How do you catch something that can disappear in the wind? How do you destroy it before it destroys you? Well, that’s what Danny needs to find the answer to in Bonechiller by Graham McNamee. Danny and his friends live in a rural military town in northern Canada. Danny is there because he and his father have been running for years from their former town Toronto. Danny thinks there is absolutely nothing in Harvest Cove, but that all changes when he is attacked by some animal in the dead of the night. Danny is confused and needs answers, but he doesn’t know where to find them. He is on a race against time to figure out what it is before he, or anyone else, gets hurt or even killed.
The characters we meet in the first chapter are Danny’s friends. Pike is a crazy guy who loves doing illegal stuff and exploding things. He’s the son of a drill sergeant, but is too insane to follow into the military. He has a bright red Mohawk and an endearing personality and will do anything for a bang. But he will do anything for his brother; he’s so proud of Howie, and believes every word he says no matter what it is or how crazy. In the first two chapters he blows up a convenient store after stealing a ton of candy. He gets even wilder as the book goes on.
Howie’s the little brother of Pike, but he’s so smart he skipped two grades into theirs. He’s a polar opposite of Pike, always worrying about things, and he doesn’t have a stomach for the crazy things Pike does. He’s a really sweet guy who is just a little strange. He likes to eat doughnuts and candy, and drink coke, but he doesn’t like real food. Danny comes to him after he’s attacked by the creature to figure out what the footsteps were, but even Howie can’t tell what it is. Danny tells a limited version of what happened that night to Howie and Ash, then later the whole story when Howie gets in trouble.
Ash is the only girl of the group, not that she acts like it though. She’s an army-brat too and a boxer. She goes to competitions all over Canada to box, and she’s really good. After a match in the book, she’s still undefeated. She seems to have a secret thing for Danny, but she doesn’t let anyone else know about it, except Danny. After she kisses him, he kinda thinks they’re a couple, but you can never get anything like that out of Ash. She’s Indian, so she knows stories of creatures and shares that knowledge with Danny after he’s attacked, but Ash doesn’t believe in ghost stories. She thinks they are all crazy until she sees it with her own eyes.
This is an extremely good, fast-paced, wild ride, and it’s only the first part of the book. It’s very exciting, especially the attack. It was incredible and grabbed my attention so early. I wanted to read this book all the way to the end. It was such an adventure, and it’s not over yet. When Danny gets attacked, when his friends are attacked and I’m assuming it only gets better. I’m only half through, on page 157; chapter 19. I’m amazed at how quickly the action started and how it never really slowed down that much. I look forward to how fast the end is going to be.
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