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Not Even Bones

Not Even Bones

Betrayal is a bloody business
FantasyHorror
Pages
368
Published
2018
Language
English

Synopsis

Nita's life is anything but normal; her mother deals in the black market of supernatural body parts, and Nita's job is to dissect them. But when a live, scared teenage boy is brought home, Nita draws a line. She wants out of the family business, but escaping might be harder than she thinks. This dark fantasy explores the lengths one will go to for survival and morality.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

DarkTenseGritty
Morally GreyReluctant HeroComing of Age

Genres

Fantasy Horror Young Adult

About the author

R
Rebecca Schaeffer

RR/Rebecca Schaeffer is the critically acclaimed author of Not Even Bones and its sequels, the Webtoon adaption of which has garnered over a hundred million reads and nearly 2 million subscribers. Her City of Nightmares duology was one of the BBC’s most anticipated books of 2023, and one of Kirkus’s best books of 2023. Episodes of her comic Dead But Not Gone air weekly on Webtoon and her next book, A Fable for Hollow Creatures, comes out in fall 2026 from Ace.

Characters

NitaProtagonist
All characters in Not Even Bones