Reviews for Prayer of the Bone

The average rating for Prayer of the Bone based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-11-30 00:00:00 Craig Corrigan A woman working at a dig is found dead, with her face badly clawed, as though by a bear. Obvious alert - a bear didn't do it. This novel is an unusual mix of genres. It feels like a police procedural, with the kinda Irish detective who vaguely hates himself. It feels like literary fiction, with fancy descriptions of the forest and the snow. It's historical, with odd 1600s Native American history. Sounds pretty cool, right? I thought so too. Main gripe: Cop falls in love with obvious person for obviously no reason. And she's like "Why won't he just kiss me?" *hair flip* #ladyproblems My favorite thing was the disturbed daughter who sleepwalked and had a thing with bears. Kinda creepy, kinda shallow. A good winter read.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-05-17 00:00:00 Lionso Sandoval Beautifully written mystery. Complicated, twisted, but that just makes it better. Two sisters are very different, although they grew up together in a wealthy British home, after their father left America and remarried. One is steady, the other a free spirit. They are sent to boarding school together, but the free spirit doesn't do well in that atmosphere. Steady sister develops the habit of saving her sister from every mis-step, mistake, and bad decision until the sister moves to America and is murdered. Steady sister travels to America, where she discovers that her sister was finding her Native American roots in an archeological dig. The history of the dig is the spine of the story. Was there a massacre in 1650 or was there simply a story about a massacre to keep reparations from being paid? Holds your attention to the last page, and the twists and turns are neatly wrapped up.