Kingdom of Needle and Bone, Mira Grant
Kingdom of Needle and Bone, Mira Grant
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Kingdom of Needle and Bone

Author: Mira Grant

Narrator: Cris Dukehart

Unabridged: 3 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/30/2019

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Modern medicine has conquered or contained many of the diseases that used to carry children away before their time, reducing mortality and improving health. Vaccination and treatment are widely available, not held in reserve for the chosen few. There are still monsters left to fight, but the old ones, the simple ones, trouble us no more.

Or so we thought. For with the reduction in danger comes the erosion of memory, as pandemics fade from memory into story into fairy tale. Those old diseases can't have been so bad, people say, or we wouldn't be here to talk about them. They don't matter. They're never coming back.

It begins with a fever. By the time the spots appear, it's too late: Morris's disease is loose on the world, and the bodies of the dead begin to pile high in the streets. When its terrible side consequences for the survivors become clear, something must be done, or the dying will never stop. For Dr. Isabella Gauley, whose niece was the first confirmed victim, the route forward is neither clear nor strictly ethical, but it may be the only way to save a world already in crisis. It may be the only way to atone for her part in everything that's happened. She will never be forgiven, not by herself, and not by anyone else. But she can, perhaps, do the right thing.

About Mira Grant

Mira Grant is the author of the New York Times bestselling Newsflesh trilogy, along with many other works of biomedical science fiction and horror. She has been nominated for the Hugo Award multiple times, and her first book, Feed, was chosen as one of NPR's Top 100 Killer Thrillers. She lives outside Seattle.


Reviews

Goodreads review by karen

oh, man - i forgot to float this on pubday! ahem - NOW AVAILABLE!!! thanks, assholes! for some reason, the synopsis for this one didn’t excite me - no zombies, no sentient tapeworms, no killer mermaids, just a faceless, familiar threat: regular old disease. i didn’t grab the novella right away on net......more

Goodreads review by Debra

"We never think about what our choices are going to mean for the lives of the ones we love," said Izzy. "We only think about what they're going to mean for us. If we're lucky, we're not the only ones who have to live with them. To vaccinate or not to vaccinate.... that is the question! This book start......more

re-read update (2022): I was a little bit apprehensive to re-read this now, given the state of the world and all that over the past two years, but I honestly enjoyed it even more this time around. I still wish we could get a follow-up book, but at the same time, I feel like it makes sense to leave th......more

Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire) continues to amaze me. What an incredible story this is. A novella that could easily be extended into a book or three. This flu epidemic gone wrong dystopian story makes me think it was Grant’s other idea to start off her very popular book trilogies Feed or Parasite.......more