Bone Music

The Burning Girl, Book 1

By: Christopher Rice

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

An Amazon Charts bestseller.

There’s more than one way to stoke the flames of revenge...

Charlotte Rowe spent the first seven years of her life in the hands of the only parents she knew—a pair of serial killers who murdered her mother and tried to shape Charlotte in their own twisted image. If only the nightmare had ended when she was rescued. Instead, her real father exploited her tabloid-ready story for fame and profit—until Charlotte finally broke free from her ghoulish past and fled. Just when she thinks she has buried her personal hell forever, Charlotte is swept into a frightening new ordeal. Secretly dosed with an experimental drug, she’s endowed with a shocking new power—but pursued by a treacherous corporation desperate to control her.

Except from now on, if anybody is going to control Charlotte, it’s going to be Charlotte herself. She’s determined to use the extraordinary ability she now possesses to fight the kind of evil that shattered her life—by drawing a serial killer out from the shadows to face the righteous fury of a victim turned avenger.

©2018 by Christopher Rice. (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Unique plot

This book was surprisingly unique and clever. Really original thinking. I plan to read the next two in the series, but not until I recover a little!

Terrible pairing of a narrator with a book

Bone Music was bomb #2 of my three-month Kindle Unlimited extravaganza. It was cheesy and boring, there was no depth to the story, and the writing was bland. Surprisingly the grammar was decent, which is so rare in these days of indie publications, so props for that, but good grammar doesn't make a book interesting, just palatable.

I'm usually all about sci-fi thrillers, especially books about badass women, but this one never connected with me. It may be because I was listening to the audio version and ugh, what an unlikable narrator! Her voice, accents and pronunciations drove me batty, to the point where I hated the story when actually I was just hating her voice. Narration can make or break a novel, and that's what happened here. It didn't just break, it shattered into a million frustrating pieces.

In TV shows and films, casting agents look for chemistry, and I believe in audio books there should be chemistry too. Reading should be just like acting. Every author should strive to find the kind of chemistry John Scalzi and Wil Wheaton have as author and narrator. I often feel, as I did listening to Bone Music, that any old narrator was plucked out of the pool, chemistry be damned. Or did Christopher Rice lose a bet? Owe a family friend a favor? In this case, the narrator is so haughty sounding, I can't imagine she'd have chemistry with *any* book. She and her over-enunciations certainly had anti-chemistry with this one.

It's not her fault, but I am definitely putting Lauren Ezzo on my 'never listen' shelf, and that includes actually finishing Bone Music. I can't. I just can't.

Riveting & Unexpected

His writing is always thorough and clear. The story is suspenseful, touching, funny at times, and the characters feel real.

a great book with future possibilities

, I enjoyed this book very much. At times the storyline had some hiccups but by the end everything was resolved. If this book was opened up two more follow-ups I would read them too

interesting story even better character developmen

unique and interesting story. the precision and unfolding of the main character was very very good