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The Bear and the Nightingale
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Kirstie
Nov 13, 2019 rated it really liked it
In a small town near a forest in a historically accurate Russia, a girl grows up seeing the domovoy and other magic creatures. When her new step mother moves in it turns out she too can see them, but thinks them horrible demons and a young handsome priest also new to the town encourages her and begins to make the people of the town abandon their old gods for the one true god, unwittingly holding open a door for a terrible god, brother of the Winter King,

Based on Russian fairy tales this story di
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So this is one of the most confusing ratings for me to give, so I'll leave it unrated. Technically, I give it 4 stars for writing style (that was an amazing writing style), and 2 stars for plot development. The plot, I felt, needed so much more work. Not because it was slow-paced (I'm actually more fond of books that are slow-paced), but because the plot didn't really begin till about 2/3 of the way. The writing style makes up for it, but even then the plot needed more work. However, I look forw ...more
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