Bonesmith
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“A fascinating world, absolutely delightful characters, and enemies-to-loves romance—this book is one readers will devour before begging for more.” —Tricia Levenseller, New York Times bestselling author of Blade of Secrets
Gideon the Ninth meets the Game of Thrones White Walkers in this dark, “swiftly paced” (Publishers Weekly) young adult fantasy about a disgraced ghost-fighting warrior who must journey into a haunted wasteland to rescue a kidnapped prince.
Ready your blade. Defeat the undead.
In the Dominions, the dead linger, violent and unpredictable, unless a bonesmith severs the ghost from its earthly remains. For bonesmith Wren, becoming a valkyr—a ghost-fighting warrior—is a chance to solidify her place in the noble House of Bone and impress her frequently absent father. But when sabotage causes Wren to fail her qualifying trial, she is banished to the Border Wall, the last line of defense against a wasteland called the Breach where the vicious dead roam unchecked.
Determined to reclaim her family’s respect, Wren gets her chance when a House of Gold prince is kidnapped and taken beyond the Wall. To prove she has what it takes to be a valkyr, Wren vows to cross the Breach and rescue him. But to do so, she’s forced into an uneasy alliance with one of the kidnappers—a fierce ironsmith called Julian from the exiled House of Iron, the very people who caused the Breach in the first place…and the House of Bone’s sworn enemy.
As they travel, Wren and Julian spend as much time fighting each other as they do the undead, but when they discover there’s more behind the kidnapping than either of them knew, they’ll need to work together to combat the real danger: a dark alliance that is brewing between the living and the undead.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Teens grapple with familial expectations in this rollicking duology opener from Pau Preto (the Crown of Feathers trilogy). Wren Graven—a bonesmith able to psychically sense and move bone—yearns to become a ghost-battling Valkyr like her father. After failing her trial, however, the House of Bone's leader—Wren's imperious grandmother—exiles Wren to the Border Wall, a defensive stronghold against both the Breach, a revenant-infested wasteland, and the soldiers of the exiled House of Iron, whose mining created the Breach that birthed said monsters. When House of Gold prince Leo Valorian visits the Wall, Wren accompanies him on his inspection, hoping to impress. But soon after his arrival, House of Iron soldiers attack, capturing Leo and abandoning ironsmith Julian Knight, who falls into a chasm with Wren. The soldiers flee into the Breach, prompting the left-for-dead pair to cooperate and give chase—Wren to save Leo and her reputation and Julian to unravel the apparent conspiracy against him. Pau Preto's kaleidoscopic close-third-person narrative complements the swiftly paced, bombshell-strewn plot, which crescendos to an explosive finish. Wren's friendship with fun-loving Leo adds levity, while her romantic sparks with broody Julian inject tension. The cast is ethnically diverse. Ages 14–up.
Customer Reviews
Enemies to Lovers
“Death is as certain as the dawn, and just as a new day will come, so too will the new dead rise. And we will be there. To find. To fight. To free. So the living may thrive, and the dead may rest in peace.”
Bonesmith is a fantasy novel that is filled with action, ghost, enemies to lovers, kidnapped Prince, betrayal, with twist and turns!
Wren, the heir of the House of bones is training to become a valkyr. A Valkyr, the one to protect the reapyr and battle the undead. While the reapyr must find the bone that anchor’s the spirit and to safely release the spirit free from the body.
Unfortunately for Wren, she fails the Valkyr trials and is sent to patrol the Border Wall, the same wall separating them from the undead.
What happens when the Gold Prince gets kidnapped and the only way for wren to get the respect from her family is to retrieve him, to proof her worth. She ends up in a difficult situation when she’s face to face with one of the kidnappers? Will they team up and retrieve the Prince together? What happens when they have to venture out beyond the wall, into the wasteland where the vicious undead roam, stronger than anything Wren has seen or battled. Will she make it out alive and complete her mission or will death be upon her for trusting the enemy?
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I couldn’t put this novel down. I was drawn to the characters, the world building, along with the action and adventure to dangerous unknowns.
I enjoyed the multiple character POV, making you understand their personalities, and their way of thinking.
I thought we were getting a love triangle but was happy to have a care free friendship with the Prince. The tension between Wren and Julian was intriguing, feeling their distrust in one another and having to work together to find answers and rescue the Prince. Then watching them fall for one another. I can’t wait for more twist & turns in the second instalment of the duology “House of the Dead” coming 2024!