Nettle & Bone

I really liked the byline of this book. "This isn't the kind of fairy tale where the princess marries the prince. It's the one where she kills him." This is a subversive novel in that sense. It is pretty dark, but very satisfying. The prose is excellent, as I've come to expect from Kingfisher. I've really enjoyed her work so far. The last book of hers I read was A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, which was really inventive. This one is inventive too, but I found it a slower read. It's only about 250 pages, but I found I couldn't really zip through it until the last fifty pages or so. That's when it really grabbed me and I fought immense drowsiness to get through the end. This book was nominated for a 2023 Hugo, which will be announced later this year, and a 2022 Nebula. While I think this book is pretty good, I don't think it's exactly award worthy.

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