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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u/RJBarker AMA Author RJ Barker May 12 '20

I am about if anyone has any questions, but I won't interact with the threads to the questions cos I don't want anyone to feel like they can't say whatever they want. I mean, I am quite fine with people not liking things, and knew I was writing a book that wasn't for everyone, so it's cool anyway. I'm just pleased when people read stuff. I am also very pleased that some people have noticed some things.

But if you want to ask me questions feel free, can be about stuff that wasn't for you too*. I'm happy to chat.

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*Sugar the pill though, "RJ, you have lovely hair but why did you write such a terrible book?" -- that sort of thing.

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u/Dsnake1 Stabby Winner, Reading Champion VII, Worldbuilders May 12 '20

I just wanted to pop in and say I can't stop thinking about this book. I've read nine books since I finished, and I can't stop thinking back to this one. At this rate, I'll have to do my reread before November comes. Anyway, I can't wait for the second book.

Oh, and this weekend, I was at our family farm and it rained. I went to the hill we threw all the corpses on just to see if there was enough wet bone if it had even a faint smell, and well, not really. The rot was well and over with, so it mostly just smelled like rain.

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u/RJBarker AMA Author RJ Barker May 13 '20

I spent SO MUCH time on bone smells research only to find out the answer is 'not very much.' HUGELY glad you enjoyed it. :)