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The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)

Katherine Arden

Start date: March 12, 2017

Finish date: March 31, 2017

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What Members Thought

Mar 21, 2017 Flying Monkey rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2017

This was such an enjoyable book to read. I loved it and wished the story would have continued on for a couple more chapters. But, I guess that what makes this story so good.

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Jun 07, 2018 Kavitha Sivakumar rated it really liked it

Shelves: ir-armchair-2018

A Russian fairy tale retold with some modifications, I guess. Didn't expect to finish this book this fast. Want to read some actual Russian fairy tales. ...more

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Apr 16, 2021 Midu Hadi rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: female-protag, bought-in-2024, series-completion-in-progress, female-author, bought-in-october, pakistani-booksellers, series, physical-copies, us-author, first-in-the-series

What I Liked

The story is told in an almost lyrical way that ensnared my interest in it right away. The descriptions of the Russian winter are lovely the way a tiger is beautiful. Majestic but can kill you with a swipe of her paw lol Reminded me of Valente's Deathless and Keturah and Lord Death
by Martine Leavitt. Both are books that I really liked.

The way the protagonist's family are with each other. They frustrate each other and fight but there's also a lot of love.

How the story ended. Usually, ...more

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