Review: I love the premise but....
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2013
It is easy to be negative about a book but when the premise of the story lures you in you want to give the author the chance to tell their story. Escape the Bone Yard is this kind of novel. I gave it my all as I wanted to become a true believer. Trouble with science fiction and fantasy is that they are speculative genres. We the reader want to be wowed by ideas of future possibilities and abilities but we also need to understand what the writer is coloring in for us in the narrative. Bone Yard reads like a first draft. It has all of the writers ideas but none of the 'flesh' that would make it a great read. Ideas and imagery are all smashed together-incoherently most of the time- so that any real pleasure in the narrative is lost. It is a story line though that deserves editorial reviewing and fleshing out and if that happens I will be first in line to give it another read. Peter Eerden