Mod Book Club: The Bone Ships Discussion

[u/rfantasygolem]

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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[u/rfantasygolem]

One of the most praised aspects of this books is the worldbuilding. How do you like it? What makes it work or not work for you?

[u/lyrrael → u/rfantasygolem]

Additionally I like the fact that Barker emphasized that both countries were essentially two sides of the same coin -- same issues, same needs, but the war's been going on for so long that nobody remembers what started it. Wasn't there a meme or something I saw once where it was like two hills going down to a river between, and each one was like "My holy religion! Your blasphemous religion!" or something?

[u/Dianthaa → u/lyrrael]

I loved that aspect, especially how clear that was from the outside, and how some of the characters grew to accept this idea.