The village's suspicion is heightened when Ellis, an apprentice mapmaker boy who is Ryn's age, appears in town. The business was inherited after the deaths of their parents, and has been suffering as a result of reanimated corpses, known as "bone houses", coming to life and antagonizing people. The book received mixed reviews from critics, and was also praised for its disability representation, owing to the character Ellis having chronic pain in the story.Īderyn (nicknamed "Ryn") is a seventeen-year-old gravedigger who operates the family business with her siblings in the rural village of Colbren. The Bone Houses is a 2019 young adult horror fantasy novel by Emily Lloyd-Jones, following Ryn, a female gravedigger, and Ellis, an apprentice mapmaker, as they try to stop "bone houses" (reanimated corpses) from roaming their world and affecting Ryn's family business.
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