Bone Crier's Moon (Bone Grace, #1)

by Kathryn Purdie

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Wow this is a impressively weaved story that changes at every turn. At the crux of this story our main characters are Ailesse who is a bone crier who scared duty to help ferry the dead to heaven or hell essentially. Bastien who is determined along with his friends Jules and Marcel to avenge the deaths of their furthers who were taken by bone criers. In this world bone criers in our to become ferries of the dead they must lure their amores to a bridge and murder them within a year or they both their lives will be forfeit.
The magic around the bone criers is cringe worthy as they must kill animals and use their bones to give them graces. I felt that was a bit gross in parts and did add to the creepy factor of a bone crier's right of passage. On top of that the mother has a whole lot of secrets about how all this works and she harbors those secrets to the harm of her daughter. I did wish at times that the directions that Sabine, Ailese best friend, was being given as she constantly is questioning what she needs to do to make things right again.
The descriptions of the battles against the dead both the chained and unchained was nerve racking and I really felt like i was in Sabine shoes as she try's to carve not only her own path but to attempt to save the life her friend. I intrigued to see where the story goes and how everything will play out.