Saturday, October 18, 2025

Bone, Volume 5: Rock Jaw Master of the Eastern Border by Jeff Smith

Bone, Volume 5: Rock Jaw Master of the Eastern Border by Jeff Smith
Bone, 116 pages

⭐⭐⭐/5

Synopsis (from Goodreads)
Trying to return a rat creature cub to the mountains, Fone & Smiley Bone encounter yet another adversary: the sly and mighty mountain lion, Rock Jaw.

In this fifth volume of the BONE saga, Fone and Smiley Bone strike out into the wilderness to return a lost rat creature cub to the mountains. It doesn't take long before they run smack into Rock Jaw, "Master of the Eastern Border," an enormous mountain lion with a none-too-friendly disposition. Life gets even more complicated when they befriend a group of baby animals who are being orphaned by rat creature attacks. Everything comes to a head in an earth-shattering clash between Rock Jaw and Kingdok, the leader of the rat creatures.

Review
This volume really slowed down the story, because they spend the entire time on this mountain and it gets a little repetitive. It offers up a bit more of the lore, but it was probably the most boring way to do so. The characters are just so likeable that it makes it hard to completely dislike any of these volumes.

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