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Pretty Bones Kindle Edition

by Erin Lee (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

From the USA Today Bestselling author of The Ghosts who Raised Me comes a contemporary coming of age duet about growing up in a funeral home.

Pretty Bones

A Contemporary Coming of Age NA Novel

It's complicated.

Marlow has always been fascinated with bones. To her, they're no big thing and everything. Bones are things that everybody has – even the dead. Yet, they're responsible for most of her problems.

The daughter of a mortician, Marlow has spent enough time with the cold bodies in the funeral home to be comfortable with the dead. In fact, the stiffs in the viewing room downstairs are some of her awkwardly-mute best friends. She certainly doesn't have many of those at school. Not with her condition.

But things are about to change.

Tired of the daily scene at Kennedy High School, Marlow looks forward to her next bone density test where she'll finally get answers about her condition. There, she hopes to learn more about idiopathic juvenile osteoporosis and the strand of it she has. With the right answers, she just knows the dead can help her. They have to. It's not like they can object.

It's simple.

Marlow has a plan.

What happens when the living and the dead collide?

Will the pretty bones be enough to change a life?

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  1. Print length
    113 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Crazy Ink
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  5. Publication date
    February 19, 2019
  6. File size
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07NX2V8C8
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crazy Ink
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 19, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 765 KB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 113 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1386774334
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

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USA Today Bestselling Author Erin Lee is a dark fiction/reality author and therapist chasing a crazy dream one crazy story at a time. She is the author of more than sixty books and founder of Crazy Ink Publishing, LLC.

Her Diary of a Serial Killer Series is an international bestselling series as is the Moving On Series that she co-wrote with Chelsi Davis. She is also the author of the award-winning Circus Freak Series - soon to be a full length novel called Circus Freaks. Upcoming titles include Lusus Naturae, Pretty Bones and Boned.

Lee holds a master’s degree in psychology and works with at-risk families and as a court appointed special advocate. She writes reality-based fiction under the pen name EL George. When she isn’t busy dissecting the human experience, she enjoys escaping from reality through reading and spending time with her muses and canine companions —Thomas the Terrier and Milo Muse. To her, laughter is the best medicine of all.

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  • Mckenzie
    4.0 out of 5 stars If you've ever wondered what it would be like to live in a funeral home...
    Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2019
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    First thing - this was not written how I expected it to be. Marlow's story reads more like a journal. There is dialog but not a lot of it. Once I got used to the style, I was sucked in.

    It's clear that a lot of research went into Pretty Bones. Marlow's knowledge about how funerals are planned and the preparation of our departed loved ones feels natural. Her character is a little abrasive, but that's understandable given the physical limitations of her disease, and her reaction to those limitations are realistic for any teenager in her position. It was very nice to see Marlow start to soften when she meets Owen.

    I thoroughly enjoyed this first book in the series.
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  • Casia P. Courtier
    3.0 out of 5 stars More Than Just its Surface
    Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2019
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    Pretty Bones is a novella that follows the life of a young woman named Marlow as she questions her meaning in life, whether or not she can truly live, and her rare bone disease. On the surface, I wasn't expecting to be so emotionally impacted by Pretty Bones. In fact, for the story itself, I'm not. It's the other content next to Marlow's own questions and life that had me thinking. I actually had to put the book down for a few days, maybe only reading a few pages at a time. It's because I was having panic attacks.To clarify, I understand that it is irrational and that having panic attacks over cold hard facts is almost too silly to comprehend. I recognize it. However, it doesn't change the fact that it happens. If anything, it only proved to me more that the aspect of dying . . . no, I mean the end result of death, scares me.Pretty Bones is written in a way where you get the facts behind a funeral home. At first glance, this can seem to push out the main part of the story, but when thinking how much the funeral world is so closely ingrained in Marlow, it begins to make sense. That said, it is the facts that had me. I could go into depth about my own personal issues and I probably will in a regular blog post, but not for the review. To see my own fears and life, just check out the blog.Anyways, as I mentioned before, the book is written with the bulk of the facts about the funeral business with small vignettes of Marlow's day to day life. I personally didn't have a problem with having that information in the narrative and in fact, it didn't bother me when I could set aside my emotional brain. That said, there were parts in the book itself I wish happened more.There is a person mentioned in the book. She's dead, but her manner of death is mentioned. I realize that we don't always get an answer and I have a feeling that is what Lee's intention was, it just bums me out that we don't get that resolution behind her death. There is also a moment where Marlow is invited to go to a teen safe space with a classmate. I would have liked to have seen that.I think, I would have liked to see Marlow's life more. That said, I recognize what was being done here. Erin Lee was trying to show how a "life" can take control of a person's "living". We all end up in the same place, but not everyone can say they truly lived. And I think that is what Erin Lee is getting at with Marlow's story.She is telling us that we need to stop worrying about death. Stop worrying about our day to day life and responsibilities. Instead, we need to find little adventures in our life and actually live. So, yeah, when you really sit down and think about it, the story means something more than just hard cold facts. Unless I'm reading too much into it. But, I like my thoughts on it. All in all, I would read more of Erin Lee's work. Final Rating: 3/5
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  • Blackeagle
    5.0 out of 5 stars Life beyond the family business.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2019
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    Marlow Harris has big dreams after high school graduation that do not involve working for her families funeral business. Despite having brittle bone disease she has a strong I can do attitude which I admire. This book is well written and has a phenomenal storyline full can wait to Read The rest of her story.
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  • SHELBY
    4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Topic and characters....
    Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2019
    Was I suppose to get misty-eyed? Because I surely did. Marlow is a charming character and it was interesting to be able to follow her day-to-day activities. I wish this one was a little bit longer, but excited for the second book in the series.
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  • Stephanie Ayers
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great voice
    Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2019
    I love Marlow. Her voice just carries you along from one page to the next.
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  • SassyCat
    5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2019
    I always love the originality of Erin Lee's books. Marlow Harris was another endearing and unique character that I instantly wanted to know more about.
    The amount of research that went into this book was evident and it really blended with the story in a fabulous way.
    I loved this story and its multiple layers. I am looking forward to the next book in this series.
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  • KL
    5.0 out of 5 stars Not like anything I've read before!
    Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2019
    This book was amazing. You could clearly see the time and effort that went into it. All the detail in the book wasn't lost in the story.
    Marlow is a character you can't help but fall in love with. Her journey in this book had me flipping page after page wanting more!
    I can't wait to see what book two brings. Lee's talent is truly amazing!
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  • THartman
    5.0 out of 5 stars You will love it!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2019
    I would love to spend a day in Erin’s head, she comes up with the best characters and her ideas for her amazing books are never ending. Marlow is by far one of my new favorite characters, just her inner monologue had me in tears, love her!
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