The Bone Orchard

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I often got upset, but never with our MC. I was right there and invested the entire time. I was most impressed with how much epic fantasy intrigue, SF worldbuilding, and careful characterizations. It reminded me fondly of Gideon the Ninth, but more of a standard mystery tale.

As a madam, Charm works hard to conduct her salon business, having powerful clients from high places including the Emperor. Now she’s summoned to the Emperor’s deathbed as his loyal mistress. He needs her help to find which bastard son poisoned him in exchange her freedom. It also discusses so many sensitive issues realistically including sex workers, abuse, rape. If you like dark fantasy reads with well developed characters, breathtaking world building, mind bending mystery: this is the best fit for your needs! Salvatore, Brian (16 January 2023). "Reader Poll Results: Our Readers Love Strolling Through the Bone Orchard". Multiversity Comics . Retrieved January 18, 2023. The entire supporting cast was amazing as well, even the smallest side character was intriguing and well fleshed out. I learned something in this book that I did not realize. In Maine, game wardens are full law enforcement officers and have the same authority as a state trooper. Call for a cop and a game warden may show up. This may be true in all states and I just never understood.If she does this last thing, she will finally have what has been denied her since the fall of Inshil—her freedom. But she will also be betraying the ghosts past and present that live on within her heart. Original material for the series has been published as a set of limited series, graphic novels, and one-shot comics. A Legendary Weapon • Consume and Control • Power From The Past • A New Wayfinder • Somewhere to Call Home • Echoes of the Fallen • Master of Arms • Helping Hands • Instinct, Discipline, Focus • Weapon and Wielder • Vile Vials • Codex Halls - Sphere 2 • Codex Halls - Sphere 3 • Undercroft - Sphere 1 • Undercroft - Sphere 2 • Undercroft - Sphere 3 • Repository of Knowledge - Sphere 1 • Repository of Knowledge - Sphere 2 • Repository of Knowledge - Sphere 3 • Pit - Sphere 1 • Pit - Sphere 2 • Pit - Sphere 3 • Bloodworks - Sphere 1 • Bloodworks - Sphere 2 • Bloodworks - Sphere 3 • Bal Duum - Sphere 1 • Bal Duum - Sphere 2 • Bal Duum - Sphere 3 • Shrouded Woods - Sphere 1 • Shrouded Woods - Sphere 2 • Shrouded Woods - Sphere 3 • Bone Orchard - Sphere 1 • Bone Orchard - Sphere 2 • Bone Orchard - Sphere 3 • Hollow Heart - Sphere 1 • Hollow Heart - Sphere 2 • Hollow Heart - Sphere 3 • Broodmother S'ilreth - Sphere 1 • Broodmother S'ilreth - Sphere 2 • Broodmother S'ilreth - Sphere 3 • Trial of Lingering Light - Sphere 1 • Trial of Lingering Light - Sphere 2 • Trial of Lingering Light - Sphere 3 • Archon Commander - Sphere 1 • Archon Commander - Sphere 2 • Archon Commander - Sphere 3 • Argent Hand - Sphere 1 • Argent Hand - Sphere 2 • Argent Hand - Sphere 3 • Ryv'n - Sphere 1 • Ryv'n - Sphere 2 • Ryv'n - Sphere 3 • First - Sphere 1 • First - Sphere 2 • First - Sphere 3 • Bloodspawn - Sphere 1 • Bloodspawn - Sphere 2 • Bloodspawn - Sphere 3 • Dread Legion - Sphere 1 • Dread Legion - Sphere 2 • Dread Legion - Sphere 3 • Grand Deceiver Maras - Sphere 1 • Grand Deceiver Maras - Sphere 2 • Grand Deceiver Maras - Sphere 3 • Storm Twins - Sphere 1 • Storm Twins - Sphere 2 • Storm Twins - Sphere 3 • Kolaar the Beastmaster - Sphere 1 • Kolaar the Beastmaster - Sphere 2 • Kolaar the Beastmaster - Sphere 3 • Bloodbore - Sphere 1 • Bloodbore - Sphere 2 • Bloodbore - Sphere 3 • Void - Sphere 1 • Void - Sphere 2 • Void - Sphere 3 • Reaver King - Sphere 1 • Reaver King - Sphere 2 • Reaver King - Sphere 3 • Wormwood - Sphere 1 • Wormwood - Sphere 2 • Wormwood - Sphere 3

Charm is a witch, and she is alone. The last of a line of conquered necromantic workers, now confined within the yard of regrown bone trees at Orchard House, and the secrets of their marrow. TW/CW: violence, murder, gore, rape, abuse, pedophilia, trauma, torture, prostitution, body modifications, sexism, My biggest frustration with this novel, however, was the way it felt...underbaked. Like a cake that's not quite done out of the oven, there are choices made in pacing and logic that didn't just sit right with me. Why does Major Nathair, arguably the most compelling character outside of the main cast, make a brief appearance early on and then vanish for nearly the entire novel? Why do Charm's various aspects not share the same memories? Where do psychics come from, and what is the extent of their powers?. Concepts are dropped like bombs and then left to drift aimlessly, with the various plot points eventually coalescing into an ending that feels rushed and unsatisfying. I am all for stories that drop me into the deep end and leave me to feel my way out of the dark, but this novel does a poor job of lighting my way. The mystery surrounding the central concept of Charm and her boneghosts is a prime example: likely meant to be coy and intriguing, it ends up feelings frustrating far more than it does rewarding. The Bone Orchard Mythos is a horror universe which features horror comics in a variety of formats. Over a series of self-contained stories, it will build up a horror mythology in a similar fashion to H.P Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythology. My brother gave me three Doiron books for Christmas and it looks like this(#5) will be the first one for me. As soon as I finish the doorstop I'm reading now. Tonight?Charm must choose. Her dead Emperor’s will or the whispers of her own ghosts. Justice for the empire or her own revenge.

That's what I like. Now for what I don't like. This is a short list. As a matter of fact, it only has one item on it--the sex scenes. They, or in this book's case it as there was only one, add nothing to the story or the character development. To be brutally honest, it came off as clumsy and more than a little embarrassing. Embarrassing as in it was so bad I had to wince my way through it. Mr. Doiron, next time, just say no, ok? :) Charm is a bone witch, a prisoner, and a whore. Alongside the boneghosts that she grew in her laboratory, she runs a brothel at Orchard House. When her keeper the old emperor lies dying, poisoned, he charges her with safeguarding the empire and finding out which of his sons was his killer. Love, Amber. "COMIC REVIEW: "THE BONE ORCHARD: THE PASSAGEWAY" ". Amber Unmasked . Retrieved January 18, 2023. His character has a sense of smell. This may seem like a silly thing to point out, but it isn't--at least to me. I am getting so very, very tired of books that are written as though they were movies. Sight and sound only. No smell. Mike Bowditch has a nose and knows how to use it! :)I would love to see The Bone Orchard among prestige TV’s epic fantasy adaptations—all these rich costumes! Charm with her colorful hair! Intrigue and court politics! The boneghosts and Firedrinkers and streets and gates of Borenguard! Until that happens, though, I suggest you prepare to sink into this one—let it take its time, and take your time with it. It’s an orchard worth strolling through, admiring every branching tree and tempting fruit. Tweedale, Mark (13 July 2022). "The Bone Orchard Mythos: The Passageway". Multiversity Comics . Retrieved January 18, 2023.

It was called "the bone orchard" because there was a family cemetery hidden amongst the roots of the trees. The mossy gravestones were so weathered, you could no longer read the names of the dead.' For Halloween 2022, Lemire announced Starseed in his newsletter. [36] The story is scheduled for release in 2024. [69] Reception [ edit ] Critical reception [ edit ] The Passageway [ edit ] Justice got herself up to sitting, and after a moment more got to her feet. The Lady smiled. Justice was so strong. The Lady was always glad she’d made this ghost a body, even if the bones had been too small for an adult, and, because the bones grew separately on a tree instead of naturally in a body, one femur was slightly longer than the other. “How are you?” the Lady asked. A boneghost with skin like milk glass and eyes the color of blood slipped into the solarium. Assembled from the bones in the orchard, their soft parts grown in a vat, boneghosts did not age. This one had looked eighteen since she’d risen from the growth vat in the greenhouse. If not for her coloring, she would have been the perfect image of Charm herself. Because the boneghosts had skulls identical to Charm’s, they all more or less shared her face.I found James Sr. to be an imposing presence. He was a lobbyist now but had served in two Republican administrations in mysterious positions that seemed to come with basement offices in the Pentagon. He had the bushiest red eyebrows I had ever seen and a foxlike grin that suggested he could read my thoughts at will. Charm represents the last line of conquered necromantic workers, confined within the yard of regrown bone trees at Orchard House. But are those trees children of Charm or are they different parts of her split personality?As you may see each personalities are like different personalities grown as bone trees instead of sharing the same body, each of them represents their own life purpose including Shame, Pride, Pain, Justice, Desire. The characters and relationships are particularly nuanced and morally ambiguous in The Bone Orchard - between Charm and the emperor and their decades-long...association, between Charm and her own boneghosts whom she pimps out to the volatile / pedophiliac / otherwise gross princes on the logic that a) she can't turn down a prince; and b) better they hurt a boneghost, who can be fixed by spending some time in a tank of empathy fluid, than an actual human, between Charm and her own, largely repressed, traumatic past.