{"id":12146,"date":"2019-10-13T17:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=12146"},"modified":"2024-06-12T19:59:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T23:59:55","slug":"the-mystery-of-the-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/12146","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of the Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mystery of the Bones<\/a><\/em> (2019) C.S. Poe<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The fourth (and perhaps final) Snow & Winter book finds Sebastian trying to plan their wedding–and not particularly enjoying it. But he is determined it will be perfect, and that means following all the books and rules.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a whole industry dedicated to specialized bras for wedding dresses,\u201d I continued.<\/p>\n

Calvin\u2019s silence was palpable confusion. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey make adhesive bras,\u201d I concluded. \u201cWhich\u2026 sounds pretty awful.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAlmost lost my nipple to one of those,\u201d Quinn stated. \u201cHad a rash for three days from the residue.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I do like Quinn.<\/p>\n

I also really like Sebastian’s father.<\/p>\n

I walked to the kitchen area on the left of the spacious apartment layout, opened a cupboard, and removed two mugs. \u201cBut something happened and I blew chunks.\u201d <\/p>\n

Pop set the pot down with a minor clatter and looked at me. \u201cAre you sick?\u201d He did the parent hand-on-forehead maneuver.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also, Sebastian is still freaked out over the events from the past summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cLife isn\u2019t all about money, Seb.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYou can say that. You don\u2019t have a hospital bill the length of a CVS receipt.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But mostly I just like Sebastian.<\/p>\n

My brain felt like a library card catalog, and I was in a mad rush to find the one title that would help me navigate this sensitive situation with relative success. <\/p>\n

Filed under social sciences. Should I start with 302.2\u2014 Social interaction, communication? 305.3\u2014 Groups of people, by gender or sex? Hold up, 306.7 has a footnote\u2014 for problems and controversies concerning various sexual relations, see 363.4<\/em>. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is why no one likes you,\u201d I muttered while raising my head. \u201cYou\u2019re in the bathroom making Dewey Decimal jokes to yourself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sebastian swears he does NOT want to play private detective ever again. He is done with that, both for his own health and for Cal’s sanity.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, someone thinks differently.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019re your eyes doing?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cMoving,\u201d I answered, my tone more dry than white bread left on too high a setting in the toaster. My Dancing Eyes condition was hardly noticeable as an adult, but still they wobbled involuntarily at times. \u201cI have achromatopsia. Sometimes my eyes move strangely when I get stressed.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re stressed?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYes, Officer,\u201d I said with a hint <\/em>of mockery. \u201cI\u2019ve only had one cup of coffee and found a head in a box.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYour stressed is pretty calm, Mr. Snow.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As with the previous book, the mystery is outlandish, but she does a good job walking the line and mostly doesn’t go into ridiculousness to far-fetched it throws me out of the story. That’s actually a harder line to walk than you’d think. If you’re going to write a book set in “the real world” and are going to be over-the-top, you have to make sure that the rest of your story is grounded and correct. And she does this for me. Calvin and Sebastian are real people with real issues who are working hard to deal with those issues. They have jobs that require their time, and they have family members and friends. All those things are grounded in reality, so I’m good with the mystery being crazy.<\/p>\n

Not that it was a bad mystery, because it wasn’t. But the characters are what I liked best.<\/p>\n

Publisher: DSP Publication
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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But he is determined it will be perfect, and that means following all the books and rules. \u201cThere\u2019s a whole industry dedicated to specialized bras for wedding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[191,207,8,42,148,26,56],"tags":[50,180,544,212,473],"class_list":["post-12146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-5-10","category-mental-health-rep","category-mystery","category-police","category-queer","category-romance","category-sexual-content","tag-boinking","tag-c-s-poe","tag-mm","tag-ptsd","tag-snow-winter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-39U","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14073,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/14073","url_meta":{"origin":12146,"position":0},"title":"The Mystery of the Bones","author":"Michelle","date":"March 9, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The Mystery of the Bones (2019) C.S. 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