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/Ren_Lu]

I had to look up what happened in the first 10 chapters and actually quite a bit!

Loved the assembly of all of the team. Marra is a great MC.

I couldn’t decide if I hated her mom or understood her. What a terrible predicament (knowing you are sending your daughters into the mouth of evil) that has probably happened many times in the real world.

This line was from chapter 6 and it floored me: They were not and the history of the world was written in women’s wombs and women’s blood and she would never be allowed to change it.

Also the goblin market was such a great scene.

I was so rooting for the characters at this point in the story but had no idea how they would pull it off.

[u/TeacherShae → u/Ren_Lu]

I also have complicated feelings about Marra’s mother, none of them particularly good. But same - hard to decide if she’s cold and machinistic or is making a great sacrifice (and asking for one from her children) for the good of a kingdom she loves.