Nettle & Bone

I feel like the past few months have featured a lot of duty reading so it was weird and fun to read three books in a row that I simply wanted to read. For purposes of spoiler-avoidance I'm going to talk about them in three separate posts.

Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher, 2022. Like many Ursula Vernon books, very Ursula Vernon, which I continue to very much like. I don't think this one is set in the WhiteRativerse but it felt to me like a similar tone and kind of world - definitely more like those than like her recent horror like Twisted Ones or Hollow Places.

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A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers, 2022. Sequel novella to A Psalm for the Wild-Built, which I talked about here. I really enjoyed a bunch of things about this and yet I cannot say that it is a story in very much *happens*, and the project that I found interesting in the first one ("what kind of stories can be set in the better world") felt less interesting this time around. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for feelgood, I had an exhausting week (jury duty!) and the day I read this it was nice to read something nice. Just if we back-to-back give it the novella Hugo I'm going to roll my eyes so much. (So I guess I should get going finding five better novellas to nominate...)

Nona the Ninth

Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir, 2022. Picked this up Saturday morning from the library and basically did nothing else until I finished it Saturday night, and everything else goes behind the cut. (Uh, except these handy links to where I talked about Harrow and Gideon. And also the statement that without the previous books in hand I had to do a certain amount of referring to a Locked Tomb wiki to look up character names and where exactly we saw people last, and I would continue to call these more like "books you might want to reread before each installment" than "books you can definitely just pick up and you'll be fine".)

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