Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone
By Alex McCarthy
A 3.75-4⭐️/5 read
Before reading, I highly recommend checking this short novel’s trigger warnings. To be quite frank, had I known what was happening to the main character Rosalind, I wouldn’t have read the book. There are a few things that I prefer avoiding reading about, if I can help it. That is why I think publishers should star indicating trigger warnings in the books.
This said, the short novel is well written, descriptive without being overly so, intense, painful, uncomfortable. It is in neither light or nor gentle for it portrays the dark side of life that can be masqueraded by everyday’s life.
It is the story of the Bone sisters, mainly Rosalind whose beauty is unrivaled and a curse, and who goes through the unthinkable. Life is not kind to any of the characters in this novel, but Rosalind especially. It is also the story of a little hamlet where people go about their lives (often willingly) oblivious to what is happening around them and with a tendency to look the other way.
To be frank, the ending was a tiny bit rushed. I wish [SPOILER ALERT!] we could have witnessed the mending of years of incomprehension and of being apart and the rebuilding of the relationship between the two sisters.[/SPOILER ALERT]
Thank you Doubleday UK for allowing me to read a copy through NetGalley.