Kingdom of Needle and Bone

by Mira Grant

[Berls]

The timing of Mira Grant's writing of this novella is absolutely chilling. Just 1 year before the COVID pandemic transformed our world, here she is writing about a pandemic that does the same thing - albeit on a much more devastating scale than COVID has (thank goodness).

For a novella, this has considerable character development and manages a couple unexpected twists. I feel like I can't fully comment on my feelings because that would give away the biggest twist of all... but I will say one of the twists really changed my feelings about one of the characters and maybe the whole novella? It also left me with so many questions that I would really like answered! I buddy read this with Anne and the twist really gave us a lot to talk about! (and prompted even more questions!)

I listened to Kingdom of Needle and Bone narrated by Cris Dukehart. This was my first time listening to her (at least I think). I really enjoyed her narration at 2x speed and would not hesitate to pick up another book she narrates.