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A review by mrsbrownlovestoread
The Bone Jar by S.W. Kane
4.0
The Bone Jar - Review (No Spoiler version)
An abandoned asylum, mysterious former patients and murder.
As I carefully chose my Amazon first reads this month this book had me desperate to start reading it (I even abandoned my current read for it!) not being able to resist the description on the back of the book. “Unspeakable psychological experimentation, and a dark force that haunts the ruins, trying to pull back in all those who attempt to escape,” had me thinking this would be a freaky, hide under the blanket book. However, I was mildly disappointed as it turned out to be a run of the mill “who done it” crime story. This is where my disappointment ends, I was completely hooked from the first page, no messing around straight in with a body being discovered.
Then follows the gathering of information by the Police Officer in this case Detective Lew Kirby, I was slightly frustrated at his lack of questioning, I thought he could have and should have asked more questions, or general police work, I'm fairly sure in this day and age a simple google search of the deceased would have been completed.
By about 50% through the book the facts start to come together and Kirby starts to slowly connect the dots. By 80% the book starts to climb to the finale and at this point (even though it was 11pm) I could not put it down. I was going to finish this book no matter what the time!
I think this had the potential to be a really creepy story, as I read the synopsis I was thinking ghosts, hauntings and some seriously questionable experimentation.
Overall this is a good mix of drama and suspense. A great page turner for sure, however, It would have gotten 5 stars had the ending not left me feeling a bit flat. It felt like the author had suddenly remembered that there was an element of the story left unfinished so she quickly added a few pages at the end.
An abandoned asylum, mysterious former patients and murder.
As I carefully chose my Amazon first reads this month this book had me desperate to start reading it (I even abandoned my current read for it!) not being able to resist the description on the back of the book. “Unspeakable psychological experimentation, and a dark force that haunts the ruins, trying to pull back in all those who attempt to escape,” had me thinking this would be a freaky, hide under the blanket book. However, I was mildly disappointed as it turned out to be a run of the mill “who done it” crime story. This is where my disappointment ends, I was completely hooked from the first page, no messing around straight in with a body being discovered.
Then follows the gathering of information by the Police Officer in this case Detective Lew Kirby, I was slightly frustrated at his lack of questioning, I thought he could have and should have asked more questions, or general police work, I'm fairly sure in this day and age a simple google search of the deceased would have been completed.
By about 50% through the book the facts start to come together and Kirby starts to slowly connect the dots. By 80% the book starts to climb to the finale and at this point (even though it was 11pm) I could not put it down. I was going to finish this book no matter what the time!
I think this had the potential to be a really creepy story, as I read the synopsis I was thinking ghosts, hauntings and some seriously questionable experimentation.
Overall this is a good mix of drama and suspense. A great page turner for sure, however, It would have gotten 5 stars had the ending not left me feeling a bit flat. It felt like the author had suddenly remembered that there was an element of the story left unfinished so she quickly added a few pages at the end.