A boring gender bent version of Beowulf, the Boneless Mercies is a tale of a depressed mercy killer named Frey and her group of friends. After killing a bunch of sick, depressed and weak people, they go to kill a monster... thats the story. A lot of death, a lot of darkness, yet no suspense. This is a first. As she and her team pursue a way out of killing the weak and suicidal (which is debatably a horrible thing to do, but the morality of this is never addressed, which could have been very deep and interesting. Looking at the duality of killing someone as an act of mercy would be a fascinating topic, but nope, its just brushed off and is ignored).The Boneless Mercies is just so borrrrring. It wasn't agonizingly bad, I just had to force myself to keep picking it up. This is the first time I have read a book containing this much violence with so much gore, yet at the same time be so freaking boring. There was very minimal fun Norse stuff in a gender bent story of the Norse classic of Beowulf. It was such a disappointment. Also, it felt nothing like the tale of Beowulf. I may not be an expert in the subject, but I at least know the gist of Beowulf, and i found barley any recognizable key parts of Beowulf in this book. I do not recommend this book. I give The Boneless Mercies the rating of TWO STARS OUT OF FIVE!!!
*Advanced Readers Copy Review*
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