❥ The Goat – I didn’t think I’d get the hype over the goat…and honestly I didn’t know what to expect from said goat… but damn it we love the stubborn, loyal goat. ❥ Ellis – Our mysterious, Hufflepuff map-maker who doesn’t let his chronic pain define or stop him from doing what he loves, while also trying to find out information about his past. She looked death in the eyes and didn’t cower, but said teach me while being unapologetically herself and never apologizing for who she is. Honestly, from Ryn’s first introduction, I already loved her. ❥ Ryn – Our Gryffindor gravedigging main character who is still grieving over her father going missing and just wants to protect her family while axing down bone houses. Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Publication Date: September 24th 2019 Together, Ellis and Ryn embark on a journey that will take them deep into the heart of the mountains, where they will have to face both the curse and the long-hidden truths about themselves. What is it that draws them near? And more importantly, how can they be stopped for good? When Ellis, an apprentice mapmaker with a mysterious past, arrives in town, the bone houses attack with new ferocity. The risen corpses are known as “bone houses,” and legend says that they’re the result of a decades-old curse. The problem with being a gravedigger in Colbren, though, is that the dead don’t always stay dead.

Since the death of their parents, Ryn and her siblings have been scraping together a meager existence as gravediggers in the remote village of Colbren, which sits at the foot of a harsh and deadly mountain range that was once home to the fae.

Seventeen-year-old Aderyn (“Ryn”) only cares about two things: her family, and her family’s graveyard.

The bone houses book review