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Uprooted

Naomi Novik

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Dec 26, 2015 Sad Sunday (Books? Me?!? NEVER!!!) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: all-time-favorites

Uh, and oh, this book was a one I was looking for. For a long time. For probably half a year I was struggling to find something that was really worth reading and captivating. Just plainly interesting (I can't express that feeling when you just find the right book and it overwhelms you, but I guess you know what I am trying to say...) I was even losing hope that great books just don't exist anymore. And then - BAM! I read it and I was just like:

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Jan 02, 2016 JJ || This Dark Material rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, 2016

Ah, how wonderful, a truly stand-alone novel! And yet, unfortunately, the tale Naomi Novik wants to tell in Uprooted would have been much better suited to a duology or trilogy. There's simply too. much. story. here. So much that while the book's first half develops a good pace, the final 200+ pages feel like a madcap race to the finish line. The world Novik has created holds a lot of potential and is certainly large enough to justify enough extra development into a second, possibly third book. I ...more

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Jan 31, 2017 Brittney Andrews (beabookworm) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: amaze-balls, bow-chicka-wow-wow

Well, all I'm going to say is that I will adore and cherish this book for the rest of my life. I think it's going to be pretty hard to top this book going forward. ...more

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Aug 14, 2017 Amy Lou rated it it was amazing

WOW, that was really... magical! It felt like such an authentic fairy tale and I LOVED both the writing style and Agnieszka! I'm just speechless right now. SO GORGEOUS. ...more

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Dec 14, 2015 Nikki rated it liked it

Shelves: did-not-finish

Oh man, I wanted to love this book so badly. :(

Definitely not for me. The writing style proved to be too slow for my liking. The descriptions had too much detail that I ended up skimming most of it. Yes, the image in my head is very clear, but what about the plot development? It’s sad how I really wanted to love this book but didn’t. Everything was too repetitive. I understand that the protagonist was clumsy, literally dirty, and untidy, but I didn’t have to be reminded of that fact every chapte ...more

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Aug 10, 2017 Marta Pascual Perez rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

Ahora mismo no tengo palabras. Pero si pudiera darle mas de 5 estrellas se las daría. Un cuento Oscuro va directo a mis favoritos. Y cuando recupere las palabras tras haber leido esta maravilla escribiré una reseña coherente.

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Jun 07, 2018 Dorka rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: want-to-buy

It's more like a 3.75 stars read

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Jan 01, 2017 Immzie rated it it was amazing

This review can also be found on my Wordpress Blog

But yes. At the current time of writing this, it is the first of January 2017, at about 5 in the evening. There is a glass of wine by my side (we couldn’t find any champagne) a fire roaring at the other side of the room, and a book by my computer that I have just finished.

Honestly, I almost regret reading this book at this point; I hadn’t planned to stay up for new years, since I was exhausted from work. However, I thought I would read a bit befo This review can also be found on my Wordpress Blog

But yes. At the current time of writing this, it is the first of January 2017, at about 5 in the evening. There is a glass of wine by my side (we couldn’t find any champagne) a fire roaring at the other side of the room, and a book by my computer that I have just finished.

Honestly, I almost regret reading this book at this point; I hadn’t planned to stay up for new years, since I was exhausted from work. However, I thought I would read a bit before sleeping. Three hours later, at 2 in the morning, I put the book down. When I got up this morning, I walked the dog, then sat down and read the last 100 pages or so, complaining whenever anyone distracted me. I don’t regret the reading (because I think the tone of this review already says I at least liked it) I regret that I loved it, and its set the bar far too high for every other book I read this year.

I didn’t actually go into this book expecting much. I don’t tend to these days, when books are hyped up online. I’ve been disappointed more than once, struck dumb on the reason why everyone seems to like that book.

But this one- it had everything I love in a book. Fairytales, magic, a grumpy immortal type… and a rather nice cover.

So I thought to try it, and I devoured it.

It was beautifully written. The words floating off the page and hovering before me so I felt like I was there in that dark wood with the characters, watching actions unfold. I wanted to know more about everything in their world. How the magic worked, how their magic all differed, the worlds history and what would happen next. I didn’t want to stop reading.

The characters were great as well- it’s pretty clear the Dragon was my favourite- he was so grumpy it made me laugh, but I did feel for him. I mean, Mainy was irritating at points, and he had spent so long on his own in his tower, not talking to anyone. He was lonely. Bless him.

The only problem I had was that I wanted more. I got to the last page and was like… ‘is this it?’ Everything seemed to be tided up really quickly, the last chapter a bit of a rush, as if it had run out of pages to be written on. But maybe that was because I didn’t want to let the characters go.

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