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Here’s my book rant for you. Boneyard by Seanan McGuire.
It’s set in the Deadlands setting, so basically Wild West but with monsters and some magic.
The book is about a traveling circus and the woman who has to tend to the monster exhibits while raising her mute daughter and running from her crazy narcissistic and abusive husband.
Overall, I’d say the book is really good, but there one thing that really sticks a thorn in my side.
So the circus has a collection of various monsters. There’s these red pirhanna things with teeth so sharp they bite themselves constantly, sending them into a feeding frenzy. They’ve got crazy poisonous spiders with skull patterns on their backs, they’ve got wasps the size of your forearm, an ENORMOUS catfish, a corn stalker which is this this pumpkin headed plant person.
Then, there’s the bloodwire.
What is a bloodwire you might ask?
I can’t tell you because apparently the author can’t either.
Throughout the ENTIRE BOOK they are constantly alluding to the bloodwire as a creature they have, but never once is it described or shown in action.
At one point the book even goes “and she told the little girl about the bloodwire” but NEVER ONCE DO WE AS THE READERS GET TO KNOW WHAT IT IS.
It seemed like for the entire book, the author was building up mystery around the bloodwire, deliberately concealing it so she could reveal it at the end as the circus’ most dangerous monster, maybe it would come in handy in the book’s final confrontation.
Literally all of the other circus monsters are used, except the bloodwire. I’m half convinced the author forgot about it halfway through.
That’s my book rant
I feel like a curse has been passed onto me because now I desperately want to know wtf a bloodwire is but I know that there is no answer. It is a curiosity that cannot be satisfied