Bonebag by E. M. Elliott

Thanks to @NetGalley for the advance copy of this book! 🦴

Forced to attend the whim of his so-called parents, a boy called Bonebag lives an isolated life in the forest, with few comforts but pages from a book, the faint memory of perfume, and a feeling that this isn’t the life he was supposed to live. But trapped inside a nightmare world where dark creatures prowl, how can he change his fate? ✨

Bonebag finds a way to leave the forest. He travels to a city, and makes friends with another lost boy like himself, one without parents. But escaping the forest left a mark, he’s been cursed and every day he loses more of his humanity. 👹To break it, he must find a way to return, and bring back the final ingredient of a potion - a flower that grows in the forest where he was kept for years. 🪻Joined alongside his new friends, he must discover the truth of how he arrived in the forest to begin with, and the question that has followed him all his life - who are his real parents? 🤔

What a wonderful book, full of incredible world-building. 🥰 The characters were all so unique and I loved the language and dialect used by the lost boys! This Middle Grade novel is being published on 26 May ‘26, and I wish it every success! 💖

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