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

Katherine Arden

Start date: March 1, 2020

Finish date: March 31, 2020

Discussion: Series

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Sep 26, 2022 Brandy {The Review Booth} rated it it was amazing

Shelves: owned-physical, 2021-goodreads-challenge

This is exactly the kind of fairy tale I search for – I have no idea why I hadn’t read it before now but at least this way I don’t have to wait for the other books to release. I immediately purchased them after finishing The Bear and the Nightingale. The world-building, the never a good choice situations people found themselves in, and the depth of emotional conflict (especially for Vasya) was so well done in this book. Vasya and her family reminded me a lot of the Stark’s before they leave Wint ...more

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Dec 12, 2019 JazzyReadz💜 rated it it was ok

This book just wasn’t for me. I figured it wouldn’t be. People that don’t like it are people, like me, who get bored when a plot focuses mostly on the characters and the plot itself runs super slow. That’s a lot of the negative reviews I read but I gave it a shot anyways and it was just like I feared. The book was well written but the plot moved too slow to maintain my interested. I cared little for the characters and things didn’t start to get interesting for me until the end.
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