![]() ![]() ![]() She’s fascinated by the science of the unnatural creatures that exist in her world. ![]() She’s disconnected from society, and prefers it that way. There’s something decidedly off about Nita, mostly because of the pleasure she garners in the dissection of others. ![]() Which is all well and good for her own sanity, but when she’s kidnapped by people worse than her mother, she realizes that not everyone has morals like hers. Until the day her mother brings home a live one, and Nita realizes that there are some lines she just won’t cross. She doesn’t think about them as people, just dead beings that, once sold, will earn her family money. Nita finds peace in the action of dividing up creatures (who often look human, mind you) into their most basic parts. There might be something wrong with Nita: her favorite thing to do, the thing that brings her a sense of fulfillment, is dissect the corpses of the “unnaturals” that her mother, a bona-fide monster hunter, brings home. And I suppose it kind of is, but not in the stereotypical sense my brain wants/expects it to be. Anti-Bonus Factor: Dan Scott Award for Awful ParentingĬontent Warning: Not Even Bones is a graphic novel (not in the illustration sense) that features scenes of violence and torture that might be triggering for some readers.Įven though I know what the book is about, every time I look at this cover I think it’s some sort of crime thriller with a medical twist. ![]()
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