This lightning-fast book doesn’t rest for a minute. Meanwhile, a very elderly woman is making her way down the Road of Bones, praying that the ghosts of the people who died making the road will rest in peace. All they know is that something woke up in the forest and that it won’t rest until they’re all dead. Teig and Prentiss-plus the silent child and a stranded woman they picked up-are chased for miles through snow and deadly cold. Frankly, I didn’t think the road conditions could support high-speed chases. I wasn’t expecting a chase story when I picked up this book. Only a few hours after meeting their guide, things get even worse when they come across a village deserted except for one child who refuses to speak. Teig falls asleep at the wheel and almost kills both of them before they even meet their guide. But things are not going well right from the first page. Prentiss is along because Teig is his best friend. Teig has experience working on ghosthunter-type shows and hopes to find something similarly spooky in the taiga. Teig and Prentiss have arrived in Siberia to film some kind of documentary in the wilderness. So when I saw Christopher Golden’s Road of Bones listed on NetGalley, I snapped at the chance to read it.įittingly enough, Road of Bones is about a hellish road trip. If any place in the world is haunted, it’s probably the Road of Bones. According to Wikipedia, an estimated 250,000 to possibly one million people died during the Roads construction. It was constructed by gulag prisoners over the course of decades. The history of the Road is just as harrowing. Most of this 1,262 mile road is gravel and was one of the most challenging parts of the journey because of the climate, the road conditions, and the sheer isolation.
Their route took them over the Road of Bones. I first learned about the Road of Bones by watching The Long Way Round, in which Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman rode motorcycles from London to New York.
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