thegooddoctor
8/4/2023
This novella was expanded into the novel "The Prophet of Bones". Not to take anything away from the novel (Kosmatka is one of my favourite authors) - you really owe it to yourself to read the novella. Even if you read and enjoyed the novel - as I did - you still need to read the novella. The vovel is good - the novella is great!
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My rating system for this website (I have done reviews for ~80 "books" (including short stories, novelettes and novellas, as well as novels).
Their system is out of 5 stars, and allows you to use half-stars, so highest rating is 5 full stars, next-highest 4 ½ stars, etc. -- and lowest is ½ star. I did NOT want to space these ratings equally, giving just as much precedence to low-quality mush as to really good works. For that reason, I laid out my system as follows:
I begin with one star being equivalent to a rating of "C -". Progressing upwards, I add ½ star for each step, up to the maximum 5 stars, which is equivalent to a rating of "A"+. I reserve ½ star for BOMBS, there being no option of zero or negative stars.