Introduction

"I was absolutely swept away by the world of The Bone Charmer." – Kendare Blake, #1 NYT Bestselling author of Three Dark Crowns

On the day of Saskia’s kenning--a special bone reading that determines the apprenticeships of all seventeen-year-olds--her worst fear comes true. She receives an assignment to train as a Bone Charmer, a seer, like her mother.

Saskia knows her mother saw multiple paths for her, yet chose the one she knew Saskia wouldn’t want. Their argument leads to a fracture in one of the bones, with the devastating result of splitting Saskia’s future.

Now she will live her two potential paths simultaneously: one where she’s forced to confront her magic, and one where she tries to run from it. But when both paths become entangled in the plot of a rogue Charmer, Saskia learns that no future is safe, and some choices have unimaginable consequences. Only one future can survive. And Saskia’s life is in danger in both.

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Excerpt

CHAPTER 1
Saskia
Tomorrow my future will be decided by my dead gran's finger bones. It's how my whole life has been determined — with bones and blood and snapping flames. When I was five days old, my mother dangled me over a stone basin that was heavy with the shoulder blades of an ox and pierced my heel with a sewing needle. I'm not sure how many drops of blood splashed into the basin. One? Two? Ten? It doesn't matter. It was enough blood to infuse the bones with my essence. Enough blood to tell my mother anything she wanted to know about the next few years of my life. ... view entire excerpt...

Discussion Questions

1. In The Bone Charmer, characters receive special bone readings to give their lives direction. If you had the opportunity to see into your own future, would you? Why or why not?
2. The Bone Charmer features a complex mother/daughter relationship. In what ways do you think parents shape their children’s futures? Do you think those relationships change over time?
3. The book has strong themes of fate vs. free will. What role do these two ideas play in your own life? Do you think anything is meant to be or do you believe everything happen as a result of your own choices? How would you approach decisions differently if you discovered the opposite was true?

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