John Meaney's "Bone Song", #98

[katikat]

There have been four celebrity murders already. Now it’s up to Lieutenant Donal Riordan to make sure that Tristopolis isn’t the scene of a fifth. But the necropolis’s vast underground network is already mobilizing for a battle of epic proportions against a powerful death cult whose dark influence reaches up to the highest echelons of Tristopolis’s elite. Riordan’s only hope is an unlikely alliance with a para-live female agent as they hunt—both aboveground and below—among gargoyles and zombies, spirit slaves and assassins, for the killers even the dead have reason to fear.

Review: Wow. Okay, the beginning was a bit slow and it took me a while to get into the book - but then I couldn't put it down. The world that John Meaney built is stunning, a world where everything runs on the power of the dead, mostly their bones. It's scary and creepy and it takes time to get used to, to be perfectly honest. The setting aside, this is basically a mystery book. I fell in love with it once Donal joined Laura's team. I'm now really curious how the team members will react to what happened in the last chapter, at the very end of the book. That means I will be reading the next one in the series for sure!

The most captivating quote? Do you hear the bones?

Comments

[twilight-angel.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sounds fascinating. I'm definitely going to have to check that out when I'm done the series I'm reading now. And in or out of context, Do you hear the bones? is incredibly creepy. Thanks for the rec! :)

[katikat.livejournal.com]

I was reviewing this one for my boss and at first, I couldn't get into it. I think it was because it takes in an alternate universe, basically, where everything has a different name, so no Europe or New York or whatever, but Tristopolis, Illuria etc. That took some time getting used to :P