Overall, I highly recommend this quick and queasy - see what I did there? ba-dum-TSS - read.

There’s a level of distance in the prose, like she’s holding us all at an arm’s length. On top of all that, the book vaguely hints that “eaters” are paranormal, which I thought added a cool (and mysterious) layer to it all.Īlthough part of me yearned for DeAngelis to get into all the gory details of how and why Maren and others around the country suffer from this particular affliction, I actually ended up being a fan of her restraint. She has some major (and majorly gross) ups and downs along the way, involving potential love interests, a bone-chilling nemesis, and the pain that always goes hand-in-hand with finding your true self. Thus Maren is left to begin a journey to find the father she never met and hopefully get some answers as to why she is the way she is. And she just so happens to eat a few people along the way. The literal growing pains of adolescence.īut mainly, yeah, it’s about Maren eating people.īecause of her, uh, affliction, let’s call it, Maren’s mom abandons her the day after her sixteenth birthday, having tired of needing to uproot them every few months because her daughter can’t control her primal, cannibalistic urges. Most of the story follows Maren on a quest to figure out why she is like the way she is. It’s a visceral display of cannibalism, sure, but it’s also a (kind of camp?) way to tap right into that feeling of being a teenager when you allow your emotions to overwhelm you, to drive you so out of control that you lose yourself. It isn't a horror film or a comedy, it's a sincere, sweet indie road movie that happens to feature bloodthirsty serial killers ie, it's. As in, anytime someone shows even the slightest hint of affection towards her (specifically guys her age), she can’t stop herself from tearing the flesh from their bones and devouring them whole. But soon Bones & All becomes entirely straight-faced.

And by “eater” I mean that she literally eats people (yes, people) who possess a very specific personality trait - they have to like her. The story follows 16-year-old “eater” Maren Yearly. Bones and All is a 2022 romantic horror film directed by Luca Guadagnino from a screenplay by David Kajganich, based on the 2015 novel Bones & All by Camille DeAngelis.

Bones and all book review