The Bone Ships: Winner of the Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel (The Tide Child Trilogy)

Reviews

Maria S

So many tantalising little mysteries. I loved that RJ Barker spent time exploring other races, their characteristics, and the attempt to encounter them on their own terms rather than based on assumptions that do not work.

Dragon Rider

So imaginative. At the beginning I felt a bit as if thrown in at deep end, a bit like learning a new language in a foreign country and slightly struggling with it; but surrendering to it, all soon became clear.

Hedolly

I would never intentionally seek out sea based fantasy but the ones I have read I have very much enjoyed (The Liveship Traders anyone? And through it all, an undercurrent of optimism. It is about relationships, character development, initiation. * And I must mention that the chapter heading illustrations are just beautiful!

HiuGregg

It is about friendship and gaining trust, loyalty, shifting allegiances, betrayal. A book I shall return to. This is very much sea based, we rarely stand on solid ground and are surrounded by a whole new terminology and way of being. Satisfying ending, too.