The Bone Triangle

Reader is nearly intolerable

Why they changed the reader of this from the first book is a mystery far beyond the mysteries in the series. The reader has an weak, whiney, cracking, almost effeminate voice that lacks the strength and resolve necessary to carry the strong characters established in the first book. And there's no creative variation in the voices given to the characters, creating confusion many times regarding who's talking. I'm halfway through this book but I may not finish, the narration is really that bad.

12 of 15 people found this review helpful

Let the darkness pull you in again.

For me,this second book really went a little darker than the first. We are finally getting some incite into the "objects" and other character details we all wondered about.


My only complaint......DON'T CHANGE NARRATORS! Dont get me wrong,the new narrator did a fine job. But the one voice i just got sick of hearing was McKesson(sp?). He now sounds like he is always talking with a mouth full of peanut butter.


New narrator or not,this book was awesome and i cant wait for the next.

4 of 5 people found this review helpful

Sequel Letdown Syndrome

I really enjoyed the first Technomancer book, and got the Bone Triangle right after finishing. What a letdown! First of all, The new narrator gave Larson’s characters none of the grit I enjoyed in the first book, but made everybody sound like whiny children. Not that a sterling narration would have helped in any case. The story was terribly unpolished. Too much alliteration, passive voice and lame word choice bogged everything down. It’s as if the author was forced to produce a second book because the first novel had “Book One” as part of the title, and then gave up after the first draft. Very disappointed.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Couldn't finish it ...

I love other B V Larson series, but this one, I'll have to pass. I heard the first book in the series and thought, well, I'll give the second one a try, but I don't care for it. The world and the characters seem one-dimensional, even the bad guys aren't exciting or entertaining. At last I gave up on it because I didn't really care what happened to anyone in the book, and I didn't care much for the narrator.

I anxiously await the release of Larson's space novels, and I dearly love the narrator Mark Boyett, so I'm not giving up on B V Larson. Just on this particular series.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Not Actually Bad

Second in the series. I probably should have read the first one, Technomancer, but I really didn't have much trouble picking up the plot. I was sent this as an Advanced Reading Copy, but because I kept dozing off, I ended up downloading the Audible version which kept my attention better. I did, however, find that the Audible version went a little better when I set the reading speed at 1.25x on my iPhone app.

Anyway, plot-wise, this is a standard sort of urban fantasy story with our hero, supernatural crime investigator Quentin Draith finding himself in a situation where he has to make some money or he is going to lose his home, a small mansion that was cheap to purchase but expensive to keep.

In order to make some money he accepts a job to find a missing 27 year old woman named Jacqueline Swanson. Meanwhile he notices that there seems to be something gobbling up street people and depositing their bones back on the street. He is also hired by a local casino owner/magic wielder, to find the owner's pet, an intelligent lava slug, who finds Las Vegas to be too cool for comfort. Meanwhile Draith is also being hunted by another magic wielder who sends assassins of various shapes and sizes after him. He is also searching for his past since he has lost his memories.

Yeah, there's a bit too much going on. And Jacqueline is more like a vapid 17 year old than a 27 year old woman. Her relationship with Quentin seems more perfunctory than sizzling. Most of the main characters have a set of powers that they are given by the possession of certain artifacts-- it's really a lot like a video game.

Just to give you an idea of what I think are excellent books in this genre-- Ben Aaronovich's Rivers of London (PC Peter Grant) and Simon R. Green's The Man with the Golden Torc (Secret Histories, Book 1) are two first books in series that I look forward to the next volume in. I think Aaronovitch is up to 4 and the Secret Histories is at about 6. Larson's book was tolerable, but I won't be heartbroken if I don't read the next one.

The narrator was more than competent but as I said it seemed to drag a little bit until I upped the speed just a quarter. After all this is a fast paced story and the writing isn't particularly complex so it was easy to follow.

5 of 7 people found this review helpful

Really phoned this one in

The story was very weak, even though I enjoyed the first book. The performance of the reader only made it worse. I really like BV Larson's books, but feel like he didn't really have this one in him

Just more of the same

If you liked the first book, you may also like this one. For me, I discovered that the uniqueness of the first book has worn thin, and it failed to make up for the repetitive story line and lack of substance of the book.

Great Audio book

The writer really writes great books I honestly can't get enough of his books Thank you BV

Good book, strange narration

I liked the story a lot, but the narration just felt kind of hollow and lifeless.

Another sight at supernatural Vegas

Would you consider the audio edition of The Bone Triangle to be better than the print version?

The narration really adds to the story.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Quentin Draith, he's the quintessential main character the gets beat up a lot.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Not exactly moved, but when he gets his memory back.

Any additional comments?

I really like the concept of magical items that grant you a random power, reminds me of some other book, manga or game but I can't quite remember which. Characters' sides keep changing and some seem a little flat. Overall, a good new series forming up.