The Cold is In Her Bones Blog Tour Plus Review

One girl must uncover secrets of the past to save her friend from a terrible curse in this dark and mesmerizing story of love, revenge, and redemption inspired by the myth of Medusa.

Milla knows two things to be true: Demons are real, and fear will keep her safe.

Milla’s whole world is her family’s farm. She is never allowed to travel to the village and her only friend is her beloved older brother, Niklas. When a bright-eyed girl named Iris comes to stay, Milla hopes her loneliness might finally be coming to an end. But Iris has a secret she’s forbidden to share: The village is cursed by a demon who possesses girls at random, and the townspeople live in terror of who it will come for next.

Now, it seems, the demon has come for Iris. When Iris is captured and imprisoned with other possessed girls, Milla leaves home to rescue her and break the curse forever. Her only company on the journey is a terrible new secret of her own: Milla is changing, too, and may soon be a demon herself.

Suspenseful and vividly imagined, The Cold Is in Her Bones is a novel about the dark, reverberating power of pain, the yearning to be seen and understood, and the fragile optimism of love.

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As I was introduced to Milla, I was immediately intrigued. The curse had been on the village for what seemed to be a while by the time she was born, and she had grown up putting salt by windows and doors to keep the demons away. Children were being possessed by demons, and if you were taken to “The Place,” you were never going to return. Girls in the village lived in fear, and Milla was forbidden from seeing them. The only friend she had was her brother, and eventually, even he grew up. He wanted to be married and have a proper life, and his parents were ready to prepare him for that. Milla was going to lose her only companion, until Iris shows up. Milla instantly knows that they were meant to meet, she knows that Iris was meant to be her friend. Then when Iris is possessed and begs Milla to keep her from having to go to the Place against her will.

Milla and Iris are truly great friends from the start. Something was always a bit off about Iris, but something was just a bit off about this whole story. Arsdale is a great storyteller, and she builds an atmosphere of dread throughout the entire book. Why did Milla’s family live outside the village? Why couldn’t Milla have any friends? Why did putting salt down stop demons from coming into your house? All these simple things just made you feel like something wasn’t right until the truth is revealed. I won’t spoil it, but it definitely surprised me! I instantly went from being like “this book is pretty good” to saying “wow I am loving this book!”

I would definitely recommend this suspenseful read to anyone looking for a new fantasy novel to read. I would warn you though, some scenes can be a little gross or disturbing. As long as you aren’t easily creeped out by things, you should be able to make it through this read. I did, and I’m pretty weak when it comes to unnatural stuff.

I received an advance copy of this book and this is my honest review.