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    Ivory and Bone
    Ivory and Bone
    Ivory and Bone
    Audiobook8 hours

    Ivory and Bone

    Written by Julie Eshbaugh

    Narrated by Michael Curran-Dorsano

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    Debut author Julie Eshbaugh’s sweeping prehistoric fantasy—with allusions to Pride and Prejudice—will enthrall readers with high-stakes survival, blinding betrayal, and star-crossed love.

    Hunting, gathering, and keeping his family safe—that’s the life seventeen-year-old Kol knows. Then bold, enigmatic Mya arrives from the south with her family, and Kol is captivated. He wants her to like and trust him, but any hopes of impressing her are ruined when he makes a careless—and nearly grave—mistake. However, there’s something more to Mya’s cool disdain…a history wrought with loss that comes to light when another clan arrives. With them is Lo, an enemy from Mya’s past who Mya swears has ulterior motives.

    As Kol gets to know Lo, tensions between Mya and Lo escalate until violence erupts. Faced with shattering losses, Kol is forced to question every person he’s trusted. One thing is for sure: this was a war that Mya or Lo—Kol doesn’t know which—had been planning all along.

    With riveting action and illustrative prose that leaps from the page, newcomer Julie Eshbaugh will have readers mesmerized. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 7, 2016
    ISBN9780062448569
    Author

    Julie Eshbaugh

    Julie Eshbaugh is a YA writer and former filmmaker. She made two short films and then spent several years producing an online video series for teens, which received several honors from the Webby Awards. You can learn more about Julie’s writing escapades (with the online group Publishing Crawl) by visiting www.julieeshbaugh.com.

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    • 3/5
      True Rating is 3.5 This main plot is about Kol from the Manu clan and his focus on one woman, Mya. If there are any allusions going on it is with the movie 10,000 B.C. The story is told in first person from the perspective of Kol. Roughly for the first three quarters of the book the story is told in a narration from his perspective of his meeting her and following events that led them to where he starts to tell the story. Oral tradition is how history was passed from generation to generation in the past and this narration is reminiscent of that. The romantic in me absolutely loves this because he is so detailed in his thoughts, feelings, and honesty. He holds nothing back and I love how the author was able to keep the narration so well and from his perspective. Truly well written and not just his narration but she does an excellent job of the world construction for pre-historic times but unfortunately for me I kept envisioning 10,000 B.C.Kol’s deepest desire is for Mya to see him, to want him, to trust him, to be his. Mya is from the Olen clan and there is a bad history between these two clans that almost led to a war five years ago. Kol is unaware of exactly what the catalyst was that led to the tensions between clans but his fascination with Mya is the spark that starts his mind pondering. That spark has opened his awareness to why Mya and her clan are not so open to the idea of the clans aligning and later on explains the poor treatment of his clan.Seems that clan Olen also have a few skeletons in their closet. Unbeknownst to either clan Manu or Olen there is a third clan, the Bosha, in the background who have a nefarious interest in the extinction of the Olen elder, Chev, and his family. Through deception this third clan is almost able to bring their plan to fruition but things do not go as planned thanks to the bravery of Kol.For most of the book, I found the whole character of Mya to be a turn off. I wanted Kol to just move on and seek greener pastures. Had I been his friend I would have definitely been trying to push him to be sensible because the girl has issues. In the last quarter of this book my feelings for her started to thaw because as things came to light I began to understand the “why” to her behaviors.Kol, now there is a guy after my heart even if he is a bit naive. Yes, naive because he is fixated on a girl that is not worthy of him or seemingly interested in him. I found his character to be well rounded and well developed. The imagery that I see when I think back about his narration in the re-telling of his perspective of Mya just makes me love this character.I felt that the ideas were developed, the sub plots were tied together nicely and that the writing style was original, although there are some issues with the modern voice in a pre-historic setting. The story was pretty slow until the end where the climax was quite tumultuous. Also, I am not against “insta-love” if it is believable to me. Kol was inexperienced with females and given how the story was told he was fascinated by Mya but is that due to lack of previous options or experience? It just came across as “puppy love” to me and was hard for me to take seriously. If he had previously had female options and took no interest and then he met Mya and wowwzza then I would have been able to take his fascination seriously.The biggest turn off for me was the first person voice. Everything is from Kol’s perspective and I get nothing from Mya’s. There is no sidekick to add to the discussion and bring some deepening of the characters. So I just have his thoughts and feelings on everything but I felt that they were the thoughts and feelings of a pre-pubescent boy. Any seventeen-year-old boy would have some inner thoughts that were not pure and rational. I would have liked to known Mya’s side of things. Her inner thoughts, how she felt about Kol, her struggles and desires.There was so much good with this story but there were just some issues that I could not get past to fangirl about this book. It is a great debut novel from an obviously talented writer and I am hoping for more in the next book.
    • 2/5
      Well, I wasn't expecting a dawn-of-time adventure, and I was delighted to discover that's what this is -- prehistory, set about the time that the ice is receding and Mammoth herds are migrating north and dying out. So that's fascinating.

      The part where it is absolutely and agonizingly teen love triangles -- not so much.

      Also, I hated, hated, hated that the voice in the story is the voice of a young man telling a young woman the story of their relationship entirely from his point of view -- including and not limited to what she was feeling, how she was acting, how he interpreted everything that she did, without benefit of her input. The story eventually circled back and had that make more sense, but it was a loooooong circle. Also, I really dislike that these prehistorical bands do not take the wishes of the women into account at all. They are allowed to hunt, and seem to rock at that, but they are not allowed to decide who they will marry? There is a gay couple leading one of the tribes, so yay for that, but honestly, why set up such a misogynistic story?

      Finally, I had a really hard time with the time spans in the book. For instance, Pek wants to court Seeri, and she liked their sealskins, so he decides to bring her sealskins as a courting gift -- ok, great! He and Kol go hunting and it goes badly, but they come back with 1 seal that trip. 2 days later, Pek leaves for the southern tribe with a kayak full of sealskins -- wait, what now? First you have to hunt them, then skin them, then scrape the hides and tan the hides and that is just not a 2 day process, even if your entire tribe can drop all the survival oriented things they are doing in order to make this happen. Similarly, Mya makes a parka for Kol in 2 days, from a new skin. Even if we assume that he perfectly prepared it and it was ready to go overnight (which he apparently did), sewing in prehistory involves using an awl to punch holes, using sinew and a bone needle to sew the thing together, after cutting the pieces out. That is not a quick process. Things like this bothered me.

      Oh, look, and the next book in the series is another marriage against her will plot. No, thank you.

    • 4/5
      Thanks to the publisher for this arc.
      I have to admit this one took me about 50 pages to get into the story. But once I was drawn in, I couldn't put it down.
      This book is a beautiful story of betrayal and forgiveness...of how strong family bonds and history can shape our relationships and how we see the world.
      This would make a great addition to any collection.
    • 2/5
      I feel like the general summary given for the book is very misleading. It makes it seem much more epic than it actually was. I jumped in thinking I was going to get a paleolithic prehistoric war type situation, not like bloody and gory but tribes claiming their land and giving legitimate threats. Now I'm not saying it wasn't a good story but it wasn't for me. Oh and...Perhaps if I had known it was supposed to be like a Pride & Prejudice retelling in a prehistoric era I might have been scratching my head less wondering why this sounded so familiar.Seventeen year old Kol hunts with his clan for survival. It's what his family has done for generations to survive and occasionally trades with other tribes that migrate near them on a regular basis. There's a tribe that they have been at odds with for years that decided to travel up from the south on a peace mission. In the group are Chev High Elder of the Olen clan himself, his sisters Seeri and Mya. Kol's parents (ahem..really his mother) are excited at the prospect of matching their eldest sons to the two girls and of course possibly building ties with the southern clan once again so they play nice and decide to go hunting together as a show of peace.Of course, things don't go as planned and he almost ends up killing Mya or at least that's how she felt. But all is not lost because the H.E. of Olen didn't see it that way either and they still end up negotiating peace. Soon after they leave to return to their clan. The Northerners (I'm sorry I forgot their clan name) receive a visit from the Bosha clan and at this point the general summary gets really spoilery in my personal opinion. Basically Lo, the daughter of the H.E. comes in and causes, even more, tension between Mya and Kol then poop hits the fan ha.Alright, so I don't know how to say what I thought was kind of lame without spoiling the prologue which I don't think should be spoiled even if it is the very first thing that you learn about the story you're about to read. So I'll put it in a spoiler tag right off the bat, if you've read the summary you know about Kol and Mya, their whole misunderstanding situation but obvious future romantic link so the fact that it starts off with Kol taking care of her wounded makes you think that the story he's about to build up to when we reach that moment in the cave or whatever is going to be epic but it just wasn't. One thing I did like was how Mya was almost redeemed with how strong she was in that moment of weakness and asking someone to tell you the best moment of their life is really sweet when you think about it but then Kol ruined her character by the way he described their interactions it drove me insane. The reason I liked P&P so much was because you could tell that Darcy liked Elizabeth from the start but Kol made it seem like Mya hated his guts up until he killed the saber tooth prowling their colony Really this should have been marketed as a romance story because that's what it was. It's a second narration POV and basically a like an oral love letter. It was verrrrrrry slow and I kept waiting for war and violence to errupt like the summary said it would but it took 3/4ths of the book to finally get there and when it did I didn't feel that sense of danger that I like to get when I read a book of that nature. I liked the setting and the romance between secondary characters was kind of cute but even that felt too convenient.In conclusion I would recommend this as a romance story with a nice setting and a short adventure/thrill.
    • 3/5
      The biggest compliment I can give this story was that it was a retelling of P&P set in the time of ivory-tusked mammoths and nomadic clans dressed in seal-skin parkas, and it WORKED. Still, the parallels were a little TOO obvious at times, and it dragged on just a little too long near the end.
    • 4/5
      Kol and his brothers live in a small clan in the north. Visitors from a tribe to the south bring a chance for brides and alliance. They also bring reminders of a sad history between the clans. When visitors from a struggling northern clan appear and announce a rivalry with the southerners, things become not only complicated, but dangerous.