kingdom of needle and bone by mira grant

But what if the new movement of not vaccinating your children, made it possible for that to all come crumbling down and a new slightly modified version of something thought practically gone from the world is back and so are the fatality rates of old. Those times have been almost forgotten and with the invention of vaccinations those diseases, almost eliminated from the face of the earth. When a viral infection could decimate an entire community or reduce the world’s population by 25%.

There is a forgotten time when pandemics ran rampant quarantines were common and the threat of a loved one dying from something like Measles, Mumps, Smallpox or Whooping Cough was real. It is smart, well thought out, and told in a very gripping manner. I work in a science field and I loved this sci-fi worst-case scenario of “what if” with the increasing number of un-immunized children there was an unseen consequence that a new pandemic could arise. This is the first book I’ve under the name Mira Grant and color me impressed. I’ve read almost everything written under this author’s other name of Seanan McGuire, I can’t get my hands on her books fast enough.

But she can, perhaps, do the right thing. She will never be forgiven, not by herself, and not by anyone else. It may be the only way to atone for her part in everything that’s happened. 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.

When its terrible side consequences for the survivors become clear, something must be done, or the dying will never stop. 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. Those old diseases can’t have been so bad, people say, or we wouldn’t be here to talk about them. For with the reduction in danger comes the erosion of memory, as pandemics fade from memory into story into fairy tale. There are still monsters left to fight, but the old ones, the simple ones, trouble us no more. Vaccination and treatment are widely available, not held in reserve for the chosen few. Modern medicine has conquered or contained many of the diseases that used to carry children away before their time, reducing mortality and improving health. Published by Tantor Audio on April 30, 2019Īmazon, Audible, Audiobook, Barnes & Noble This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Kingdom of needle and bone by mira grant