In the midst of that is a teen gravedigger and her siblings trying to make the most of their small family. The author gave us a town on the edge of an immense forest where old tales of the Otherking were still believed by the old and scoffed at by the young. I didn’t realize a book about zombies could be written like a fairy tale, but it was. This book was so wonderfully written – like you were in a dream. I would like to thank whoever posted about this book in Twitter, the cover caught my eye right at the time when I was looking for a new book to read. 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. Published September 24th 2019 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

The bone houses book