I really enjoyed this read! I don’t read too many YA romances but this definitely delivered! There was tension, I loved all three of the main characters, and I loved how the plot came together in the end!

I had a hard time with the writing style and structure. I think it just wasn’t a good fit for me and because of it, I found myself wanting to just read one chapter at a time and then move onto something else.

However, I loved the plot and the storyline especially the dynamics between Wyatt, Peter, and Jamie! And I really enjoyed the world building and magic structure as well.

Overall, I highly recommend this book if you’re looking for a Cottagecore horror with romance, magic, and a friend group you won’t stop thinking about!

YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES, by Kelly Andrew, is a genre-blended masterpiece of literature, in my opinion. It combines horror, supernatural, slow burn/emotional romance, "found family" friendships, fantasy, and everything in between.

It is also, quite possibly, my favorite read of the year.

We have our main characters Wyatt, James, and Peter--friends together every summer at Wyatt's family home, until Wyatt's mom takes her away. Five years later, now eighteen, she returns to burn the place to the ground after hearing of her father's sudden death. The anger and hurt inside of her from losing her friends--never hearing from them after she was taken to her Aunt's--the only thing driving her forward.

Until she finds Peter chained to the walls in the basement. Peter has died many, many times, and been brought back again to this place. Only the death of Wyatt could end the cycle.

At this point, my emotions were so heightened that nothing could tear me away from this novel! When the third of their group, James, comes back, we start learning about all the secrets kept from them, and those that each of them kept to themselves. Three parts of a whole, is what they were to each other, and I don't believe I've read about a bond as PERFECT as this was for these characters. Each one felt real, alive and full of every emotion possible. While the story was devastatingly brutal, it felt so substantial that there could have been no other way to tell it.

The writing was phenomenal! I will be buying every book Kelly Andrew puts her name on from this point forward. I loved, cried, and felt every emotion conveyed. This is a book that will stay with you forever, and that's the highest compliment I can give an author.

Highly recommended.

*I received an arc from Netgalley and the publishers. All opinions are completely my own. After reading this, I immediately ordered a physical copy to keep on my shelves.*

wow what a crazy ride this was, with a creepy vibe and elements of magic, but so beautiful, even though I sobbed like a baby, I loved every second of it. It is a horror story, unique, different, it is a direct punch to the heart, I can't stop thinking about it. UNPUTDOWNABLE

I’ve been waiting for Your Blood, My Bones since I finished The Whispering Dark soon after it was published and YBMB didn’t disappoint!!

While still being in the same world as The Whispering Dark (loved the character cameos!!), Your Blood, My Bones was really different, felt completely unique, and I never knew what to expect as I turned the page. The writing felt effortless to read, and was so vividly written I found myself unable to read it right before bed as I felt immersed in the creepiness of the world (I’m a wimp haha)!

Your Blood, My Bones made me feel, it made me cry, and it stretched my imagination and left me wondering and thinking, and I really hope Kelly plans to write more standalone in this world, because I just plain need more!!

Thank you so much for gifted the ARC to read and review I Read Ya, Colored Pages Book Tours, NetGalley and author Kelly Andrew. I really loved it and all my thoughts are mine.

A wonderful read. Thankful that the YA crowd is getting on board with gothic novels. This was fantastic. Thank you!

Thank you to Netgalley and Scholastic for providing me with this eARC in exchange for an honest review!

I really wanted to love this but it just wasn't for me.

Kelly Andrew's debut, The Whispering Dark, had a premise that sounded fantastic to me, but ended up falling flat. When I saw she had a sophomore novel, I was really excited to give her a second chance. Unfortunately, I don't think she's the author for me. But, despite me not loving this book, I do think it will have its audience and some people will eat this book up. It is wonderfully atmospheric and made me feel like I was in a horror video game, in the best way. It does horror really well and has you on the edge of your seat, but doesn't make you too uncomfortable. For me, however, it was just a bit slow and hard to get into. I had a hard time getting myself to sit down and read for more than a couple pages of a time, and found myself not wanting to reach for it.

I implore you to give this one a go if it sounds like it's up your alley, but if you have a hard time with slower books, this one might be a skip.

Kelly has the ability to evoke visceral reactions with only her words, and I love it! I felt deep sadness and real fear. And so much more in between. What a wild and dangerous ride this was.

I read this weeks ago and I'm still thinking about it. TBH I didn't love Kelly Andrew's debut, but she really grew as a writer and it shows in her sophomore novel. There are still a few places where I was totally lost and thought that things didn't add up, but they weren't as critical to the plot and I was just swept away by the prose and the relationships. I loved Wyatt and Peter! I can't call this a romance for *reasons* but it's the angsty love story of my dreams. Plus truly creepy horror elements make me recommend this in a heartbeat!

This was everything I wanted it to be and more. Chockful of the type of obsessive relationships that thrive in the heat of childhood summers, thrown atop the burning pyre of unexplainable magic. Our main characters are so easy to fall in love with, and watching them stumble and struggle their way out of a situation that none of them had any control over was incredibly rewarding. The prose in this was also amazing, it fit the sweltering oppressive feel of the setting perfectly, and the ending broke my heart.

This was an interesting story. It was very unique from anything else I've ever read. The author does a great job with the flashbacks to the characters childhoods.

Thanks to NetGalley for providing an eARC of Your Blood, My Bones. Keep reading for my honest review.

3.5/5 stars

Your Blood, My Bones is a dark story full of cults, human sacrifices, and all the things that go bump in the dark.

I wanted to love it, part of me DOES love it. I think it has so much potential. It has similar vibes to Starling House, but with a little less "big corporations are killing us all" and more "eldritch horrors will take advantage of your pain".

My biggest issue is the lack of actual magic system in place or any explanation for things. Wyatt is the most powerful witch in hundreds of years? Cool but what does this even entail? An "eldritch horror be-gone" inhaler is a thing? But you know, results may vary. And you can't just tell me there are worse things that will come through this mouth of hell and then never follow through on this.

Did I cry over Pedyr and the fact that his fate was sealed from the beginning of his life? Absolutely. How could I not?

A huge thank you to NetGalley and Scholastic for the eARC in exchange for a review!

This book was utterly fantastic! I could see how it could not be some people's cup of tea but I really liked it. Gothic, dark, vibes with thrills throughout. I loved Kelly Andrew's writing and the pacing was great from start to finish. The anxiety I had while finishing it - I HAD to know what was going to happen.

I thought this book was so VISUAL. I could just see everything happening in my mind. It really enhanced the book for me and heaps of praise unto Kelly Andrew for being able to illicit that in writing.

I walked out of my room and immediately told my boyfriend "it was *amazing*". I think it's absolutely worth the read, pick it up if you even thought about reading it.

I loved this book. Kelly Andrew just writes characters like no one else. Wyatt is so raw and the friendship between her and Peter and James is so nostalgic and twisted and complicated. I ate this story up. The relationships are so twisted and complicated and heart-wrenching. I absolutely loved everything about this dark and complicated friendship story. This book was like if someone turned Taylor Swift's Folklore album into a horror novel and it solidified Kelly Andrew as an auto buy author for me.

I thoroughly enjoyed every part of this book! From beginning to end this book kept me enthralled. I love learning about Wyatt and Peters's past and the magic that her blood holds. The entire book I was rooting for Peter and Wyatt to survive the horror that is making its way through to the farm from the other side.
Also, I'm sure it said it somewhere but I didn't realize this was a young adult novel until it revealed that Wyatt our main character is 18 almost halfway or a bit further into the book. It was dark and twisty and filled with so much hope and desolation simultaneously and couldn't put it down.

Wyatt's journey to accepting who she is and the power she holds was amazing, and I loved learning all about her and Peters's past together. While it didn't give me the ending I wanted or hoped for, it gave me the ending the story called for. And I would absolutely love more from this world maybe following Wyatt's cousin.

This was a super unique story that gave me all the feels and I will definitely be adding Kelly Andrew to my auto-buy list.

“Dully, she wondered if this was what heartbreak felt like—looking into the eyes of someone she’d spent her whole life memorizing and finding nothing recognizable left over in their depths.”

This is one of the most unique stories I have read in a long time. If you are looking for a mysterious cult magic story with a side of yearning and heartbreak, this one is for you. Kelly Andrew's ability to convey the depth of her character's feelings while also completely setting the scene of intrigue and creepiness drew me right into Wyatt's world.

I was excited to get my hands on this ARC and while it did not disappoint, I believe readers should go into it with the understanding that this book is full for sorrow and is not a happy story and does not have a happy ending.

I have been staring at the wall thinking about the ending at least once a day since finishing. This book has put Kelly Andrew solidly on my Author list. I will be reading her other published works and looking out for any future books!

Thank you to NetGalley and Scholastic for this arc in exchange for an honest review!

Your Blood, My Bones is a young adult contemporary dark fantasy about a teenage girl who inherits her father’s land that sits on the edge of two worlds.

When Wyatt’s mother took her from her childhood home five years ago she left behind her two best friends Peter and James. But when she returns to the farmhouse after her father’s death she is horrified to find Peter chained up in the basement. What no one told her was that Peter was an immortal child from another world and it’s only his ritualistic murder over and over for a century by her family that has been holding back the monsters from another dimension. It will be up to Peter and Wyatt to set aside their feelings for each other and devise a way to close the rip between the two worlds.

This is a creative, haunting and romantic novel about first love, sacrifice and the dark things that terrible people do for power. I loved Wyatt, Peter and James and I rooted for them the entire time. The setting and the monsters were appropriately creepy and the writing was atmospheric and beautiful. I enjoyed the pacing which was never dull or slow and kept me turning the pages. I look forward to reading Kelly Andrew’s debut novel which includes some of the side characters from this one.

Overall, this wasn't a bad book. It had an interesting story with some pretty cool things happening on this plot of land. What I didn't care for was the characters. Wyatt was constantly a TSTL character and Peter (I'm spelling it this way for simplicity sake because don't even get me started on his name) was just a useless immortal that didn't seem to fight for anything. Mild spoiler: If I had been murdered time and time again by a group of zealots, I'm pretty sure I'd be rather angry by now. However, I did really like his backstory and the role he has played here for so long. I also don't understand how, if her mother was so worried about her because she was unable to get ahold of her on the phone, why didn't she just go to the farm?! She knew exactly where Wyatt had gone! Guess we know where the stupid gene came from.

For all intents and purposes, Wyatt's father was practically a cult leader. Though in his defense, he sincerely wanted to change how things were done there. It finally came to a point where Wyatt's mother took her away and they left, never seeing him or the farm again. Until news of his death and Wyatt goes back with every intention of just burning the place the ground. But when she discovers her childhood crush bound in tree roots in the basement, she learns that there was a lot more going on there than she ever realized. And a lot more to her as well.

Wyatt quite literally never listens when someone tells her something, so she is constantly making the situation worse and worse. Basically, this otherworldly darkness has been held at bay by Wyatt's family for generations using their blood (and other ingredient) as a catalyst for spells. With her father dead, the wards are failing and darkness is coming thru more and more. Leaving Wyatt as the only one who can fix things. But she's different from everyone else and her magic doesn't work the same. Conflicting emotions when it comes to Peter and his role in everything doesn't help either.

Honestly, I didn't really like how this ended. Really, the last part in general was my least favorite. I'm not saying it was bad, but it just sort of got kind of meh at this point.

This was very well written, well realized characters and a plot that moved right along, at the end of the day it was a little too scary for me, but that's more of a personal qualm. I would recommend this to anyone looking for an older version of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (or other readalike titles).

Read if you like:
-Paranormal
-Gothic
-Horror
-Urban fantasy
-Slow-burn romance that leaves you swooning
-Eerie settings
-Thrillers
-Cottagecore

I am thoroughly impressed with this book! I REALLY enjoyed it. Was I devastated at times? Yes, but it was worth it. It’s set on an old farmhouse that is very eerie and mysterious. 👀 AND there’s a creepy forest with a dangerous, ancient threat (I love creepy forests). I’m normally not a fan of urban fantasy, BUT this one definitely won me over! I LOVE the plot, the setting, the creepy vibes, the writing style, and the romance. Also, the pacing of the story is *Chef’s Kiss.* Bottom line, READ THIS BOOK. This is my first Kelly Andrew book, but it will not be my last.

Overall I enjoyed the plot and pacing. I was a little confused at times, but more like I must have missed a detail. Otherwise I liked that this was a stand alone story, the magic was interesting.