by Greg Van Eekhout
There's very little about this book that I didn't love. It was one of those books that popped into my life at exactly the right time and hit every chord just right. When I started this book, and read through the opening scenes, I knew I had stumbled across something special. First of all, it's a h...
Like his father before him, Daniel Blackland is an Osteomancer (someone who attains magic by ingesting bones) At the age of 6, Daniel's father fed him his first set of bones hoping to make his son strong. It is a strength Daniel will need in days to come if he is stay alive. Daniel remembers all ...
4.5 to 5 starsHoly crap, what a great read. Imaginative, suspenseful, and fast-paced, Greg Van Eekhout's alternate LA is ruled by a bone eating osteomancer who gets his power from eating the bones of mythic creatures and absorbing their magic. Daniel is a thief, the son of a powerful osteomancer, ...
I don't think I'm going to rate this, because although the premise was really interesting -- and the beginning of the book held a lot of promise -- there are several styles of fiction that just do not click with me, like portal fiction (random person is picked up, teleported to a new world, has to f...
(Description nicked from B&N.com.) “When Daniel Blackland was six, he ingested his first bone fragment, a bit of kraken spine plucked out of the sand during a visit with his demanding, brilliant, and powerful magician father, Sebastian. When Daniel was twelve, he watched Sebastian die at the han...
You ever have that experience where you finish a book, and are left feeling all discombobulated; not sure exactly what time it is because the sun set while you were reading, and actually kind of hungry because you might have missed dinner? California Bones did that to me. It wasn’t an instant dra...
(I got an ARC through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.)3.5/4 stars, I can't exactly decide, but let's say 4, because I really liked the world depicted in this book.Somewhere at the end of the 19th century, or in the early 20th century, California cut ties with the rest of the USA. North ...
California Bones by Greg Van Eekhout There's something about a heist. Maybe it's that particular blend of recklessness and calculation, that absolute guarantee of unforeseen circumstances and impressive feats of resourcefulness to combat them, that peculiarly fast-paced and adrenaline-pumping gam...
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