I feel like this was a perfect standalone.

Greatest of All Time doesn’t even begin to describe what a perfect character the goat was in this story. This is a perfect book for your October, pre-Halloween TBR. It was creepy – like, for sure, creepy – but I don’t feel like I won’t sleep from reading this. There were skeleton / zombies, monsters, grave-digging, and it wasn’t scary. I really liked that this is a one book series. I had heard good things, but wasn’t sure how spooky it would be. I was nervous that this book would be too much for me. Furthermore, I read for my enjoyment, so I prefer my stories to be dramatic, but happy, in general. I don’t like to be scared and I’m easily frightened. I’ve probably mentioned this before, but, I’m not a fan of Halloween or scary books. Together, Ellis and Ryn embark on a journey that will take them into the heart of the mountains, where they will have to face both the curse and the deeply-buried truths about themselves.

What is it that draws them near? And more importantly, how can they be stopped for good? When Ellis, an apprentice mapmaker with a mysterious past, arrives in town, the bone houses attack with new ferocity. The risen corpses are known as “bone houses,” and legend says that they’re the result of a decades-old curse. The problem with being a gravedigger in Colbren, though, is that the dead don’t always stay dead. Since the death of their parents, Ryn and her siblings have been scraping together a meager existence as gravediggers in the remote village of Colbren, which sits at the foot of a harsh and deadly mountain range that was once home to the fae. Seventeen-year-old Aderyn (“Ryn”) only cares about two things: her family and her family’s graveyard.

The bone houses book review