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| Original Title: | Uprooted |
| ISBN: | 0804179034 (ISBN13: 9780804179034) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Agnieszka, The Dragon, Prince Marek, Kasia |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2016), Nebula Award for Best Novel (2015), Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2016), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2016), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (2016) British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award) (2016), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2015) |
Naomi Novik
Hardcover | Pages: 435 pages Rating: 4.09 | 145767 Users | 20575 Reviews
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“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.”Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life.
Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood.
But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose.
Details Appertaining To Books Uprooted
| Title | : | Uprooted |
| Author | : | Naomi Novik |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 435 pages |
| Published | : | May 19th 2015 by Del Rey |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Romance. Magic |
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Ratings: 4.09 From 145767 Users | 20575 ReviewsAppraise Appertaining To Books Uprooted
Solid, solid, solid. As solid as wood. Honestly, I was feeling a bit of trepidation before reading this, and I'm very happy to say that I didn't have any issues with the novel.What? No issues at all?No, not really. I honestly enjoyed opening characterizations, all focused more upon the hopes and the realistic expectations when it came to the Dragon who may or may not be an evil nobel/wizard, and I enjoyed the bait and switch enough that I just got suckered into the rest of the story despite allHave you ever loved the first half of a book but hated the second? Well I have and it sucks. It leaves you feeling rather torn in a review. So, Im going to tear my review in two and review the two halves separately. Here goes: First Half- A lovely magical friendship- 4*In the beginning I had a real reason to carry on reading. The character known as the Dragon was a complete enigma. Discovering what drove this lonely man was, essentially, the reason I carried on with the book. Hes such a cool
OH MY GOD A DRAGON. A TERRIBLE DRAGON WHO KIDNAPS A VILLAGE'S BEAUTIFUL YOUNG GIRLS. DO THEY GET EATEN?! DO THEY GET TORTURED?!!! WHAT IS THEIR TERRIBLE FATE?! They forget how to live here...[they] remember to be afraid, my father said. That was all. Then they took their dowry-silver and left. Mostly they would go to Kralia and go to the University. Often as not they married some city man, and otherwise they became scholars or shopkeepers. Are you fucking kidding me? *seethes*I swear to god
Once upon a time, I read myths, folktales and fairy tales. Thankfully, this was way back before Disney was ubiquitous, so I subsisted on Andrew Langs The [Color] Fairy Books, Ruth Manning-Sanders Book of [Magical Creature]s. And even Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, though they were usually devoid of the embellishment I enjoyed. Uprooted brought back the memory of those days, of reading an unfamiliar fairy tale for the first time. I was transported as I read at least for the first
Hey! You there! Please listen. On May 19th this book will be released - on that day go to this page or this page or another retailer of your choice and download the free sample of this book. If, by the end of that small sample, you are not convinced that this book is amazing, never think of it again. BUT, I sincerely doubt that will be the case.Because it took me ONE CHAPTER - well, a few pages really - to make me realize that this book was going to steal every bit of my spare time until I'd
This novel effortlessly conjured up the familiar magic of my childhood favorites it was like reaching for a sweater and finding my old worn favorite pushed into my hands. I'm going to wear it gleefully for a week, no matter the weather. This concludes my garment simile. Possibly fuller comments to come closer to publication date.
When it comes to rating books like Uprooted, I keep wishing I could give more than 5 stars. Because honestly, 5 stars are not enough. Beautiful. That's the word I've been searching for. Uprooted is a beautiful book. Naomi Novik narrates the story of young Agnieszka, a constantly unkempt girl who to everyone's astonishment was chosen to live in the dreadful wizard's tower for 10 years as the price for his assistance against the evil Wood. Agnieszka imagined how desperate and empty her life was
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