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A review by richardleis
Grind Your Bones to Dust by Nicholas Day
5.0
Wow.
Brutal.
But wow. The storytelling is beautiful and relentless, beginning with flesh-eating donkeys and not letting up through storylines that weave and knot together by the end. I'm not sure what I think about that ending yet, but this is a remarkable book. It's a book that didn't give me nightmares the first night but instead kept waking me up to think about how reality often is this bleak and brutal. Maybe there's really not all that much comfort to be had in the beliefs and lies we tell ourselves about life, death, and eternity.
Brutal.
But wow. The storytelling is beautiful and relentless, beginning with flesh-eating donkeys and not letting up through storylines that weave and knot together by the end. I'm not sure what I think about that ending yet, but this is a remarkable book. It's a book that didn't give me nightmares the first night but instead kept waking me up to think about how reality often is this bleak and brutal. Maybe there's really not all that much comfort to be had in the beliefs and lies we tell ourselves about life, death, and eternity.