Week 45 Review: The Bone Maker

From Goodreads:

From award-winning author Sarah Beth Durst, a standalone epic fantasy set in a brand-new world of towering mountains and sparkling cities, in which a band of aging warriors have a second chance to defeat dark magic and avenge a haunting loss.

Twenty-five years ago, five heroes risked their lives to defeat the bone maker Eklor—a corrupt magician who created an inhuman army using animal bones. But victory came at a tragic price. Only four of the heroes survived. 

Since then, Kreya, the group's leader, has exiled herself to a remote tower and devoted herself to one purpose: resurrecting her dead husband. But such a task requires both a cache of human bones and a sacrifice—for each day he lives, she will live one less.

She'd rather live one year with her husband than a hundred without him, but using human bones for magic is illegal in Vos. The dead are burned—as are any bone workers who violate the law. Yet Kreya knows where she can find the bones she needs: the battlefield where her husband and countless others lost their lives.

But defying the laws of the land exposes a terrible possibility. Maybe the dead don't rest in peace after all.  

Five warriors—one broken, one gone soft, one pursuing a simple life, one stuck in the past, and one who should be dead. Their story should have been finished. But evil doesn't stop just because someone once said, "the end."

My Review:
Reading this book was so fantastic! This is the 2nd story this year that I've read that has the concept of the story after "the end" for the heroes, though in a different way. And this is a fictional world. I just loved reading this book, I devoured it! 

Sarah Beth Durst has only had a couple of series, the majority of her books are stand alones. But the worlds are always so incredible, that I would love to spend more time in them if she wrote more about them, and this was no exception. 

This book was also about loss, and dealing with grief-Kreya's husband died in the war, and she turned to the magic the bad guy was using to temporarily bring him back. But there's a way to bring him back permanently-it just means breaking more than one taboo. 

But this book was also about this group of people who did fight this bad guy. We were mainly in Kreya's perspective, but we were in the heads of basically every member of the group, however briefly. I loved seeing their relationships, how they got along with one another-how they coordinated, trusted in each other, to take down the bad guy! 

This book was such a great read, I loved it so much! I can't wait to read more by Sarah Beth Durst! 

Author: Sarah Beth Durst 
Read: November 3rd, 2020
Source: Edelweiss 
Reason Why: Love her writing and it sounded really fantastic, and it's a SAC 2020 Book and a WoW Book! 
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Expected Publication: March 9th 2021

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars