A deliciously dark YA horror that was impossible to put down! By the end, I was so attached to these characters, and I didn't want it to end. My heart! The pain!

This New England gothic crept under my skin and stayed there. From the slowest burning love triangle to ever catch a spark to the beast waiting beyond the edge of the garden, Your Blood, My Bones had me from the first sentence. The plot is truly unique, it's dark and magical in a feral way. There is a certain madness that flows through each of the characters that unspools into something profoundly tragic. I read it in a day and have thought about it every day since.

Thank you Netgalley and Scholastic Press for the ARC!

"Your Blood, My Bones" by Kelly Andrew is a literary masterpiece that offers a unique and captivating narrative experience by blending genres like romance, suspense, and supernatural horror. My expectations were high after reading the description and seeing the cover, and those expectations were not only met but were exceeded.

Andrew's prose is so well-written and crafted. The descriptions are rich and evocative, painting a vivid picture of the immersive world she has created that is unlike any other I have read. The novel is character-driven, with Wyatt Westlock, Peter, and James serving as compelling protagonists. Their intricately developed backstories and relatable struggles contribute to the beating heart of the narrative.

The setting and world-building are extremely well-detailed with Andrew creating an atmosphere that is both chilling and exhilarating. The palpable sense of dread is masterfully executed, making the reading experience truly unforgettable as you find yourself extremely invested in the story, which made is very difficult to put this down. The slow-burn romance between Wyatt and Peter is emotionally charged, offering a blend of anticipation, tension, and love. I absolutely love a slow-burn, and this novel definitely brought that to the table.

What sets this novel apart is its unparalleled uniqueness. The plot, rich with mystery and supernatural elements, defies conventions and explores narrative territory that is fresh and exciting. While the beginning of the book was a bit slow, I found myself on the edge of my seat once the plot started picking up and I just needed to know what was going to happen next. I definitely can’t wait to read more from Andrew.

4.5 stars
Your Blood, My Bones gave me all the feels.

It's a hauntingly beautiful story that will stick with you after finishing.
I want to keep my review simple to not give too much away. I think a reader should go in blind to fully immerse themselves in this complex story. It's a journey of love, friendship, heartbreak and loss.

That ending was heartbreaking and even though I knew what needed to happen I was still hoping for a different outcome. This is good, it means Kelly did her job well making me fall for these characters and become invested in their storyline.

I couldn't give a full 5 stars because the lyrical writing style often left me confused. I didn't know who was talking and what exactly was going on sometimes. The world-building was great, I felt the creepiness of the farm, and how chilling and sinister things in the dark can be but I'm left puzzled on the intricacies. The last quarter of the book started to drag a little bit and it seemed like we were perpetually stuck in long drawn-out scenes with nothing noteworthy happening. If the pacing was cleaned up a little bit and some details were fleshed out this would be a 5-star read for me.

Overall, I highly recommend this enthralling dark fantasy. It's unique and unlike anything I've read before.
Thank you NetGalley, Scholastic, and Kelly Andrew for the arc in exchange for an honest review.

I LOVED THIS BOOK! This was so unique from anything I had ever read before. The characters are very well developed and the plot was so well done. Definitely pick this up. You won’t regret it.

Your heart beats faster but is it because of attraction or the numerous times he's vowed to kill you?

After reading The Whispering Dark last year, and generously having been approved for the ARC of Your Blood, My Bones this year, Kelly Andrews is officially one of my favorite authors.
I've discovered that I absolutely adore YA horror and what magic Kelly weaves to create such beautifully eerie tales, I will never know. Her writing is so good, equally heart-palpitating for a number of reasons. With the gentle flutter of puppy love mixed into the heartwrenching fear of living with someone who's vowed to kill you, this book is both nostalgic for the feelings and emotions of childhood friendship and young love, as well as endless discomfort of not knowing if you're going to survive, or if you must strike before it's your turn to die.

I went into both Your Blood, My Bones, and The Whispering Dark not knowing anything and I sort of think that's a good way to enjoy this author. Her storytelling is so visceral and real in a way that is best to be absorbed without knowing much going in. I find that there's a bit of mystery (although not categorized as such) as you and the heroine slowly find out what is going on around her. Immediately enthralled by the Westlock residence, and not quite knowing what's going to happen next, this YA horror is a love story that blooms from misplaced hatred and intimate friendship. The characters go through so much confusion with themselves as well as indecisions when both their lives are on the line.

I absolutely loved this and will be picking up more of Kelly Andrew in the future! Highly recommend!

Crying, sobbing, THIS BOOK 😭 please Wyatt, Peter and James deserved everything 😭 that ending, please, I'm crying. It was so sad?? I need them 3 to have their own respective peace's (is this even a valid plural?) please (OR MAYBE Kelly can write a follow up book and give them all hea :))))))

ALSO, the Delaney, Colton, Mackenzie cameos were so wholesome!!

Me: oh this book is gonna be so wholesome coz The Whispering Dark had a wholesome ending!
Me: *scrolls back to see author's instagram post about this book months ago where she says *only one will survive*"
😭

TWs - gore, violence, death, murder

-- ty to the author, the publisher and Netgalley for an advanced copy!

First off, I think the cover of this book is so pretty, it's pretty much the reason why I picked it. I went into this blind and had no idea what it was about.

The main thing I noticed about this book is how beautifully it was written. It was lyrical enough to where it made the story and the plot feel magical without feeling pretentious. It wasn't overly descriptive to the point where it would've turned me away from the book either.

Wyatt returns to her childhood home after receiving notice that she has inherited the property. The night she left the home permanently five years ago is a memory that has remained sour to her, and it doesn't help the fact that her relationship with her father was estranged. Intending to burn the place down, she does a final walk-through of the house, gasoline canister in hand, and finds Peter, her childhood friend, locked up in the basement. The darkness that creeps into the woods does everything in its power to drive the two apart, leaving the both of them to find the trust to work with each other and make it out.

I liked how eerie the story became after Wyatt found Peter chained up. The way she left five years ago was a night and there are secrets between them that are causing friction and distrust. There's also a sense of a mystery underneath it all that kept me on my toes throughout reading this book.

I only had a few issues but doesn't overwhelm my feelings over this book (which I still thoroughly enjoyed and will be buying a physical copy on April 2nd).
- James as a character in the present tense left me with a lot of questions (his arrival, his inclusion, *that* end scene)
- Some dark entities were hard to differentiate from 'real people' until it was blatantly stated and only referred to as that after the reveal
- Peter keeping secrets the entire time and Wyatt constantly asking questions about them or in general and Peter being tight-lipped when the end was inevitable
- The ending felt a bit rushed after the fact. It almost felt like the characters were nonchalant about what had happened a mere 30 minutes before.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. There were a lot of turns and reveals parts that made me tear up and want to actually cry like a baby, I have high hopes for this book post-publication due to proper structuring and maybe updates on the story.

“Your blood,”he said wryly. “My bones. That’s what it takes to keep the dark at bay.”


Your Blood, My Bones is Kelly Andrew's sophomore novel. As much as I enjoyed The Whispering Dark, in many ways I enjoyed Your Blood, My Bones more.

YBMB is sold to us as a twisted romance about a girl who has to learn to harness her magic and the immortal boy who is destined to kill her but also knows how to help her. It's a story about loyalty, fate, and the people who see our darkest parts and love us anyway. YBMB is a very atmospheric Gothic story full of secrets and betrayal. Yet it's still full of beauty and heart. Home is where your heart is, after all.


A bevy of emotions roiled through her. Surprise. Sadness. And then, beneath it, acceptance. It made sense, in the end, that she’d never really known Peter at all. That he’d been like a dream to them both, something neither of them knew how to lay a claim to. But he’d loved her. He’d loved them both. And she loved him, too—whatever pieces of him he’d seen fit to give her. That counted for something.



I wish we had got to spend more time with James, Wyatt, and Peter together. I wish we could have seen more of Peter's past. I wish there had been a better conclusion because I want the suffering in my stories I consume to be worth it. To mean something. To have a payoff. I understand what Kelly was trying to do with the ending. If this wasn't a standalone it wouldn't have bothered me so much. But it felt like slap in the face after all the slowburn buildup that that's my takeaway from an otherwise beautiful story. I will still recommend the hell out of the book because Kelly Andrew is a talented lovely storyteller. I have preorded my own copy and plan to acquire a copy to our library. Please read Kelly's list of trigger warnings as there are quite a few.



***Thank you to Scholastic Press for providing me with a review copy. Quotes are subject to change.***

I'm always intrigued by young adult horror, but more often than not, they usually miss the mark for me. At least in my experience, they read more thriller than horror, and often fall into predictable storylines. Your Blood, My Bones, however, does something different. In it, Kelly Andrew is not afraid of taking risks. She does not shy away from writing gruesome, graphic, and utterly haunting descriptions that stick with you long after you've finished reading. Your Blood, My Bones is, without a doubt, the best young adult horror book to come out in recent years. The tension and unease are palpable, and the overall experience is nothing short of incredible.

Andrew has shown significant improvement since The Whispering Dark, and Your Blood, My Bones, takes her writing to a new level. Although the writing style can be a bit over the top at times, it is much more refined than her debut novel. The storyline is intense and engrossing, and it highlights her ability to craft a truly unique plot.

Overall, there's a lot to love in Your Blood, My Bones — whether you're a returning reader of Andrew's or a new one. I would highly recommend adding this book to your reading list and checking it out once it is released. Andrew's sophomore novel is one that I'll cherish forever, and I can't wait for what's next from her. Thank you Scholastic for an ARC in exchange for an honest review! Review will be posted on my socials closer to release date.

TW: child abuse (graphic), abuse, murder, blood, animal death, animal abuse, drowning

Shockingly and uniquely good. A sad and dark horro romance with a creepy cult, that’s not to like? Thanks for the arc

Your Blood, My Bones was a beautifully written story. It was vivid and lush. Kelly Andrew has such a gift for creating atmospheric settings. Every sentence is meaningful and completely immerses you into her worlds. I loved the melancholy horror vibes of this book and the ending wrecked me. 100% recommend to those looking for a romantic horror, which sounds ludicrous as I write it but I feel like that's the perfect description for this book. Once I started reading it I flew through it.

I would like to start off by saying thank you Netgalley and the publiser for being generous enough to lend me this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I was so excited for this book, I had high hopes for it. However, I couldn't find myself engaged enough, mainly because I personally did not prefer the writing style. This book was good but it was hard for me to get into and I really struggled to complete it.

A beautiful, delicate, and touching story that needed to be told. This book has changed my life and I now have a good book hangover. (which only happens with excellent books).

Wyatt returns home, intent on burning it (and the past down). But Pedyr is there, and quickly what should have been a simple act of wiping the slate clean becomes a complicated mess of memories, emotions, and uncovering a tangled web of magic and protection and family legacy. Your Blood, My Bones is eldritch horror, yes. But the creeping unease doesn't only come from the darkness seeping out from the creatures in the forest, it also comes from finally peeling away layers of history between three "friends" that are bound to the old farmhouse and the land that surrounds it. They had a childhood steeped in secrets that are now breaking free and setting in motion something that feels inevitable. Wyatt, Pedyr, and James are never fully honest with each other, not until it becomes too late to stop.

I devoured this book. It was dark and atmospheric and full of love that hurt. It takes curses and horror and shadowy guilds of men and uses these devices to examine growing up and leaving home and then having to come back to things not quite the same, yet eerily familiar. Old wounds are cracked open, and new ones are formed. Wyatt and Pedyr are such good foils for each other, their opposing and parallel paths keeping them at odds with one another for the entire book. This is a story that manages to tangle itself into your soul, lingering there long after the pages are done.

The easiest 5⭐, this novel is an utter triumph. And I don't say that lightly...

I've never loved a book this much that I devoured it in one sitting. The storytelling alone had me so immersed I never came up for air. I gasped, cursed and cried. I'm convinced I experienced the five stages of grief while reading and I'm still reeling days later. Truly cannot find words because WOW.

The Whispering Dark walked so this could run. This is our second foray into this eerie and atmospheric world that Kelly Andrew has cultivated; I was excited to explore it more and finally get some answers.

I was especially captivated by the overarching themes of anger and loss, whatever form it took throughout. It's an achingly beautiful story of friendship, love and redemption.

Wyatt is such a unique yet comfortingly familiar MC and a love interest has never ripped my heart out like Pedyr did. I deeply related with them both and despite how dark things got, many elements touched my heart. I can feel how much of the author's heart was in this.

It's haunting, spellbinding and masterful. To experience this world is to be enthralled by it. This is that book that I'll always yearn to experience again for the first time... A true core memory.

* Thank you NetGalley & Scholastic Press for this ARC in exchange for an honest review. *

Your Blood, My Bones is a slick, creeping horror centered around Wyatt, who has come back to the family compound following her father's death, and Peter, the boy from her childhood that she finds chained up in the basement.

There were a lot of things I liked about Your Blood, My Bones. I liked the wet, drippy atmosphere. I liked the magic, and I liked the characters. There were parts of the story where the story was a solid 5 stars for me, but there were also moments where I felt like the book was trying too hard to be lyrical, and instead drifted into confusion. I did read an ARC, so maybe certain things will be cleaned up a bit before the final version, but some descriptions were so confusing I had to reread them more than once (the skeleton in the church, iykyk) to figure out what was happening. I also feel like the actual world building could've gone a little deeper - Wyatt's family wasn't given enough page time, I think, to feel real, or to be understood. I think we could've done with more background info to really flesh it out.

With that said, I still really liked the story, and would recommend it to anyone who's into really atmospheric horrors.

Kelly Andrew’s in Your Blood, My Bones was so well written, it has me immersed in the book within the first few pages. The atmosphere of the book is chilling, which is what I like most. The romance will leave you emotional and hanging on every word. I truly enjoyed reading this book due to the uniqueness of the story.

This book had me hooked from the get-go and did not let me go!

"A seductively twisted romance about loyalty, fate, the lengths we go to his the darkest parts of ourselves...and the people who love those parts most of all."

When Wyatt gets the news that her father has passed, leaving her the owner of his homestead, she never expects to go back only to find her childhood friend Peter strung up in its basement.

She definitely isn't expecting the secrets she uncovers.

Romance meets cottage core horror in a very Midwest-gothic setting, complete with magic compacts and eldritch beasts.

I really enjoyed this book, especially once Wyatt begins to understand and accept what is happening around her. Without giving spoilers, the scene where she sees the pictures of James half in shadow? Just wow. The imagery painted by Kelly Andrew's writing is so immersive I could swear I was seeing it for myself.

4 stars!

Gripping. Emotional. Horrific - in the richest & most supernatural way. This is a story that I will not be forgetting for a long time, Andrew did a wonderful job in crafting a unique and intriguing story that you do not see in the current horror landscape.

Thank you Netgalley and Scholastic for the digital ARC!