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Bone, Vol. 3: Eyes of the Storm (Bone #3; issues 13-18)

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In "Eyes of the Storm," book three in the epic BONE series, Gran'ma Ben reveals long-kept secrets about Thorn's royal heritage and the ancient enmities that may lead to war.

In "Eyes of the Storm," volume three of the nine-book BONE saga, Lucius, Smiley, and Phoney survive an attack by the rat creatures and return safely to Lucius' tavern in Barrelhaven. Phoney, desperate t...more

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Published February 1st 2006 by GRAPHIX (first published June 1995)

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Dec 21, 2012 Danny rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Eye of the Storm was another interesting Bone. It was after the great cow race. I liked it because it was because I have a certain love for the bone series. It has a lot of action thrill and adventure inside of that little comic book. It is a very hilarious book and it is also quiet serious at some points of the story. Also I like the way the author or illustrator (I don’t know) draw the characters inside of the story. Also how they put random new characters in the story like the lord of the...more

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Sep 19, 2012 Marcelo rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: anyone who likes a good story.

If Bone, Vol. 2: The Great Cow Race was a little calmer, is that because Jeff Smith was preparing big things for vol. 3. Boy oh boy, I read this book in one sitting! The art is that gorgeous ink-over-paper I fell in love with back in Bone, Vol. 1: Out from Boneville — the kind you either adore or detest, there's no middle ground. I adore it.

Also, the adorable characters of Fone Bone, Smiley Bone, Thorn, Gran'ma Ben, Lucious, and yes even Phoney Bone, are back for a trully fantastic story. Thinks...more

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May 08, 2012 Jerome rated it 5 of 5 stars

Bone's saga strange mix of fantasy and poetic surrealism is at its peak in these stories. Fone Bone hopelessly loves Thorn, who in these chapters will learn excruciating truths about her past. The rat creatures are on the prowl (save the two local idiots) and Phoney Bone can't think better than casting doubt on the most valid defender against them...the Red Dragon. And this, only because of a foolish bet in which poor Lucius let himself be drawn.Harbingers of all these developments are strange d...more

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Mar 05, 2012 Ryne rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Required Category(ies) Satisfied: Graphic novel

By skimming and skipping (and re-skimming and re-skipping) around the complete Bone one-volume compilation, I think I've basically read the entire thing. I actually made sure to read "Eyes of the Storm" from start to finish, though, so I'll give a comprehensive review here.

After the events of "The Great Cow Race," the townsfolk of Barrelhaven are enraged with Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone, who almost snookered them into losing...more [Note: Spoilers ahead!]

Required Category(ies) Satisfied: Graphic novel

By skimming and skipping (and re-skimming and re-skipping) around the complete Bone one-volume compilation, I think I've basically read the entire thing. I actually made sure to read "Eyes of the Storm" from start to finish, though, so I'll give a comprehensive review here.

After the events of "The Great Cow Race," the townsfolk of Barrelhaven are enraged with Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone, who almost snookered them into losing everything they had bet on a "Mystery Cow" (Smiley in a cow suit). With Gran'ma Ben and Lucius (the owner of the Barrelhaven tavern) settling everyone's losses, however, things cool down--and Lucius escorts Gran'ma, Thorn, and the Bones back to Gran'ma's farm to help repair it (from a rat creature attack in Vol. 1). Things begin to turn more ominous, as both Thorn and Fone Bone find strange "intruders" appearing in their dreams back at the farm. When Lucius, Smiley, and Phoney head back to Barrelhaven (the two Bones still have to work to pay off their debt to Lucius), they must flee a rat creature ambush, while Fone Bone, Gran'ma, and Thorn finally sit down to talk about the strange goings-on involving the rat creatures, as well as Thorn's own mysterious past. As Lucius and co. finally arrive back at Barrelhaven, Gran'ma decides that she, Thorn, and Fone Bone must flee--for the rat creatures have come for them, and the farm is no longer safe.

This volume of Bone certainly isn't as eventful as the previous one, which is probably why I gave it a lower rating--I still enjoyed it, but it mostly involved a bunch of further exposition and conversation, and not that much action. On the plus side, we do get to enjoy a lot more of Jeff Smith's artistic skills--with the storm taking place in this novel, we are treated to scenes of rain-streaked flight, lightning-lit closeups, etc. Smith does a wonderful job showing emotion in his characters' eyes and faces, and I love seeing the expressiveness of his characters' half-lit profiles (mostly Thorn in this particular volume). Thorn and Bone's dream sequences are also drawn beautifully. (I loved the full-page panel in Fone Bone's dream with the Red Dragon's gigantic face rising out of the sea; if there was a poster of that, I would probably buy it.)

(Note for parents: In this volume--and moreso later in the series--there is a little bit of suggested innuendo because of Fone Bone's crush on Thorn, as well as scenes with drinking and alcohol. This volume doesn't have a lot of violence, but later ones do when a war breaks out. So, I wouldn't have any problem with someone 14 or 16 or older reading the book, but some parents would want to go through them before deciding whether their 12-ish-year-old is ready for them.)

Having provided the above caveat, however, I have to give my favorite quote from this volume, as said by Phoney Bone after a healthy bit of fear-mongering (all for his own benefit, of course):

"Nothin' like a little alcohol to grease th' wheels of mob mentality! RIGHT, BOYS?!"

Smith definitely has an ear for comedy and an eye for art, and some of his dialogue and his panels are gems (hokey as it may sound to say that). As I said in another review, my only real grievance with Bone would be that I really do not like Smith's Pogo-esque tendency to put a word or two in every other sentence in bold, just to emphasize it (like this). But that's a small price to pay for such an entertaining read. (less)

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Dec 17, 2011 Kristel rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Continuously referring to prior events and with little character explanation , Eyes of the Storm would not be easy to follow by readers who have missed the first two books.Blob-shaped, white, talking creatures and hayseed farmers who use eggs as currency tell the tale of attacking rodents, fierce storms and a dragon that wends his way into dreams. Jeff Smith has created a story that is part dark fairy tale and part slapstick comedy. In the third installment of the series, Fone Bone’s cousins tra...more

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Jul 02, 2011 Nic rated it 4 of 5 stars

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Now we're getting into a bunch of comics that I missed when I was collecting them back in the nineties. Kind of funny, because I had some of the ones after this - much of the Dragonslayer arc and the appearance of Rock Jaw - but I didn't know anything about Thorn being a princess.

(Which I have to say is a tiny bit disappointing because it's just so common that you could almost assume it would be the case. "What would raise the stakes here? If Thorn was secretly a PRINCESS!" Plus, in fantasy, som...more Now we're getting into a bunch of comics that I missed when I was collecting them back in the nineties. Kind of funny, because I had some of the ones after this - much of the Dragonslayer arc and the appearance of Rock Jaw - but I didn't know anything about Thorn being a princess.

(Which I have to say is a tiny bit disappointing because it's just so common that you could almost assume it would be the case. "What would raise the stakes here? If Thorn was secretly a PRINCESS!" Plus, in fantasy, sometimes it's hard to find any important female characters who aren't princesses, or at least royalty. The awesomeness of Grandma Ben has always distracted me from the fact that she seems to be roughly half of the series' female characters, with Thorn (who, honestly, I find to be a kind-of-generic tragic-past secret-princess love interest, at least insomuch as I know her so far).

Also, I'm just now realizing that, while Jeff Smith draws awesome monsters, landscapes, buildings, and cartoony people (e.g. the Bones) - and heck, even most of his regular people, like Lucius and Grandma Ben, look great - his drawings of Thorn are sometimes, I think, less than awesome. I don't mean to just be hating on Thorn right, left, and center, but it is kind of funny - as if he'd decided, "Oh, but this one character has to be pretty," but "pretty" isn't really something he draws. Or something.

(I think part of it is that Lucius and Grandma Ben don't have visible eyes most of the time, and the Bones' eyes tend not to have the oval-with-a-pupil-inside shape most of the time, but Thorn's always do, and Smith sometimes seems to have trouble getting her pupils aimed just right. That can be really hard to do, and a tiny mistake makes the character's whole expression look weird. I've also noticed, though, that her proportions are sometimes off, differing in different panels, usually with her head being huge compared to the rest of her.)

All that said, I like this volume. It is weird, again, to think that I read a bunch of the comics as a kid for which, linearly-speaking, I should already have had this rather important information . . .(less)

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Dec 29, 2010 Karissa rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is the third book in the nine book Bone series by Jeff Smith. A great addition to this series, I thought this was the best book yet.

The Bones are still in the valley trying to eke out a living. In the beginning of the story they are all helping Thorne and Gma rebuild their house. Smiley Bone and Phoney Bone eventually have to leave to settle their debts in town. A surprising secret is revealed about Thorne's identity and Fone Bone and her are plunged deeper into a strange quest.

I loved thi...more

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Sep 07, 2009 Raphael rated it 3 of 5 stars

Bone 3 sterts derectly after bone 2 Smilly bone and phoony bone are in debt to Lucas for loosing 100 to 1 odds in the cow race( in book 2) Obviously not having annything to pay him back The two brothers are forced to work off their debt. So while Fone Bone stays behind his two cousins spend the book at Lucuses tavern working off their debt. On thorns grandmass farm Bone, thorn and her grandma run into some troble with the rat creatures. Thorn also stars having very wierd recuring dreams about h...more

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Mar 05, 2013 Louis Monem added it

I was unable to get the chance to read the first Bone book, so I skipped straight to the third book. It was a little hard to follow some of the topics they talked about but I slowly started to understand what was happening. I enjoyed reading this book a lot, it had some funny moments and also some very serious moments. I like the illustrations a lot, they were ver clear and made the book so much better. While I was reading this book I found it a bit weird how some random characters came in and o...more

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Jan 28, 2009 Noemi claudine rated it 5 of 5 stars

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This is the third of the bone series. This starts of with Phonicble and Smiley bone and the tavern. They have to work there and do the dishes. They make a bet with Luscious the tavern owner that if the get the most customers n there side of the bar thy dot have to do the dishes. He lies again saying that he is a dragon sayer and that he can protect everyone. While all that id happening Fone bone thorn and Grandma Ben are escaping there house from the rat creatures and Thorn starts getting these...more

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Jun 10, 2009 cheyenne rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 7th-grade-ir-books-debra

the plot in this book is about a book named bone who is in love with a girl named thorne. but their family is going through life and death situation.Bone's cousins lied in a cow race.And now they have to pay by working for the winner of the cow race.Thorn found out that her life is endanger and she is the princess of the valley.

I can connect to this book with a text to self connection because if I found out that I was a princess and my parents were betrayed and died trying to safe my life I wou...more

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Jul 21, 2011 Eden rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Things aren't getting easier in the valley, in fact they are getting worse. Lucius, Smiley and Phoney are attacked while heading back to the tavern. The rat creatures almost got them, but thanks to some last minute thinking by Smiley, they made it out alive. Well, barely.
At the farm, Fone Bone and Thorn are troubled by strange dreams they've been having. They know the dreams mean something and Gran'ma isn't too happy with hearing about the dreams.

Gran'ma Ben tells Thorn and Fone Bone secrets tha...more

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Jul 05, 2009 Craig Williams rated it 3 of 5 stars

Things begin to heat up with this installment of the Bone series, as secrets of the past are revealed (with plenty more to spare). A little bit of light is shed on the villian who is after the Bone cousins, although it is still not known why he's after them. This was definitely the more serious volume of the three I've read so far, although there were still several laugh-out-loud moments, such as when Fone Bone finally gives Grandma Ben the map he found in the desert, only he mistakenly gives he...more

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Oct 31, 2012 Laura added it

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Bone Vol.3 -Eyes of the Storm- Jeff Smith
174 pages
Graphic Novel

I really enjoyed reading Bone, I thought it was a very interesting and fun book to read. Three cousins Phoney bone, Fone bone and Smiley Bone are out on another adventure. Fone Bone really like Thorn who also lives in the village. The three cousins, Thorn, Gran'ma Ben, and Lucius all live on a farm. Thorn has never really known anything about her parents other then they died when she was young. In the start of the book...more

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Aug 06, 2012 Sam rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This picks up shortly after the end of the second volume and finds the bones helping Grandma repair her house after the rat raids, with Fone Bone still unable to express himself to Thorn and Phoney Bone still coming up with many an audacious plan to get them home. In this volume not only do we get to see Fone Bone in an adventure as Moby Bone (probably my favourite bit) but we find out a more about Thorn and why she now lives with Grandma and why she is so protective of her. The answers to which...more

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Mar 28, 2011 Federiken Masters rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Casi todo el mundo.

Recommended to Federiken by: Los anteriores

Hasta ahora, el mejor tomo en lo que va de la serie, sin duda alguna. Si no llega a las cuatro estrellas es por algún bajón narrativo y algún que otro caprichito mío. Sigue manteniendo el espíritu inocentón y cándido de las primeras aventuras, pero la sombra del pasado ya va cubriendo a los personajes, varias verdades salen a la luz y la cosa se está poniendo jodida de verdad. Lástima que un par de las "revelaciones" me parecieron predecibles en el mal sentido de la palabra: si Smith tenía ganas...more

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Jan 28, 2009 Dilan rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 7th-grade-ir-books-sadelle

The book Bone-Eyes of the Storm is about Phoney bone and Smiley bone working for Luscious. They are working for him because they have to pay off the accident they cause at the cow race. Since Phoney bone still wants to be rich they make a bet with Luscious. The bet was that who ever sells the most beer wins. If Phoney bone wins they own the restaurant and if Luscious wins Phoney bone and Smiley bone work for him forever. Nobody wants to buy anything from Phoney bone and Smiley bone so they make...more

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May 21, 2012 Michelle rated it 4 of 5 stars

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THIS volume finally brought the oomph that I've been looking for in this series. It's a much slower volume in terms of action, because a lot of time is spent exposing some of the mysteries that the first two volumes brought up.

First off, I LOVE that we finally get to know Thorn's true identity. I won't give it away here because of spoilers, but it widened the scope of the story considerably. Her real identity is rather cliche and actually quite predictable but I lov...more
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THIS volume finally brought the oomph that I've been looking for in this series. It's a much slower volume in terms of action, because a lot of time is spent exposing some of the mysteries that the first two volumes brought up.

First off, I LOVE that we finally get to know Thorn's true identity. I won't give it away here because of spoilers, but it widened the scope of the story considerably. Her real identity is rather cliche and actually quite predictable but I loved it anyway. This is what gets the ball rolling for the much more serious stuff to come in later volumes. Also, there's the whole aspect of dreams playing a much greater role in the story that I really liked it. Not too much is explained in this volume, but it's the seed for things that are expounded on in later volumes.

The art continues to be consistently well done, and I especially liked some of the later scenes in this volume during the titular storm. There are scenes that are dark, with rain falling all over the place, which are then illuminated by lightning. Smith basically pulls off a kind of strobe light effect and it looks really good. The tension in that scene was raised exponentially because of how Smith drew it which really demonstrated his grasp on the graphic novel medium, I think.

Thankfully, not ALL the questions are answered in this volume and many more are raised, so needless to say I'm going to read this series through until the end. I'm really glad I didn't abandon the series when it didn't grab me right away, because it is turning out to be a lot of fun. :)

Final Verdict: This volume felt like the turning point in this series for me; it went from being "yeah, it's all right" to "YES, I'm really enjoying this". There were some major revelations in this volume that really elevated the story and had me glued to the pages. The really awesome art helped as well. This is definitely a series I want to see through until the end, bar the series somehow jumping the shark.(less)

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Aug 03, 2011 Nicola rated it 5 of 5 stars

Reason for Reading: Next in the series.

Vol. 3 starts off with Fone Bone and Thorn having strange dreams and Phoney and Smiley settling down to life at the farm. Soon enough the latter two are taken back to the village to work off their debt to Lucius. The rat creatures are out after everybody as each party gets caught in a rain storm. Then Gran'ma Ben finally tells Thorn the real story of Thorn's life so far, the mysteries of her dreams and she is stunned. This is a major turning point in the pl...more

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Oct 17, 2012 Matthew rated it 4 of 5 stars

Another great book in the bone series. Smiley and thorn tell each other about their dreams when their grandma walks in. Then smiley, phoney and Lucias are riding to the Barrel tavern when rat creatures attack. Then tho cow freaks out and they fall of a cliff into a lake! Once they make it to the tavern Phoney and Smiley gotta work off their wagers from the cow race at the barrel haven. Phone bone, Thorn and grandma get lost in the woods when they run into rat creatures. then red dragon comes out...more

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Feb 03, 2013 Matthew Whitelaw rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Sep 06, 2009 Jonah Tarmu rated it 4 of 5 stars

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(continued from the second book)

After completing the choirs around the house Smiley and Phoney leave the farm and go with Lucius to help in the bar. On the way to the bar, they make a deal (Phoney and Lucius) to see who can run the bar better. Of course Phoney does something sneaky and says he's a dragon slayer. And of course everyone believes him.

MEANWHILE

Fone and Thorn and Grandma were discussing what happened in Fones and Thorns dream. and Thorns dream are actaully memories that happened to...more

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Jan 05, 2010 Debbie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: adventure, fantasy, graphic-novel, young-adult-lit

Bone series, book three.

Lucius, Phoney, and Smiley narrowly escape a pack of rat monsters on their journey into town. Phoney hatches another money-making scheme as a result of a bet with Lucius.

Thorn learns the truth about her past and the mysterious dreams that have always troubled her and she and Fone set out with Gran'ma when the trio realizes that the valley is on the verge of war and the farm is no longer a safe haven.

The dark forces have realized who Thorn really is and are hunting for h...more

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Mar 20, 2008 Tashi rated it 5 of 5 stars

i read the hole book but i don't remember alot but all i know is that fone bone love thorn.

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Mar 19, 2010 Ariana Deralte rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: 10 year olds

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This series is so full of clichés, I find it hard to get into. I think the only character I like is Grandma - and her over-dramatization of everything is beginning to get tedious. I also find the humour in this series puerile and basic as it comes. It's pretty sad that my second favourite characters are the rat creatures.

That being said, for such a basic story, it's tightly plotted, and very well drawn. I liked this book slightly better than the goofiness of the last one, but it'll still be awh...more

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Jan 14, 2013 Ashish rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics, fantasy

There ware some bits that were suitably chilling, but this volume somehow lacks the epicness of the others - seemed to be more filler content, establishing backstories and setting the stage for greater and better things to come. The barn sequence was straight out of classic shock movies and later, into old-school fantasy swords-and-sorcery... had a brief moment of nostalgia when the fantasy storylines were so brilliantly pure, instead of being the Game Of Thrones mire most seem to be becoming th...more

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Oct 16, 2012 Daniel Reisenauer added it

This was a good book just like the other 2. I am now on the begining of the 4th book. So far this is a magnificent series. One of my favorite parts is when the hooded dude yells at Kingdok then he just gets completely owned by a bunch of grass-hoppers. That was a really good part, then Kingdok was just standing there smirking. But just like the others, i recomend this book to every other person that likes long-short books. I think this is really cool, because this book is a graphic novel. It's a...more

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Jul 17, 2011 Chip'sBookBinge rated it 4 of 5 stars

Bone: Volume #3 Eyes of the Storm finally gets around to revealing the big secret about Thorn's past and where she came from and why the Rat Creatures are after her. I kinda knew this was where the story was going so it wasn't that big of a reveal to me. This is still a great yarn, but for me, Volume #3 gets a lower rating because it seemed like there wasn't as much of Bone as in the two previous Volumes. A lot was spent on Thorn, Gran'ma and the rest in order to tell their story and set up what...more

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Jan 09, 2012 Ethancalhounforesthills.edu rated it 5 of 5 stars

This Bone book is when all the action starts up. Grama ben reveals her amazing secret to Thorn and Fone bone, Fone and Thorn both start having strange dreams at the same time, but the question that both of them have is that if this really is a coincidence.

Phoney Bone starts up another one of his "ideas" by agreeing to a bet with Lucius. The bet was that they would split Lucius' bar right down the middle and whoever turned a better profit won. If Phoney won, he didnt have to work at the bar at al...more

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Oct 05, 2011 Christopher Karalekian rated it 5 of 5 stars

Bone is a suspenseful action book involving all sorts of things including dragons, mysterious bone creatures, hairy rat creatures, local villagers who use produce, livestock, and home goods as currency, and two farmwomen who are named rose and thorn. This book in my opinion is the fourth best Bone book out of the entire series, of course thats just my opinion. This is one of the longer Bone books because of how much being told. This has many more characters than the others before it because the...more

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