Bone Fire

 

Bone Fire is Mark Spragg’s third novel, but the first of his four novels reviewed in this blog. I came to this book after regarding an interview with Craig Johnson, author of the Longmire series which has been very favorably  reviewed in its entirety by East Coast Don. The interview in the NY Times Book Review section indicated that Johnson was a fan of Spragg. I found Bone Fire on Amazon.

 

I’m actually surprised that I finished the book. One the one hand, it was a beautiful character study and description of Western life. On the other hand, it was very slow moving and not too interesting. There are stories of marriage and divorce, an inability of an ailing grandfather to understand his relationships, the work of a gifted grandaughter’s sculpture work, and her stepfather’s discovery of a body in an exploded meth lab. However, this was basically a boring account of subplots that seemed contrived. I cannot give this book a favorable recommendation.bone