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A review by redheadbeans
The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth by Sarah Monette
5.0
Maybe most of my ranking is for "Elegy for a Demon Lover", but well... It's just a very good short story in a collection that, by any other author, I might have dropped. It's not Monette's fault, so much as I tend to find horror rather boring. And prior to Elegy, there was a story ("The Inheritance of Barnabas Wilcox") with one of my particular horror squicks. But I pressed on because I love Booth, and Monette's writing is wonderful, as usual, and I'm glad I stuck around, because I've reread Elegy four times now and adore it. The following short story, "The Wall of Clouds", is also very fun with its whump, and "The Green Glass Paperweight" is lovely, as well.
Booth is similar to Monette's other protagonists in that I love him, and I want to wrap him in a warm blanket because he's had a rough go, and he has shades of Felix in his more timid moments in "Doctrine of Labyrinths". All in all, a good anthology. If you read nothing else, read "Elegy for a Demon Lover". It's far and away the best short story here, and the sort of sequel "The Wall of Clouds" is good, as well.
Booth is similar to Monette's other protagonists in that I love him, and I want to wrap him in a warm blanket because he's had a rough go, and he has shades of Felix in his more timid moments in "Doctrine of Labyrinths". All in all, a good anthology. If you read nothing else, read "Elegy for a Demon Lover". It's far and away the best short story here, and the sort of sequel "The Wall of Clouds" is good, as well.