6/29/2023 0 Comments City of bones book review![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The only people who can move freely through the desert are the Kris, a humanoid race bioengineered by the last of the ancient technologists to survive the worst the desert can do and with whom humanity has an uneasy relationship.įrom the start, I found ‘City Of Bones’ to be breathtakingly good. The story is set in a world that long ago was turned almost entirely into a deadly desert, leaving the remnants of humanity living in small stone cities built into coastal cliffs. It tells of powerful people competing to find and control artefacts of an ancient technology that they think will give them powers that are almost magical. How did I miss it back in 1995? Well, perhaps I read the publisher’s summary which makes it sound like Indiana Jones meets Alladin, and passed. I found ‘City Of Bones’, released in 1995, two decades before Murderbot, and what a find it turned out to be. The next one won’t be released for another eight month’s so I decided to try out Martha Wells’ back catalogue. I came to ‘City Of Bones’ via the ‘Murderbot Diaries’ I’d read each instalment as came out and enjoyed them all. ![]()
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