“Nettle & Bone is full of delights and surprises-and proves that has more than a few tricks left up her sleeve.”-Locus Highly recommended for fans of fractured fables like Naomi Novik’s Uprooted (2015) and Helen Oyeyemi’s Gingerbread (2019).' -Booklist, starred review 'Nettle & Bone leans into the macabre and evokes the Grimm-est of stories. this rollicking feminist fairy tale is filled with redemption, community and courage, its dark passages the road to a satisfyingly uplifting endgame.'-Shelf Awareness, starred review 'Kingfisher is an inventive fantasy powerhouse, and Nettle & Bone represents the burgeoning “hopepunk” ethos at its finest, with its winsome characters and focus on their fight to make the world a better place.'-Bookpage, starred review Harrow’s A Spindle Splintered and Melissa Albert’s ‘The Hazel Wood’ series should pick this up immediately.” -Library Journal, starred review “Blending fairy-tale familiarity and common-sense characters, Kingfisher’s prose balances grim circumstances with humor and heart. At its heart a story of good people doing their best to make the unjust world a fairer place, this marvelous romp will delight Kingfisher’s fans and fairytale lovers alike.”-Publishers Weekly, starred review “Deeply satisfying and darkly funny feminist fairytale.

It's creepy, funny, heartfelt, and full of fantastic characters I absolutely loved!” -Melissa Caruso, author of The Tethered MageĪt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Fairytale mythic resonance meets homey pragmatism in this utterly delightful story. “Nettle & Bone is the kind of book that immediately feels like an old friend. Hero or not-now joined by a disgraced ex-knight, a reluctant fairy godmother, an enigmatic gravewitch and her fowl familiar-Marra might finally have the courage to save her sister, and topple a throne. Seeking help for her rescue mission, Marra is offered the tools she needs, but only if she can complete three seemingly impossible tasks:īut, as is the way in tales of princes and witches, doing the impossible is only the beginning. But her sister wasn’t so fortunate-and after years of silence, Marra is done watching her suffer at the hands of a powerful and abusive prince.

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