Bonesmith

This was such a unique and refreshing fantasy book that I'm so glad I picked up.

The world is quite unique and interesting - with different houses based on materials they can work with their magic (gold, silver, iron, bone, etc) but also control over the undead. It had a good amount of history and lore sprinkled throughout to build up the setting without info dumping.

I really liked that there the starts of a romance but it didn't revolve around that. The book wasn't written around the tropes which seems to be a trend recently, it wasn't written just to get on a list of “Spicy TikTok books”. Such a nice change.