The Bone Dragon, Alexia Casale
The Bone Dragon, Alexia Casale
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The Bone Dragon

Author: Alexia Casale

Narrator: Sasha Higgins

Unabridged: 9 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/11/2022

Synopsis

Evie's shattered ribs have been a secret for the last four years. Now she has found the strength to tell her adoptive parents, and the physical traces of her past are fixed—the only remaining signs a scar on her side and a fragment of bone taken home from the hospital, which her uncle Ben helps her to carve into a dragon as a sign of her strength.

Soon this ivory talisman begins to come to life at night, offering wisdom and encouragement in roaming dreams of smoke and moonlight that come to feel ever more real.

As Evie grows stronger there remains one problem her new parents can't fix for her: a revenge that must be taken. And it seems that the Dragon is the one to take it.

This subtly unsettling novel is told from the viewpoint of a fourteen-year-old girl damaged by a past she can't talk about, in a hypnotic narrative that, while giving increasing insight, also becomes increasingly unreliable.

A blend of psychological thriller and fairy tale, The Bone Dragon explores the fragile boundaries between real life and fantasy, and the darkest corners of the human mind.

About Alexia Casale

A British-American citizen of Italian heritage, Alexia Casale is an author, teacher, and writing consultant. After studying psychology then educational technology at Cambridge University (England), she moved to New York. There she worked on the Tony Award-winning 2004 Broadway revival of "La Cage aux Folles," working with legendary composer Jerry Herman and multiple Tony Award winners Harvey Fierstein, director Jerry Zaks, and choreographer Jerry Mitchell. She has family ties in California and New York, where all four of her paternal great-grandparents arrived from Eastern Europe and were processed at Ellis Island.

After returning to the UK, Alexia completed a PhD and teaching qualification. In between, she worked as a West End script-critic, box-office manager for a music festival, and executive editor of a human rights journal. She loves cats, collects glass animals, and has a particular fondness for medieval sleeves.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lauren on May 10, 2013

Rating: 7/10 For four years, 14-year-old Evie has been living with broken ribs after being abused by her grandparents. Although she was adopted by Amy and Paul, who proved to be loving, devoted parents, it took three years before she trusted them enough to tell them about the pain and what it meant.......more

Goodreads review by Basically Britt on May 03, 2018

I enjoyed the first 100 pages or so, but then I was just bored throughout the rest of the book.......more

Goodreads review by Noodles78 on October 10, 2017

I found this dark, angry dreamlike tale enthralling from start to finish. Evie' s past was dripfed to the reader, without outlining what happened completely. To start with I found this infuriating, but having thought about it, I feel that this would be how Evie would have preferred it. However, what......more

Goodreads review by Georgina on April 27, 2014

I picked up The Bone Dragon in my library not knowing anything about the book or it’s author. It was in the young adult section, I liked the cover, there were good reviews quoted (although none from any major newspapers) and I thought the blurb was interesting: "Dreams are the fire that warms the sou......more

Goodreads review by Kelley on August 09, 2013

If you like a slower, more subdued read, then The Bone Dragon might be a good choice for you. There are a lot of tough issues addressed in this book, and they were often subtly and carefully explored. Evie’s traumatic past and delicate relationships with her foster family are handled very well. I co......more

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