen, a boy named Fabricio. Amongst conflicting emotions, Nita decides to set him free so she isn’t forced to slowly cut away and sell each of his body parts, one by one, as he lives. When Nita’s mother finds out about what she did, Nita is suddenly captured and sold to the biggest and most secure black market in the world. Will she be able to escape before eventually she gets the same treatment Fabricio would have?
I greatly enjoyed reading Not even Bones. The writing style allowed the chapters to pass quickly, and helped cliffhangers become easily resolved. The characters all felt real, and dialogue flowed well. As a warning, the book contains a fair amount of blood and gore, as well as some torture.
Despite the fantastical nature of the book, many of its themes can be applied to our world. There is a lot of racism and stereotyping of certain types of unnaturals, and the book shows that a lot of that isn’t true, lessons that we could probably learn.
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