![]() ![]() I also liked the small scope – the story is entirely centered on one little village and saving that, rather than the whole world.īut my favourite part was the romance. I can’t say I like zombies, but as soon as magic is involved, I don’t mind much at all. ![]() Being unfamiliar with Welsh mythology, I’m unable to say much more on the topic, but I did like the take on the undead. The plot is fairly predictable and at no point I was in any doubt where it’ll go next, but sometimes that’s what you need: comfort (weird to say of a book that deals with death and pain so much, perhaps, and yet). On one of her forays into the forest, she stumbles upon Ellis, a mapmaker dressed in fancy clothes who suffers from chronic pain in his shoulder. Ever since her father’s disappearance, she’s been the village gravedigger, taking care of the dead and protecting the village and her siblings from the undead (the titular bone houses) coming from the nearby forest with her axe. ![]() I nearly read it all in one day and it was exactly what I wanted and needed it to be. I don’t know what finally persuaded me to give it a go, but I’m so glad I did. I had this book in my sights ever since it came out, part because of the disability rep, part because of the romance subplot. Neither occupation is particularly romantic, but I suspect the world would be a sorrier place without us.” A moment, and then he added: “Just as there is in gravedigging. ![]() “You speak of mapmaking as if there’s nobility in it.” ![]()
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