by Stephen R. Lawhead
Engaging. I've enjoyed Lawhead's works ever since reading his book on St. Patrick. This first installment of a trilogy seemed like a comparable plot to Robert Liparulo's series "The Dreamhouse Kings," but this is more deeply told. Looking forward to reading more.
Another wonderful Stephen Lawhead novel with great ideas. But I am seriously confused... I hope some of this confusion is alleviated in the further books as I read them throughout 2013.
This book started out with so much promise. Time travel to places and times at random, a damsel in distress, a hero and the bad guys. And then the book goes nowhere fast. Instead of the plot advancing, it bogs down early and never really gets going again. And there goes the potential.The prose is go...
I recently received an electronic copy of The Bone House by Stephen R. Lawhead. I have Mr. Lawhead's quartet on the Arthurian Legend and enjoy his writing. I found though, that The Bone House was the second book in his Bright Empires series and decided to start with the first book, The Skin Map....
C. Christopher "Kit" Livingstone is an average 20-something male. He is employed and has a girlfriend, and he isn't happy with either one. Kit's life changes when he meets his great-grandfather and is taught about ley lines that provide for inter-dimensional time travel -- different times and altern...
This book would have ended up on the DNF shelf if I hadn't committed to writing a review. While the beginning was relatively auspicious (flavors of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Into the Woods), I soon realized that "flavors" and "hints" was as much development as this story had to offe...
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