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Brood of Bones
Brood of Bones | A. E. Marling
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Cursed with endless drowsiness, Enchantress Hiresha sleeps more than she lives. Since she never has had a chance to raise a family, she sometimes feels like every woman is pregnant except for her. This time, she is right. From virgin to grandmother, all the women in her city have conceived. One unexpected pregnancy is a drama; fifty thousand is citywide hysteria. A lurking sorcerer drains power from the unnatural pregnancies, and Hiresha must track him by his magic. Unfortunately, her cultured education in enchantment ill equips her to understand his spellcraft, which is decidedly less than proper. The only person uncivilized enough to help is the Lord of the Feast, a dangerous yet charming illusionist. Associating with him may imperil Hiresha's city, yet refusing his help will allow the sorcerer to leech godlike power from the mass births.
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Brood of Bones | A. E. Marling
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Bailedbailed

There‘s a lot to recommend this one, including immersive worldbuilding and multiple magic systems, but the prose style just isn‘t for me. It‘s fussy and often purple; a good fit for the propriety-obsessed narrator, but not something I can enjoy. The deeper I got, the more it reminded me of Gene Wolfe (albeit with less obscure vocabulary choices). I decided to bow out at 46%.

Major TW for pregnancy-related horrors, too.

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Brood of Bones | A. E. Marling
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I can‘t decide if I like BROOD OF BONES. I‘m interested in the worldbuilding, but the writing hits my mental ear the wrong way. It‘s a perfect fit for this narrator, which makes me more forgiving of the purple bits, but I‘m 80% sure I dislike the narrator so a prose style that fits her isn‘t necessarily a positive. I dunno. Several LibraryThing reviewers mention it gets really good past a certain point, so I‘ll try to hit that at least.

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Brood of Bones | A. E. Marling
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I‘m gonna post a book (or series) from my TBR every day until I‘ve shared the lot. No descriptions. No explanations. Just a whole bunch of books I haven‘t read yet.

This is Day 39.

#LaTBRrevealed