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Naomi Novik

Start date: December 21, 2017

Finish date: January 14, 2017

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Nebula Award for Best Novel 2015.
Hugo Award nominee for …more
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Nebula Award for Best Novel 2015.
Hugo Award nominee for Best novel of 2015.

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Sep 10, 2023 Danielle The Book Huntress rated it it was amazing

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This was my first book by Naomi Novik. And wow. It reads like a dark fairy tale with all the horrific violence and subject matter to be expected. But there's also a romance at its center. So much happens in this book, I was glad I listened to the audiobook, because it brought it to life for me. I feel like this book definitely skews towards a horror novel in many ways. Novik goes hard into the horror imagery, in my opinion. I have a fear of contagion and this book triggered me. Also, I've never ...more

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Oct 14, 2021 Alex rated it liked it

There's plenty here to like, particularly in the first half of the novel, since Novik finds a fairytale-esque voice with a Polish influence which might come across as unusual to those of us who grew up in a Western European tradition. Yet it's a feminist tale that doesn't really quite find the feminism, a Beauty and the Beast type fable that doesn't quite hit either the romantic or the dangerous sweet spot as Novik, halfway through the book veers further into a political fantasy style novel she' ...more

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May 22, 2017 flajol rated it it was amazing

Shelves: love-these-books, magic, fantasy, mythic

Oh my goodness, I loved this book! A real fairy-tale feel to it, and it had me gripped all the way through.

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Nov 02, 2022 Kimberly rated it liked it

This book was okay. I read it because I saw it mentioned on a lot of other fairytale-fantasy type book reviews, but it fell a little flat for me. I love the concept of the woods, but don't know if I love the way it unfolded. Kind of disappointed with the way it ended. ...more

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