Review: Marrow - Tarryn Fisher

Review: Marrow - Tarryn Fisher - April 2016

For most people, they have only really discovered Tarryn Fisher in the later years with her books The Three Wives, The Wrong Family, and An Honest Lie, or with her collab Never Never with Colleen Hoover.  However, some of us keen readers, first discovered her when she started writing her series The Opportunist which is still one of my favourite series. Like her earlier books, Marrow is still in her vein of those books that are considered dark, edgy, and slightly weird and quirky. Marrow is called the body part "Bone Marrow" and features a few times in the book starting with The Bone House where our main female lead Margo Moon lives with her mum and a revolving door of men. Margo hates her home and calls it The Eating House as it devours your soul slowly till there is nothing less and you are left as a shell of your former self. The suburb is also one of those crackhouse-type ghetto ones where if you are lucky to get out, get out otherwise you will be stuck here forever in a neverending cycle of generational trauma. Margo's life slowly starts to change when she finally strikes up a conversation with neighbour Judah, the pair become fast friends and he inspires motivation in her to get out while she can. During the book, several murders also happen including a couple of children. This leads Margo down a track of becoming a vigilante ridding the world of evil, but what happens when one of those evil men overpowers her, and she ends up becoming someone she never wanted to be? I am still a little confused about what I read and it is one of those books that is hard to explain but still a good quirky edgy read which is also dark in quite a few places, not for the faint-hearted. After reading this I am now interested in reading her book Atheists Who Kneel and Pray which BTW isn't a religious read despite the title.

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