The Bone House

Audio Book on CD

By: Stephen Lawhead

Narrated by: Simon Bubb

Kit Livingstone met his great-grandfather Cosimo in a rainy alley in London where he discovered the truth about alternate realities.

Now he’s on the run—and on a quest—trying to understand the impossible mission he inherited from Cosimo: to restore a map that charts the hidden dimensions of the multiverse. Survival depends on staying one step ahead of the savage Burley Men.

The key is the Skin Map—but where it leads and what it means, Kit has no idea. The pieces have been scattered throughout this universe and beyond.

Mina, from her outpost in seventeenth-century Prague, is quickly gaining both the experience and the means to succeed in the quest. Yet so are those with evil intent who, from the shadows, are manipulating great minds of history for their own malign purposes.

Those who know how to use the ley lines have left their own world behind to travel across time and space—down avenues of Egyptian sphinxes, to an Etruscan tufa tomb, into a Bohemian coffee shop, and across a Stone Age landscape where universes collide—in this, the second quest to unlock the mystery of The Bone House.

The Bright Empires series—from acclaimed author Stephen R. Lawhead—is a unique blend of epic treasure hunt, ancient history, alternate realities, cutting-edge physics, philosophy, and mystery. The result is a page-turning, adventure like no other.

Great Read

A friend recommended this series to me but it took me months to decide to try it. I've just finished the second book in the series and have thoroughly enjoyed both. My hesitation was based on an unpleasant experience with another series by this same author (Pendragon) that after numerous attempts, I gave up trying to listen to. The problem with that series may have been entirely the fault of the narrator because the monotone voice kept literally putting me to sleep. This was not the case this time however, as I happily kept listening to the end and enjoyed both the narration and the story.

A great adventure.

The Bone House is a great adventure in a multidimensional universe. Kit and Cosimo are betrayed, by Lady Fayth, Kit finally finds Wilhelmina in Prague, Arthur Flinders Petrie has a child, and Kit travels to a land where he lives among a tribe of cavemen, and the Bone House is built. Well narrated by Simon Bubb, The Bone House by Stephen Lawhead is another masterpiece in the Bright Empires series.

Sweet

Very nice story
Great definition
Easy to listen to
Lawhead has a clean style and interesting concepts
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Story is just getting better!

Enjoying these books so much! Thank you Mr. Lawhead for having a spirit worth sharing.

Bright Empires series is really one long book

Like many others have said, the five books in the Bright Empires series is really one long book that was sliced into five more digestible parts. There really isn’t a discernible point where splitting the books makes sense other than that each book is one fifth of the whole. Lawhead is a good story teller and there are some characters that I really like. Mina is my favorite character by a long shot, with Kit being more bland but okay. There are a number of things I don’t like so much. First, I think that there is too much packed into the story. There are too many characters too keep track of, and I think that this series could have been half the length of less. Too many characters and too much unnecessary parts that bog things down. I often feel like I am overwhelmed by there just being too much. Second, Lawhead seems to pitch his writing to young adults. There is nothing wrong with that, but just be prepared for it. In the Bone House, the plot advances the various storylines started in the first book, but focusing on the search for the skin map, and Kit’s discovery of the Stone Age folk and the bone house. This series is okay, but probably best for Lawhead fans only.