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The Bear and the Nightingale
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Rachel
Feb 19, 2020 rated it it was amazing
This was a wonderful, epic fairytale based on Russian legend and lore. Vasilisa is a wonderful character, a wild thing they often call her, who tends to the spirits guarding their house and learns to talk to horses. She and her family live away from the city, and the rules and restrictions of Christianity, until Vasilisa's father remarries the devout Anna who can also see the house spirits like Vasilisa, except she calls them devils.

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Renuka
Jul 01, 2019 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: fantasy
Idk what to even tag this - historical fiction fantasy? Mythology? Russian inspired lit? Whatever it was -- I LIKED IT.
Tammy
Jan 16, 2017 marked it as to-read
Becky
Jan 19, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Aerika
Feb 18, 2017 marked it as on-my-radar
Jaime
May 20, 2017 rated it it was ok
Shelves: arcs
Amanda R
Oct 30, 2019 rated it really liked it
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Jul 11, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Melissa
Jul 14, 2017 rated it it was amazing
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Suzi
Apr 22, 2018 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Natpat Mon
Dec 05, 2017 marked it as to-read
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Katie Day
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Feb 05, 2018 marked it as to-read
Denise
Feb 15, 2018 marked it as a-book-dump
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Apr 07, 2018 rated it liked it
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Rebecca
May 31, 2018 rated it really liked it
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Jcabato
Dec 24, 2019 marked it as to-read
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Jan 03, 2020 is currently reading it
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Oct 04, 2024 rated it really liked it
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