- Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (2 Sep 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0786951117
- ISBN-13: 978-0786951116
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.7 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,015,204 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Love and death walk hand in hand...
Dr. Sebastian Robarts is a man paralyzed by the fate of his adored wife, dead in childbirth, their only child with her. He searches for a way to build angels from women, a pastime known to Scotland Yard as murder. Robarts meets the Vistani seer named Trueblood, who becomes his assistant and leads him to the Antebellum-era domain of Riverbend, controlled by the sadistic Dr. Weldon, to create angels, unfettered by conventional morality, or even rules. When the murderer returns to earth, it is the task of a Vistani policeman and a woman with a strange connection to Robarts to stop him. If he can be stopped.
Heaven's Bones skillfully blends horror and steampunk and classic Victorian literary style into something exotic and fascinating.
Dr. Sebastian Robarts is a man paralyzed by the fate of his adored wife, dead in childbirth, their only child with her. He searches for a way to build angels from women, a pastime known to Scotland Yard as murder. Robarts meets the Vistani seer named Trueblood, who becomes his assistant and leads him to the Antebellum-era domain of Riverbend, controlled by the sadistic Dr. Weldon, to create angels, unfettered by conventional morality, or even rules. When the murderer returns to earth, it is the task of a Vistani policeman and a woman with a strange connection to Robarts to stop him. If he can be stopped.
Heaven's Bones skillfully blends horror and steampunk and classic Victorian literary style into something exotic and fascinating.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
confusing,
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This review is from: Heaven's Bones (Ravenloft: the Covenant) (Mass Market Paperback)
yes, confusing.
the back cover presentation is really interesting, it really struck me and i could not avoid buying the book, the whole concept is intriguing, but is the execution bad! too many characters you lose track of who's important and who's not (hint: most of them are not!), continual shifting of the narration from different places and times ensures that following the plot is nearly impossibile. is there a plot? well, if you keep the back cover presentation in mind, by half of the book you realize something in going on according to that general layout, but it's so poorly executed you need to remind yourself what you are expecting to actually notice it. is this ravenloft related? good thing it did not show! never liked that setting, but i'm referring to the ad&d 2nd edition ravenloft (the characters' butchering setting, for old pen and paper players like me) so this is a definite bonus. i have a soft spot for misty london horror stories, but.... well, there is almost no horror here so you keep asking yourself "again, why did i buy this?" so..... don't buy it, do yourself a favour, you can spend those pounds for something better. i really hope mrs henderson will improve her craft so she will have executions that are on the level with her interesting ideas.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable book, works well outside the tie-in universe,
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This review is from: Heaven's Bones (Ravenloft: the Covenant) (Mass Market Paperback)
A dark fantasy novel mostly set in Victorian Britain. Apparently Heaven's Bones is a tie-in to a wider universe, but it reads very well as a standalone to someone who has no idea about other works in the universe. There is an intriguing amount of weirdness: mists that seem to be sentient and allow movement between places; a mad grieving doctor's creation of disfigured "angels" from near-dead women; the man from another world/dimension who wants to use those angels; ghosts. The book's major weakness was not giving enough time to the development of Robarts' madness. One moment he's grieving, the next he's staring meaningfully at a book, and then he's carving up pregnant prostitutes. The development of the angels wasn't given enough time either; I wanted to know more about his experiments, his failures, how he progressed. We only get glimpses of all this, yet it's the central element of the book. Still, there was plenty in here to give me an enjoyable read.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not what I was hoping for,
By HJC "HJC" (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Heaven's Bones (Ravenloft: the Covenant) (Mass Market Paperback)
I agree with many of the comments reviewer Biss has already made.
A curious piece this one. As the first new Ravenloft novel in 9 years I was eagerly awaiting this release. However the unfortunate reality was that the Ravenloft core references were few and far between. Part of book is set in Kartakass and Harkon Lucas briefly get a mention, along with a number of Vistani references but that is about it. The Ravenloft setting has most notably changed by incorporating Victorian England as a place to which the mists of Ravenloft connect and draw their prey. This appears to be the same connection as shared by other TSR settings as opposed to that outlined in the Masque of the Red Death campaign setting. Even forgetting the tenuous Ravenloft connections, this book suffered from having too many villains, a convoluted time-line and an overly bizarre plot. I very much hope for an improvement on subsequent Ravenloft releases, hopefully returning to some of the core gothic horror concepts that originally shaped the series.
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