![]() ![]() ![]() Jude-broken, rebuilt, fueled by anger and a sense of powerlessness-has never recovered from watching her adoptive Faerie father murder her parents. Apart from a dark-skinned villager depicted as an outsider, all characters are presumed white.Ī stand-alone dark fantasy that readers will want to sink their teeth into despite its flaws.īlack is back with another dark tale of Faerie, this one set in Faerie and launching a new trilogy. The journey is slow to get started, the numerous attacks and fight scenes with bone houses grow tedious, and the twists are predictable, but nonetheless this Welsh-inspired story is haunting and compelling. Lloyd-Jones ( The Hearts We Sold, 2017, etc.) gruesomely describes the undead, called bone houses, with their rotting flesh and unseeing eye sockets-yet the mood never gets too dark thanks to a tenacious and strangely adorable undead goat along with some mild romantic tension. ![]() Through a forbidden forest teeming with monsters, together they look for a mythical cauldron that will end the curse of the risen dead. Raised in Caer Aberhen after being found in the woods by a prince, Ellis now searches for any trace of his parents, though chronic shoulder pain from a mysterious injury slows him down. Ever since the dead have started coming back to life, gravedigger Ryn has been out of work.ĭesperate to protect her younger siblings and clear her family’s debts to a greedy landlord, Ryn connects with Ellis, a lost mapmaker who will pay her to guide him into the mountains. ![]()
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