The Bone Maker by Sarah Beth Durst
Sarah Beth Durst was one of my favourite authors of last year - with Racing the Sand among the top few favourite novels of mine. And this year, she does it again with The Bone Maker, one of the most anticipated releases of the year from the author. The Bone Maker is a standalone fantasy novel, a rarity among today's multi-volume epic stories and that itself is a matter of curiosity. But Sarah's done this before with her previous book and I was confident about her ability to spin a self-contained highly entertaining story with all the rollicking elements of high fantasy within. So The Bone Maker explores the facets of the Hero's Journey, except ...wait for it..the hero is a middle-aged woman, trying to piece together her life in the aftermath of the big war. It's an unusual subject but deftly handled, where Sarah immerses us into a richly drawn fantasy world on the back of a fabulous magic system based on bones. Kreya is the leader of the five heroes, the fabled...