![]() ![]() After all, the people are afraid of the curse of the bone houses, or walking dead, that plagues the village afraid that their dead will become bone houses if they too are buried. Living with her two younger siblings and uncle, who, incidentally, has also not been seen for several days, Ryn is struggling to pay the bills and keep her family fed because the village she lives in is quickly running out of people to bury and the villagers are now deciding to cremate their dead instead of burying them. The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones is a YA fantasy and horror novel about a young girl, Ryn-short for Aderyn-,who has inherited her family’s gravedigging business after her mother dies and her father goes missing. There were, however, some positives and I will talk about those first before going into specifics on negatives. Unfortunately, I did not like it as much as I thought I would. By then, it had already been out for a couple of months and its star was on the rise within the book community. I first found out about this book when it was featured in a young adult subscription book box. ![]() Click here for a brief description or synopsis. ![]() This book was released on September 24 th, 2019 and it has become very popular among young adult readers (as well as avid adult fantasy readers) in the months since. Today I’m going to review The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. ![]()
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