ApoorvaReads's Reviews > Bone Island: Book of Danvers

5+++ stars ⭐️

“The sea was a collector of things. It took things we cherished—most things we’d forgotten—and I still found myself drawn to her, unable to resist her call, needing to step into the graveyard of the lost, wild, and treasured.”

I know I’ve said this before but i will say it again- if i could only choose one author to read for the rest of my life it would no doubt be Miss Nicole Fiorina. Im still processing how much I loved this book and how much in awe i am of nicole’s writing and her talent. The way she wrote this story how she weaved words to make a masterpiece is something i will NEVER understand. I really don’t know how nicole does it. There’s not even a single book of hers which i didnt hate but i have to say BONE ISLAND is my favourite of hers. She never fails to disappoint and i can wait 5-6 years for her books and I won’t even complain cause i know she will come with a banger 🙏🏼

“She was the sun, who shone a light on me, making me question if she were gone, who would I be, and would I exist at all?
Without her, there would be no ears to hear me.
No fingers to touch me.
No lips to taste me.”

Adora Sullivan like Nicole heroines is an iconic person. The way she was raw with her emotions, how she put everyone before her, how she always cared for the people in Weeping Hollow. Adora is my fav nicole heroine yet and she stole my heart with her personality and just everything which make her her. Words cant fail to express how much relatable i found her and how like her i have a raging mind. Nicole really needs to give us a warning when she writes characters which break your heart with how much you can relate to them.

“Somehow, I’d found a hidden passage winding into the tomb he’d built around himself. Inside, Stone had a heart that wasn’t as black and cold as his eyes. He just didn’t know how to use it. His face was like a marble statue as we stared at each other. His breaths were quiet again, whispers through carved blue lips. He looked into my eyes, and each time he blinked his lashes splayed across his muted cheeks like soot.”

Stone Denvers dnjfineuciudvuinrvun. I dont know what to say about my troubled man. The way he went through so much shit in his life but still grew up to be a person with a pure, gentle soul and perfect for Adora. The way he loved her with everything he had and he did his best to make sure he’s worthy of Adora’s love had me on my knees 🧎‍♀️

“ I feel like you and me are ashes,” I whispered, and Stone’s eyes were bloodshot when they swung to mine. I’d never seen them bloodshot before. Ink and blood. “We’re ashes,” I repeated. “We hold our shape until someone pokes at us. We last hundreds of years. We don’t dissolve or float; we sink, and oh, do we sink. But at the end of the day, we’re still ashes.”

Adora and Stone’s love story will forever be injected in my veins. I can’t say which one of these two i loved more cause its not possible. Their love story is haunting, freeing, heartbreaking and devastatingly beautiful. This is not just a simple story. Its SO much more. Adora and Stone have made a huge mark on me and I wouldnt have it any other way. Its a love story which i will remember for ages to come.

”All this time, we kept rewriting our tragic story, desperate to change our bitter end. And what has saved us? Our hearts were so tangled it was hard to know who was holding who too tight. We have a love that outlasts love. Fate was never on our side, but we didn’t need it. Time stood in our way, so we created our time.”

I had tears in my eyes during certain chapters. I was legit sobbing out loud in few of them. No one captures emotions like Nicole. I can always count on her to make me cry, make me smile and make me feel all 25 emotions. Its so hard to write a review for a book you love and i feel like no words can bring justice to what this book means to me. This book came to me at a point where I didn’t know what i was doing and where i felt lonely and this book made my month. It came when i needed it the most.

” There’s more to me than this, I know, but there is no escape. Trauma has a way of tying knots with our bones. This is what happens when a woman has a mind she can’t use, a loyalty she’s forced to refuse. This is what happens when a woman’s oppressed, silenced, ridden of purpose. This is what happens, I want to scream. My rage has turned into crazy. My secret is so heavy, the things that would happen to me if I ever said it aloud. I hate them for what they did to her. I hate them for what they’re doing to me. But I hate myself more for this thing inside me, feeding me these thoughts I can’t control.”

Nicole all i can say is thankyou for this. Thankyou for writing a story which is so tragic but gives me hope. A story which broke my heart but pierced me back together. A story which will never leave me.

Thankyou for writing the best book I’ve read in two years and thankyou for sharing your love of writing with us🫶🏻 I will forever be in debt.

I have so many highlights and I wish I could go on and on about this book cause it deserves essays written on it but all i can do is urge all the readers to give this one a go and find yourself in a world which is unlike any other.

” What’s the cure for heartbreak?” I asked. She looked up at me as she turned the page. “Poetry,” she replied. “And books. A lot of books.”

**Arc provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.**