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Deborah
Jun 24, 2015 rated it really liked it
Shelves: teen-book-club-material, fantasy, mature-teen, romance, magic, horror, faerie
Awesome! Part lyric Polish folk tale, part Machiavellian power puzzle, part humorous romance, and many parts horror, this unique story channeled my imagination from page one. A young Slavic village girl with the clumsy yet beautiful name of Agnieszka, is chosen in an ancient rite to serve the old wizard lord for 10 years. While the old wizard is ancient and crotchety, surly, and a bit fussy, he's also perpetually young, rather handsome, and lonely.

Sound Beauty and Beast-ish? Yes, but the story ...more
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Morgan
Oct 05, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fiction, audiobook, mythology-and-folklore, paranormal, mysteries-and-thrillers, tales-retold, witches-and-wizards, fantasy, nature, halloween-2015
"Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley."

Was I the only one waiting for the Dragon to turn into a dragon? :|

Don't be like me and go into this with some weird Beauty and the Beast, but the Beast is a Dragon and the Beauty is a bit of a fledgling witch assumptions.

The sorcerers in this book take on 'names' so The Falcon, The Hawk, The Dragon, The Was Really Hoping For An Actual Dragon... >.>

It very much called to mind old fairy tales, and it ...more
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Seahorse Library
Jun 18, 2016 rated it did not like it
Shelves: skimmed, didnt-finish, genre-ya, genre-fantasy

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This is the first book I sat down and read after an extremely lengthy book-hangover from reading A Court of Mist and Fury.

The first half of chapter one was intriguing, but the writing style started to bother me after a while. Uprooted is written in a very "tell versus show" sort of way and as such, I found it hard to connect to Agnieszka.

I didn't know how to make food like that at all, and I quailed thinking that the Dragon would expect it. But I was des ...more
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Marcy
Jul 17, 2022 rated it really liked it
Shelves: read-or-reread-2022
I am not usually a fan of books in this sort of genre, but this one was really good. The blurb on the back of the book told very little of the story, so between that and perhaps my limited exposure to books in this sort of genre, every aspect of the story surprised me. (view spoiler) ...more
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Lisi
May 30, 2015 marked it as wishlist  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: next-order
Meghan
Jun 01, 2015 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fantasy, favorites
Delitealex
Jul 11, 2015 marked it as to-read
Andrada
Aug 15, 2017 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: favorites, read-in-english, fantasy, young-adult, 2017
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Clara
Nov 10, 2015 rated it liked it
Julie
Nov 30, 2015 rated it really liked it
Sara A
Dec 15, 2015 marked it as to-read
Erika
Jan 17, 2016 marked it as dnf
Karigan
Apr 19, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Wendy
Apr 21, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: ya, fantasy
Paula S
Feb 10, 2020 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fairy-tales, fantasy
Rachel Willis
Jul 10, 2016 marked it as to-read
Hailee
Jul 19, 2016 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: favorites, adult-fantasy
Rollie
Nov 03, 2016 marked it as wishlist
Jennifer
Feb 19, 2017 marked it as to-read
Shelves: 2017, fairy-tale-retellings
dominique
Aug 04, 2017 rated it really liked it
Marissa
Aug 18, 2017 marked it as to-read
Kaye
Mar 20, 2018 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Samantha
Aug 07, 2018 marked it as to-read
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