But there's more complexities with Smokey's family ferociously disapproving of his marriage to Camille - and Camille earning the enmity of Smokey's father, a dangerous White Dragon. And Trillian returns - which means balancing her 3 lovers.
Then there's further plotting the spirit seals - it seems Queen Astaria is not content to just hold on to them and there's growing tension between the Otherworld Fae and the Triple Threat - the three newly re-established queens of the fae. Camille finds her in the middle of demands from both the courts of the fae, and summoned to Otherworld to see the plan hatched with her father despite her misgivings.
Then there's the Moon Mother, Camille's goddess, who has her own plans that may force Camille's path.
In many ways Bone Magic was a much tighter book than previous books in the series, There was much less unnecessary description, the fight scenes were quicker and smoother without the huge pre-amble that used to precede them. We have their daily life, but without it being bloated with unnecessary detail dragging down the whole plot. It was tighter, it moved more smoothly and there were less distractions. It wasn't perfect - there was still an unnecessary need to describe what everyone was wearing at all time and some really massive geography info-dumps that weren't needed or that helpful - though I'm impressed at the sheer amount of planning and work that has gone into creating this world. Yasmine Galenorn almost certainly has drawn maps and it wouldn't surprise me if she had a stack her own height of world building notes.
But we also have recaps. Now, the recaps, as far as recaps go, are pretty good, they're concise, they carry a whole lot of information in the smallest possible space. But this is book 7 in a series - book 7 in a series that has a lot going on, a lot of side plots and a lot of different factions and powers and a vastly huge world. There is no way a recap can be short and not be an info-dump.
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