Sara A. Mueller's debut novel TheBoneOrchard is the story of a necromancer-turned-concubine that has (pardon the pun) great bones---but tries to do a little too much. nataliezutter reviews.
, Sara A. Mueller’s debut novel, has great bones: Charm, a necromancer-turned-concubine, is called to the dying Emperor’s bedside to solve his murder. If she can figure out which of his sons poisoned him, she’ll earn her freedom. It’s a Gothic fantasy whodunnit led by a charmingly layered woman who makes the unlikeliest of sleuths.
Mueller confidently establishes necromancy as some ephemeral power existing somewhere between magic and science, balancing the psychic gift that allows Charm to absorb and expel emotions with the glass and steel of the growth tanks, filled with precious empathy fluid. Necromancy has had a resurrection within SFF lately thanks to novels like Tamsyn Muir’s, but Borenguard stands on its own as a setting I would be eager to see more stories in.
It’s also a keen parallel representing how this infamously burbling madam with her outrageously-dyed hair is actually a prisoner: stuck forever in her nineteen-year-old body, yet possessed of the experience and cynicism of a woman in her fifties, empress of her limited domain. Just as the Lady can grow bone on trees and nurture it in vats, Charm cultivates interpersonal dynamics and political alliances among Orchard House’s regulars. Hers is a remarkable soft power that certainly exists in other similar fantasy archetypes, though perhaps not interrogated as thoroughly as it is here.
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