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Uprooted

Naomi Novik

Start date: December 17, 2015

Finish date: December 31, 2015

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Jun 24, 2015 Deborah 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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Feb 10, 2018 keres rated it really liked it

Shelves: favorites, sffbc

A story of high fantasy, along the sword and sorcery/heroic fantasy vein, or folklore of the enchanted forests/dark wood ilk. Reading this felt a bit like finding out there's another, longer version of an old familiar fairytale, or the "real story" behind a well-known legend or folktale.

I enjoyed the story but would call this a fantasy, a coming-of-age story, a sword & sorcery tale, a story of friendship, etc., rather than romance. People picking this up to read as a romance per se might well b ...more

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Jun 07, 2019 Diane rated it it was amazing

I loved this. A real book to get away with. Loved the fairy tale feel to it.

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Jun 18, 2016 Seahorse Library rated it did not like it

Shelves: didnt-finish, skimmed, 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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