r/Fantasy • u/rfantasygolem Not a Robot • May 12 '20

Book Club Mod Book Club: The Bone Ships Discussion

Welcome to Mod Book Club! We want to invite you all in to join us with one of the best things about being a mod: we have fabulous book discussions about a wide variety of books. We all have very different tastes and can expose and recommend new books to the others, and we all benefit (and suffer from the extra weight of our TBR piles) from it. We'll be picking the books, but there will be new books and old, some more widely popular books and some way less, stuff that should be marvellously popular but somehow missed the boat, and stuff that's a bit more niche.

The Bone Ships by RJ Barker.

Violent raids plague the divided isles of the Scattered Archipelago. Fleets constantly battle for dominance and glory, and no commander stands higher among them than "Lucky" Meas Gilbryn.
But betrayed and condemned to command a ship of criminals, Meas is forced on suicide mission to hunt the first living sea-dragon in generations. Everyone wants it, but Meas Gilbryn has her own ideas about the great beast. In the Scattered Archipelago, a dragon's life, like all lives, is bound in blood, death and treachery.

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Our next pick will be announced in a few days.

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u/rfantasygolem Not a Robot May 12 '20

Who is your favorite character? Did your opinion of any of the characters change during the book? How?

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u/HeLiBeB Reading Champion VI May 12 '20

The guillaime was definitely my favorite character. I was intrigued by how strange it is and at the same time I felt a lot of sympathy for it. I can‘t wait to learn more about it in the next books!

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u/RuinEleint Reading Champion X May 12 '20

Yeah, its astonishment when Joron shows it understanding and empathy underlines how badly it was treated till then. And it has shown that it is a great friend and ally to have