![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Marra is attempting to complete the three impossible tasks that will convince a dust-witch to help her kill a prince. Even in a desperate situation such as this, Marra (the above mentioned princess/almost-nun) is capable of dry humor. Our story opens with an exhausted princess who is also almost but not quite a nun (it makes sense in context) struggling to build a dog out of bones, so right away we know we are not in for a light hearted romp. I ate this book up to the detriment of several other things that I was supposed to be doing. Kingfisher’s novel The Hollow Places and combine them with the character dynamics and gentle, slow-burn romance of the Paladin series and you get Nettle and Bone, a fairy tale in which a princess enlists the help of a witch, a warrior, and an evil godmother in her efforts to kill a prince. TW: stillbirth and death of infants, domestic violence including rape (all of these are alluded to but not shown or explicitly described) ![]()
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