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Bone Music (Burning GIrl – 1) by Christopher Rice

There’s more than one way to stoke the flames of revenge…

Charlotte Rowe spent the first seven years of her life in the hands of the only parents she knew—a pair of serial killers who murdered her mother and tried to shape Charlotte in their own twisted image. If only the nightmare had ended when she was rescued. Instead, her real father exploited her tabloid-ready story for fame and profit—until Charlotte finally broke free from her ghoulish past and fled. Just when she thinks she has buried her personal hell forever, Charlotte is swept into a frightening new ordeal. Secretly dosed with an experimental drug, she’s endowed with a shocking new power—but pursued by a treacherous corporation desperate to control her.

Except from now on, if anybody is going to control Charlotte, it’s going to be Charlotte herself. She’s determined to use the extraordinary ability she now possesses to fight the kind of evil that shattered her life—by drawing a serial killer out from the shadows to face the righteous fury of a victim turned avenger.

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Author’s Bio

By the age of 30, Christopher Rice had published four New York Times bestselling thrillers, received a Lambda Literary Award and been declared one of People Magazine’s Sexiest Men Alive. His two novels of dark supernatural suspense, THE HEAVENS RISE and THE VINES, were both finalists for the Bram Stoker Award. He recently entered the erotic romance genre with three works in all new series called The Desire Exchange. They include THE FLAME, THE SURRENDER GATE and KISS THE FLAME.. His debut novel, A DENSITY OF SOULS, was published when the author was just 22 years old. A controversial and overnight bestseller, it was greeted with a landslide of media attention, much of it devoted to the fact that Christopher is the son of famed vampire chronicler, Anne Rice. Together with his best friend, New York Times bestselling novelist Eric Shaw Quinn, Christopher launched his own Internet radio show. THE DINNER PARTY SHOW WITH CHRISTOPHER RICE & ERIC SHAW QUINN Every episode is available for free download from the site’s show archive or on iTunes. Subscribe to The Dinner Party Show’s You Tube channel to get all of their newest content in 2016.

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My Review

4 stars

When Charlotte Rowe was younger, her name was Trina Pierce. Serial killers Abigail and Daniel Banning killed her mother and kidnapped her. Both raised Charlotte to be a killer along with them. When she was seven, the FBI stopped the Banning’s and rescued Charlotte. She was returned to her father that marketed her and made profit from her abduction. He was more concerned with the profits than actually taking care of his kid.

Now, ten years after she got away from her father, Charlotte is trying to get her life on track. She is eaten up with guilt over her childhood. She hides in her house and is working on being good. But then she is the unwilling test subject for a drug that gives her abilities. And now she is fed up with people telling her what to do. She is going to use these abilities to take back her life.

This is an interesting story. It is dark and brutal, what book about serial killers is not brutal. But there is so much more considering the psychology of these killers. My heart breaks for Charlotte and everything she goes through but I was so happy to see that she has some normalcy after her seven years of hell. And her father, what a jerk. Why couldn’t he have been one of the Banning’s victims? But when she decides to start using her abilities, I cheered. She could have followed in the Banning’s footsteps, in a sense she did, but she went another route.

I really liked this book. There is the darkness from the serial killers, the scifi from the experimental drugs, and the revenge on those that deserve it. I can see how some people wouldn’t like the story so I do warn you, it’s really good but it might not be everyone’s cup of tea.

I received a complimentary copy of this book. I voluntarily chose to read and post an honest review.

I would like to thank Little Bird Publicity for the opportunity to share this book.