1) Did The Bone Bed hold your interest?
2) Did you care about the characters?
3) Would you recommend it to your friends who like this kind of fiction?
4) Would you buy and reread this book?
5) What is the significance of the title?
6) Did you feel like you were missing out because of not having read the rest of the series?
7) Did the characters seem real and believable? Could you relate to their predicaments? To what extent did they remind you of yourself or someone you know?
8) Did the book have a central theme? If so what? Did it have many themes? If so how did they interlink?
9) In what ways did the events in the books reveal evidence of the author’s world view or attitude toward life?
10) Did certain parts of the book make you uncomfortable? If so, why did you feel that way? Did this lead to a new understanding or awareness of some aspect of your life you might not have thought about before?
11) Did you like the book? If you have read any of the author’s other books, how did this compare? Is it possible to find a book interesting without really enjoying reading it?
12) What did you think of the plot line development? How credible did the author make it?
13) How did you feel about the characters? Whom did you like or not like and why? Did the characters seem real and believable? Can you relate to their predicaments? To what extent did they remind you of yourself or someone you know?
14) In a movie version, who would play what parts?
15) What type of vision did the author use with her word choice? Is it optimistic, pessimistic, prophetic, cautionary, humorous, satirical, venomous, cathartic?
16) What do you think will happen to the characters next? Where will the author go with her next book in this series?