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Reviewed by Christian Sia for Readers' Favorite
Daughter of Ash and Bone by S. Ramsey follows Alice Reed, a foster-care survivor who works at a lab. The law firm of Franklin, Maier, and Ziegler hands her a golden pendant from her shadowy ancestor, Campbell Graves, and it pulls her into a war between Norse deities. She has just become the divine bearer of a token belonging to Odin, and Loki targets her by infiltrating her life, disguised as the manipulative Devlin Frost. The spirits of the Graves family guide her through dangerous landscapes as she receives help from a colleague named Beckett, who is also not who he seems to be. Alice discovers tunnels and hidden armories in the manor she inherited, learns teleportation, and plunges into Yggdrasil’s roots to unlock the power of what she carries before it is too late.
Daughter of Ash and Bone moves slowly from unopened mail to a hollow portal realm, melding the heroine’s mundane trauma with mythology. Alice is a well-sculpted character who learns the hard way that survival also means accepting a birthright she never even asked for. S. Ramsey gets the pacing right, and the slow rhythm of life at Alice’s lab quickly gives way to escalating tension as she struggles to decipher who she truly is and her connection to Norse lore, with physical challenges that include confrontations with Loki’s followers and a battle with a frost giant. The author skillfully infuses the third-person voice with intimacy, using prophetic dreams and chapter titles like “Beam Me Up, Scotty” that hint at pop culture to ground the mythic in the heroine’s skeptical perspective. You’ll love the characters, from Alice, broken by trauma, to mythical beings hiding their loneliness in human form. This novel was captivating and an utter delight to read.
