The Bone House Review

The Bone House is the second in Stephen Lawhead’s Bright Empires series of novels, combining “hidden dimensions and lands in any possible alternate world–with a dose of time slippage thrown in for good measure.” This quote by Stephen Lawhead himself is taken from a brief essay at the end of The Bone House describing his own foray into the exploration of the idea of multiverses.

The story brought to us in The Bone House is a great follow-up to The Skin Map. We follow Kit and Wilhelmina and the various people they encounter along the way in their quest to understand ley travel and survive while doing so. The story advances while at the same time providing us insights into the background of some of the characters, fleshing them out and giving us a better understanding of their motivations. Without giving too much away, toward the end of the story, Kit encounters a stone-age group of people after one of his ley travels. Over time, Kit’s impression of them as “primitives” is replaced by a deeper understanding of them through his immersion into their daily living. Both the background information on characters and Kit’s interactions with the “primitives” are a reminder how we misjudge people by looking only at the surface, not bothering to try to understand them.

I enjoyed this book and I am very much looking forward to the next one, I just wish it was going to be sooner than a year from now!

Disclaimer: I received this book as a part of Thomas Nelson’s Booksneeze program.