The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones

Seventeen-year-old Aderyn (“Ryn”) only cares about two things: her family, and her family’s graveyard. And right now, both are in dire straits. 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. The problem with being a gravedigger in Colbren, though, is that the dead don’t always stay dead. The risen corpses are known as “bone houses,” and legend says that they’re the result of a decades-old curse. When Ellis, an… Read more.
Trigger & Content Warnings
- Ableism & ableist language
- Classism
- Parental abandonment mentioned
- Nightmares
- Alcohol consumption
- Blood & gore depiction
- Dead bodies & body parts (theme)
- Physical injury
- Emesis
- Chronic pain
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death of a mother & father
- Death of an uncle
- Murder
- Axe violence
- Strangulation
- Near-drowning incident
- Animal death & dead bodies
- Death of a pet goat
- Hunting mentioned
- War themes recounted
- Poverty & eviction