The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2) in Once Upon a Time...

Jul 09, 2018 Carrie rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, historical-fiction, demons, heroine-i-adore, 4-and-a-half-to-5-stars, russia, historical-fantasy, next-in-a-series, series-overload

It's more then 4 stars...but not a full 5 stars.

I can not wait for book 3 though...I'd like to be reading it now.. ...more

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Aug 23, 2017 Jewel rated it really liked it

Shelves: beautiful-prose, heartbreaking, fairytale-retellings

I think Katherine Arden is a brilliant author, and I love how in her author bio it says that she just casually wrote this series while working on a farm in Hawaii. It is seriously so well written and so well plotted.

Even though I read the first book in this series months ago, I picked up right where I left off with no problem.

I loved that there was a villain switch in this novel and the demonizing of Christianity was less prominent in this book. I think Sasha was the only good hearted Christia ...more

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Nov 13, 2019 Kirstie rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, fairy-tale

A strong follow up to the first of the series. Vasya continues to be a total hero, though (as you can probably guess in a historically accurate Russia) it doesn't get her very far once people realise she's a woman.
The family relationships continue to be amazing in this book too, as well as all the character motivations. The magic is just as rich and we get to see a Russia struggling between it's old gods and the new Christian god, as well as trying to establish it's strength against it's war-lik ...more

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Feb 07, 2017 Jennifer marked it as to-read

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Apr 02, 2018 Kara rated it really liked it

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Jul 30, 2017 Caitlin marked it as to-read

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Aug 29, 2017 Deedee marked it as to-read

Shelves: year-2017, coverx-horse, fantasy, coverx-animal-real, title-has-5-words-or-more, added-060117-083117, series-2nd, g2, np-what-weve-read-2022-one, k3

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