The Bone Houses

For more of my reviews, check out my blog.You all know how much I loved [b:The Drowned Woods 57314572 The Drowned Woods Emily Lloyd-Jones https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1633709742l/57314572.SX50.jpg 89695727] when I read it earlier this year. Pretty much immediately went and bought Emily Lloyd-Jones's previous novel, The Bone Houses, as soon as I was done. I kept putting off reading it, though, because it seemed like the perfect book to read for Halloween. I was right.The Bone Houses is about medieval zombies, pretty much. A bone house is a dead person that is still up and walking around. They can't talk, or eat, or do anything like an alive person other than...wander around and try to hurt people. (Spoiler – not all the bone houses want to hurt you!) Ryn – our main character – lives in a tiny village seemingly in the middle of no where, surrounded by a magical forest. The bone houses generally stick to the forest, until one day...they don't. Surprise!The rest of the book is trying to figure out what magic causes the bone houses, why they're suddenly coming out of the forest, and attacking the village. Ryn and her companion, Ellis, venture out on a quest to find some answers. Ryn is a no-nonsense young woman, and I loved her ability to do just whatever she needed to so things got done. Ellis is a little wishy-washy at first, but his backstory is really profoundly well done. And I can't NOT mention bone goat. What an amazing animal companion. Loyal even unto death. The Bone Houses is a book about death, mourning, and how love does not fade when someone passes. This book made me cry more than once, but in a very healing way. It also made me hug my son so, so tight. I loved this book.