Chris Horne
This generation’s great children’s fantasy book.
It’s perfect, this is a perfect book. Buy it for your children, buy it for yourself, buy it for your grandmother. I hope that it is well read and that millions of children get from it what I got from Northern Lights.
It is a brilliantly fantastic book, it feels both modern and effortlessly readable in style but also like the telling of a myth. There are moral questions that present themselves without smashing you in the face and a group of characters that you route for all that way.
While this is a children’s book it pulls no punches with its emotional content, and neither should it. Bad things happen in real life and bad things happen in to the characters in this book. There are consequences to their actions, nothing good comes easily for them but they do it anyway.
I could go on about this book all day but I want. Just stop reading this review and go and read the book immediately.
This generation’s great children’s fantasy book.
It’s perfect, this is a perfect book. Buy it for your children, buy it for yourself, buy it for your grandmother. I hope that it is well read and that millions of children get from it what I got from Northern Lights.
It is a brilliantly fantastic book, it feels both modern and effortlessly readable in style but also like the telling of a myth. There are moral questions that present themselves without smashing you in the face and a group of characters that you route for all that way.
While this is a children’s book it pulls no punches with its emotional content, and neither should it. Bad things happen in real life and bad things happen in to the characters in this book. There are consequences to their actions, nothing good comes easily for them but they do it anyway.
I could go on about this book all day but I want. Just stop reading this review and go and read the book immediately.
Mystery and magic in a ancient Roman Setting.
This books takes troupes that fantasy book fans love and executes them brilliantly, it even manages to breath life into a magic school. The book then adds a unique setting and magic system to the mix. However the thing that makes this book brilliant is the complex political situation our main character finds himself in. One wrong move could mean his own or others death, who can he trust? How can he keep his promises and protect himself and his friends? Can he get out of this and keep his morality? These questions make every page tense even when slice of life action is happening. I hope Will is busy writing the sequel because I will eat that thing up!
Mystery and magic in a ancient Roman Setting.
This books takes troupes that fantasy book fans love and executes them brilliantly, it even manages to breath life into a magic school. The book then adds a unique setting and magic system to the mix. However the thing that makes this book brilliant is the complex political situation our main character finds himself in. One wrong move could mean his own or others death, who can he trust? How can he keep his promises and protect himself and his friends? Can he get out of this and keep his morality? These questions make every page tense even when slice of life action is happening. I hope Will is busy writing the sequel because I will eat that thing up!
The anti Abercrombie.
I am not the target audience for this book. I love Grimdark, I love grey characters and i love cynical humour.
Bookshops and Bone Dust is none of the above, the characters are good, they do good things and are rewarded for their efforts. Boring right? Wrong! The author executes the story so well that the characters, rather than being sickly sweet, feel like real people who make real decisions. They just choose to be kind to each other.
There are two plots in this book, a low stakes and a higher stakes one. I found myself caring about the low stakes plot and found the higher stakes an unnecessary distraction. I can go to thousands of other fantasy books for life and death situations. I come to this world to spend time with a wonderful bunch of characters being nice to each other in nice places and that is when this book is at its best. Oh and when it describes the cake. Do not read when hungry.
The anti Abercrombie.
I am not the target audience for this book. I love Grimdark, I love grey characters and i love cynical humour.
Bookshops and Bone Dust is none of the above, the characters are good, they do good things and are rewarded for their efforts. Boring right? Wrong! The author executes the story so well that the characters, rather than being sickly sweet, feel like real people who make real decisions. They just choose to be kind to each other.
There are two plots in this book, a low stakes and a higher stakes one. I found myself caring about the low stakes plot and found the higher stakes an unnecessary distraction. I can go to thousands of other fantasy books for life and death situations. I come to this world to spend time with a wonderful bunch of characters being nice to each other in nice places and that is when this book is at its best. Oh and when it describes the cake. Do not read when hungry.