Bookshops and Bonedust
ISBN: 9781035007356
Description
Viv’s career with the renowned mercenary company Rackam’s Ravens isn’t going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she’s packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk – so far from the action that she worries she’ll never be able to return to it. What’s a thwarted soldier of fortune to do?
Reviewed on 31st December 2023
In this prequel to the author’s first novel, Legends and Lattes, we meet a young Viv, early on an adventuring career, and forced to take a convalescent sea-side holiday.
The ensuing plot will be little surprise to readers of the first novel and this one’s title, although there are some great new characters to meet and get to know.
It feels like something aspects of the story are very much drawn from the author’s real life experience of bookshops, and this makes for some of the most amusing passages.
I felt overall that it’s not quite recaptured the same charm as the first novel, but that was a lot to live up to, and it’s still a solid cosy fantasy novel to curl up with.
