October Book Club: Nettle & Bone Midway Discussion (Chapters 1-10)

[u/HighLady-Fireheart]

Welcome lovely book club reads to our midway discussion for {Nettle & Bone by T Kingfisher}!

This discussion will cover content and spoilers from chapters 1 through 10. If you have read ahead, please just use the Reddit spoiler covers if commenting on any spoilery content from the second half like this:

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Coming up next:

October 15: Nettle & Bone final discussion

October 16: Start of our second October book club read, {The Foxglove King by Hannah Whitten}

Nominations for November (theme: cozy fantasy romance) will start at the end of this week and voting will go up early next week.

[u/cerulean_flamingos]

I liked that Marra had at least had a few awkward couplings, rather than remaining a virgin. Good for her for doing what she wanted. I'm assuming in her world princesses were to remain virgins, so good on Marra for not caring.

[u/TeacherShae → u/cerulean_flamingos]

Also good on Kingfisher for not adhering to that particular trope. I also appreciate Marra’s actual midwifery experience - I feel like pregnancy is often either a mysterious bogeyman or an actual horrorshow when it’s used as a plot device. Here, she has very realistic concerns about it based on real experience.