The Secrets of Blood and Bone
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- £9.99
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
Venice, 16th Century
Having undertaken a mission of the upmost discretion, occultist and scholar Edward Kelley finds his ultimate salvation means confronting the darkest deeds of his past.
England, 21st Century
When Jackdaw Hammond inherits an old house in the middle of nowhere her fresh start is threatened by a wild magic similar to her own. The battle for her soul has just begun...
A stunning follow-up to The Secrets of Life and Death, a gripping supernatural thriller that bridges time, legend and the power of blood.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This awkward sequel to 2014's The Secrets of Life and Death shares that volume's strengths and weaknesses. Once again, the sections set in the past are much more compelling than those in the present. Edward Kelley, the real-life assistant to 16th-century necromancer John Dee, has traveled to Venice on a secret assignment, only to be robbed of his possessions almost immediately. He also manages to run afoul of the Inquisition, which suspects him of raising a demon that "feasts on children." The modern-day plot lines, involving different types of vampires (sanguinary, energy, etc.), come across as dull and derivative; the major characters in those sections, Felix Guichard (an academic who has studied Dee and Kelley) and Jackdaw Hammond (a woman who's survived an encounter with a sadistic serial killer), just aren't as well developed as Kelley. Readers not invested in Felix and Jackdaw from the prior book may find themselves tuning out when these characters are in focus.
