#Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

[msunitedstatesjames]

Most fairy tale retellings: The evil person in fairy tales is just misunderstood.

T. Kingfisher fairy tale retellings: Actually, the evil person in fairy tales is even more evil than you thought.

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[godzilla-reads]

I have to say that I may only be like 80 pages in but I’d do anything for Bonedog. The best of boys.

[ibrithir-was-here]

Back from vacation! And instead of fixing my sleep schedule properly I made two fan covers of @tkingfisher ‘s fantastic fairytale book ‘Nettle and Bone’ cuz I have no self control xD

Also I haven’t drawn in a week and that’s waaaay too long for me. Anyway go check out the book!

It’s really fun and spooky and has the feel of an epic fairytale DnD campaign; with the fantastic cast of motley heroes—a sort of a nun princess, a fay stolen soldier, a dust-witch with a demon possessed chicken, a comfy fairy godmother who’s more then she seems and The Best Dog who happens to be made of bones—all off to save a princess from a wicked prince, while traveling through a deliciously creepy Goblin Market, a forest of sympathetic cannibals, and one of the most incredibly scary dungeon crawls I’ve ever encountered.

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Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

[agardenandlibrary]

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Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

[drplague1961]

ah, the joys of a t. kingfisher/ursula vernon book

[smittyreads]

Narrowed it down to my top 7 reads out of 64 from 2023 📚🎉

[stubbornvulpixquotes]

"I will not bend!" hissed the dead king, rising from his throne.

"Then you will break."

-T Kingfisher, Nettle and Bone

[msunitedstatesjames]

So, unlike some more enlightened people in the world, I just discovered T. Kingfisher/Ursula Vernon in 2021, and I can't believe how much I was missing.

I've read, I think, seven of her books now, and every one has been so well done. How can this woman write fantasy, horror, humor, romance, steampunk, fairy tale retellings, classic literature retellings, books for adults, books for teens, books for children, and often three to five of the above genres at once, and all of them are so good?

I've seen some of her work classified as cozy, which is kind of funny when you read a few of her books (they're anything but low stakes), but she has such a way of infusing every story with so much warmth and humor and love that I can understand why people say her writing is cozy.

This woman really wrote a book about a sister on a quest for revenge against the prince that has been systemically abusing and murdering her sisters (while she shares the road with a witch, a demon, a bone dog, a dude who recently escaped faerie enslavement, and a failed fairy godmother), and the book was both heartwarming and hilarious while breaching really difficult topics.

And the best part of all of this is that T. Kingfisher does all this, more often than not, in like 200ish pages.

But also, I just bought Swordheart and Paladin's Grace, and I'm really excited to see for the first time what she does with a book that's more than 300 pages.

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JOMP BPC - October 19th - Favourite Animal Companion

the demon-infested chicken from Nettle and Bone has my heart 😌

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May 04, 2023 - Rebel Scum

The trees were full of crows and the woods were full of madmen. The pit was full of bones and her hands were full of wires.

[godzilla-reads]

Since a couple of people suggested I read Nettle & Bone next- here I am. Definitely going through a T. Kingfisher-phase at the moment and enjoying it immensely.

[gatheryepens]

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.” - J.D. Salinger

[iambecomeafangirl]

Currently reading Nettle and bone by T. Kingfisher. I'm at page 53. It's mediocre writing (might be the fault of translation), but the vibes are ✨️ immaculate ✨️.

It's funny and creepy in a cozy way (dogs made of skeletons, legends of long dead grave robbers eating souls of people wandering around the castle). The main character just wants to chill and crochet and tend her convent's little garden. Honestly, same. Just 10/10.