Unless Anitaverse has moved things around, that means the events of this book events happen about three months after the main events of the previous Anita Blake novel, The Lunatic Cafe. The book also uses codewords to record certain events that happen in the course of the book.Bloody Bones begins on Saint Patrick's Day, which is traditionally held on 17 March.

The game uses a 'Time' score to record the passing of time, but is not used after a certain point in the book. The player character encounters Cinnabar in both his undead and fully revived forms, and has a final showdown with Cinnabar's Voodoo god, Quezkari. The player must find the pirates' secret hideout, beginning in the Port of Crabs. It transpires that Cinnabar was killed but has been revived by voodoo.

The player is seeking revenge on the pirate-lord Cinnabar for the murder of their family. The Fighting Fantasy gamebook is set in the usual fantasy world of Titan, on the continent of The Old World. The author has stated that this was the length he always intended it to be. Bloodbones was finally published in 2006, now a full 400 references long. In 2002 Wizard Books began reprinting many of the original Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, and at one point the official website featured a poll calling for fan requests with regard to upcoming reprints which included Bloodbones' as one of the possible answers. It would have been illustrated by Mike Posen. Green stated that he was disappointed to hear of the series' cancellation as Bloodbones was his personal favourite of the gamebooks he had written and had plot outlines for several more. The book concerned the player's quest for vengeance against the undead pirate Cinnabar, who was nicknamed Bloodbones. It was to be 300 paragraphs long, and was to be the first in a revamped Fighting Fantasy series in an attempt to re-connect with the young audience after later entries had become more complicated. Light was finally shed on the mystery in 2001 when Jonathan Green wrote a letter to a Fighting Fantasy fan containing details of the book. Rumours correctly suggested Jonathan Green was the author of the book and there were also a wide variety of supposed publication dates ranging from 1995 to more recent years. It would have been 60th in the series in the original Puffin series had it been published at the time, and is 26th in the modern Wizard series.įor a long time Bloodbones was considered to be the 'lost' Fighting Fantasy book however, little was known regarding Bloodbones prior to 2001. The book was notorious for being the 'lost' Fighting Fantasy gamebook, written during the books' original run but not published until 2006. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series.

Bloodbones is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Jonathan Green and illustrated by Tony Hough.

Bloody bones novel