Bone Gap -

Laura Ruby

Faber & Faber

2016

400 páginas

13h 20m

ISBN-13: 9780571332755

He'd been drawn here by the grass and the bees and the strange sensation that this was a magical place, that the bones of the world were a little looser here, double-jointed, twisting back on themselves, leaving spaces one could slip into and hide . . .

Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps - gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever. So when young, beautiful Roza goes missing, the people of Bone Gap aren't surprised. After all, it isn't the first time someone's slipped away and left Finn and Sean O'Sullivan on their own.

Finn knows that's not what happened with Roza. He knows she was taken, ripped from the cornfields by a man whose face he can't remember. But no one believes him anymore. Well, almost no one. Petey Willis, the beekeeper's daughter, suspects that lurking behind Finn's fearful shyness is a story worth uncovering. But as we, like Petey, follow the stories of Finn, Roza, and the people of Bone Gap - their melancholy pasts, their terrifying presents, their uncertain futures - the truth about what happened to Roza is slowly revealed. And it is stranger than you can possibly imagine

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Um toque de fantasia desnecessária

Bone Gap é uma boa história mas, inesperadamente, perdeu a chance de ser excelente por tentar acrescentar fantasia no meio de uma narrativa bastante concreta.

A primeira vista, Bone Gap parece um livro sobre abandono, sobre uma garota raptada e sobre uma cidade pequena. Tem alguns mistérios, algumas intrigas, bons personagens - todos meio estranhos, como é típico de histórias de cidades pequenas - com boas dinâmicas, alguns conflitos e um romancezinho.

Porém o livro enfraquece ao misturar fantasia no meio disso tudo - algo que, ao invés de amarrar as pontas soltas apenas parece enrolar mais as linhas e deixar a história mais infantil. É como se Laura Ruby tivesse uma barra de ouro nas mãos e, por algum motivo, acho que valeria mais se ela colocasse um patinho de borracha no pacote?