Uprooted by Naomi Novik was a perfect fantasy story/fairytale. It’s got all the right parts (dark magic, regular magic, unimpressed heroine, ambivalent wizard, etc), but isn’t terribly predictable, and forms real characters instead of shadows of well-known archetypes. By following the easy-to-like first-person narrator Agnieszka, and seeing her relate to the Dragon, her best friend Kasia, and all the others, painted a vivid and realistic picture of the world. We even get a surprising amount of moral ambivalence, considering the genre. A very good book. I may start to read Naomi Novik’s fantasy series if Uprooted is any indicator for that series’ quality.
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Uprooted
| author: | Naomi Novik (2015) |
|---|---|
| date added: | 2018-07-20 |
| date read: | 2018-07-21 |
| pages: | 438 |
| author: | gender:female, origin:us |
| awards: | british-fantasy-award, british-fantasy-award-nominees, hugo-award-nominees, nebula-award, nebula-award-nominees, world-fantasy-award-nominees |
| genre: | fantasy |
| themes: | myths-legends |
| rating: | ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ |
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