The Boneless Mercies

352 pages

English language

Published Dec. 1, 2018 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

ISBN:: 978-0-374-30706-6

(4 reviews)

Frey, Ovie, Juniper, and Runa are the Boneless Mercies girls hired to kill quickly, quietly, and mercifully. But Frey is weary of the death trade and, having been raised on the heroic sagas of her people, dreams of a bigger life.

5 editions

anna_ealasaid reviewed The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke (Boneless Mercies, 1)

The Boneless Mercies

3 stars

A self-styled Norse saga with a plot as meandering as its source material, with evocative writing just about making up for the characters' lack of substance.

meeg

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Dec. 12, 2018

mageofmip@books.solarpunk.moe

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March 1, 2019

MaryKat

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Dec. 31, 2020

Subjects

Norse Mythology
Euthanasia
Mercenary troops
Monsters
Fiction