A review by deb_reads_books
Blade and Bone by Catherine Johnson

5.0

Super sequel to Sawbones but it could be read as a stand-alone. We follow Ezra as he goes to Paris to discover what's happened to Loveday and Mahmood. It is the time of the French Revolution and we are not spared any of the horrors of The Terror (might want to warn younger readers). Ezra takes up the offer he had in Sawbones, to visit the Hotel Dieu and see their surgeons in action. He meets one surgeon who Ezra soon realises puts medical discovery above human life and yet Ezra has to rely on him when Loveday gets into serious trouble. It's a fast-paced adventure full of twists and turns and yet challenges the reader to think about what freedom is and what people fight for. Good reading.