![]() ![]() Equal parts spooky and melancholy, funny and heartfelt, The Gravedigger's Son is a gorgeous debut that will long sit beside Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book and Jonathan Auxier's The Night Gardener. There, the two are captured by a coven of Weavers, dark magic witches who want only two thing to escape the murky woods where they've been banished, and to raise the dead and shift the balance of power back to themselves. But please dont worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy The Gravediggers Son. Just as Ian's friend, Fiona, convinces him to talk to his father, they're lured into the woods by a risen corpse that doesn't want to play by the rules. So he reluctantly continues his training under the careful watch of his undead mentor, hoping every day that he's never Called and carefully avoiding the path that leads into the forbidden woods bordering the cemetery. Such a wish is, of course, selfish and impossible. But Ian doesn't want to help the dead he wants to be a Healer and help the living. ![]() ![]() It's his family's job to bury the dead and then, when Called by the dearly departed, to help settle the worries that linger beyond the grave so spirits can find peace in the Beyond. Patrick Moody (Author of The Gravedigger's Son) Patrick Moody Goodreads Author Born Trumbull, CT, The United States Twitter Patmoody2 Genre Fantasy, Children's, Paranormal Influences Peter S. "A Digger must not refuse a request from the Dead." Rule Five of the Gravedigger's Code Ian Fossor is last in a long line of Gravediggers. ![]()
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