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Nettle & Bone

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Liz Bourke of Locus Magazine praised the "excellently bizarre worldbuilding", writing that Kingfisher's work reminded her of Terry Pratchett "at his best". Actually, she’s thirty - even though her naïveté would have fit a teenager (but I’ll let that slide since she’s accompanied by a no-nonsense old woman who makes up for Marra’s mental youth). It worked perfectly as an introduction to spooky season for me, and for that alone I'm really glad I decided to pick this up on a whim!

when she realizes that she is the only one who will do something - anything - to avenge her dead sister and save her living one, she takes matters into her own hands: she is going to murder the cruel prince. there are definitely some interesting concepts - the goblin market, the role of fairy godmothers, and bone dogs all intrigued me - but they are brief, fleeting moments in a story that gets straight to the point.

Marra had grown up sullen, the sort of child who is always standing in exactly the wrong place so that adults tell her to get out of the way. A cosy and heartwarming fantasy about a princess, a witch, a demon chicken, a pragmatic soldier who got stuck in fairyland, and a godmother trying very hard to be a good person. For a moment she had envied them, two people punished through no fault of their own, because they had each other. It takes Marra some time to get going and decide that she has to deal with things herself but once she does she won’t be deterred by anything. the bones of this book will resonate with many of us - band of adventurers must face trials and tribulations, cleverly overcoming enchanted obstacles, to save the kingdom - and yet it is so distinctly t.

Marra needs to hurry, she's convinced the tyrant prince of the Northern Kingdom was responsible of her death and now her sister Kania might have the same terrible fate. It was a finalist for the 2023 Nebula Award for Best Novel [10] and the 2023 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra―the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter―has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. Luckily, along the way Marra is joined by the dust-wife, a banished knight, a sketchy fairy godmother, the bone dog and a chicken possessed by a demon 🐓, all willing and happy to help her commit regicide. When she discovers her sister is being abused, she is determined to stop this prince using whatever magic she can scrounge up.The villain is very much a background character who gets only a few lines of dialogue and two or three short appearances in the whole book. I don't want to spoil this book for anyone so I don't want to say too much, but it follows the traditional hero's journey format with multiple fairytale references for those in the know.

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