 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book review. Today we are talking about A Book of Bones by John Connolly. So for this one, the very first thing I want to talk about is how I haven't reviewed the rest of the series. I think the other books tended more toward telling a story to get to this point. This feels like the end of an era kind of deal, even though it's not an end to... Actually, I'll leave that because it might be a spoiler for some of you guys. But in this one, Charlie is on the hunt for The Atlas, which is a book that changes, could bring on the end of the world. And also, I have to make note of this. Atria Publishing sent me this book for review free of charge in exchange for this review. I am going to give it right off the bat four stars. I'm giving it four stars because this time I do feel like this one was a little long-winded. There was a lot of stuff. I felt you hear it all the time. People say, oh, you could have cut 200 pages out of this. But there's actually some chapters that I think could be getting gotten rid of completely. And it wouldn't affect the book whatsoever. As always, the highlights of this book are Charlie, Angel, and Louis. Louis, whichever one you want to use. I've heard the audiobook call them both. But I tend toward calling him Louis. Those three characters are always a pleasure. And I cannot wait for the nameless ones because it's another angel in Louis book. I'm not sure Parker's in it at all. I know it happens in Amsterdam. And they go to Amsterdam in this book. So I'm not 100% sure if it is a parallel story to this one. I was expecting something more with Sam in this book. I won't say what because if you haven't read the other books, then it'd be a spoiler. But his daughter, Sam, has been playing a very, very major role. And this time around, it was a little bit more. But it wasn't what I expected. Not that it was not that that stuff was bad. It's just I was expecting a little bit more. We get a little like an eyedropper of progress. We've been getting these little drops of progress over the course of the past five books, I believe. And it just it's it's not enough. I did enjoy it. I did get through it. But I am going to knock off the star because it did feel over long at the ending. And in fact, I was at three stars before the ending came along. The ending is absolutely stellar. It's fantastic. I enjoyed every bit of it. There's little Easter eggs to other books, much earlier earlier books, all the way back to I think it's book three that I really appreciated because I was wondering I was wondering what happened to these characters on the other side as it were. And I think we got I think we got I got the answers that I wanted. The last thing I want to talk about is is kind of a question is is this book a good culmination of the storyline up until this point? And I feel that it is I wanted a bit more, but I'm not going to rate this based on my expectations. It went places that I kind of saw coming, except for the ending. It's just more the same from the past five books, you know, going around tracking. I mean, it is a detective fiction thriller, whatever you want to call it, just Charlie running around and Angel and Louis running around. And it got to the point where I just wanted to get to the end. And I like I said, I bumped it all the way down to three stars until that fantastic ending. Do I think that you should read the entire series? I think this is important because this is book 17. There's 18 books so far. The Dirty South came after this one. But it's actually a prequel. The Nameless Ones continues on the story. And then there's supposedly another one coming after that that brings us back around to Charlie. So and this is all rumor mill kind of stuff. So people piecing together stuff that Connolly has said on Twitter and newsletters and things like that. Do I think you should read the entire series? Yes, I think you should. Especially if you're going to read this book. It was sold to me. It was well, I was told that it was a standalone, but I don't think you can read the last five books as a standalone. I think you can read up to think numbers 11 as a standalone, the first three or four kind of, you know, intercut into each other also. But by the by the end of the series, you have to have read these other books or you're not going to catch very important stuff. So this is definitely not a standalone. But that's where I'm going to leave this review. I know it's very vague. I'm just giving you my opinions on the series thus far. I'm going to continue reading it because Charlie Angel and Louis are my some of my favorite characters in fiction period. And I suggest you go and check out the series as a whole. It is on the entire series is on Scribe. There's a link down there in the doobly-doo. If you want to get a free month and my kids get a free month, it's their account that I'm linking to. They get a free month for every single one of you who sign up. So if you'd like to do that, I appreciate you. If not, no worries. It's not sponsored. I'm not getting paid to say that. I'm just trying to pass along a free month and trying to get my kids, you know, unlimited audio books. But if you want to help, I appreciate it. Have you read a book of bones or are you reading the Charlie Parker series? I'd love to hear from you whether or not you love it, hate it, whether you're mad about it. If you feel any of those things, explain to me why so that we can have a discussion. But until next time, I have an E. You have an U. This has been another book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye.