An enjoyable first part of a fantasy series - not so much as a single book, though. When I picked up the book, I was intrigued by the premise: an alternate universe where almost everything is (mostly) similar to ours in the 19th century, except dragons exist, they're sentient and are used for war,...
by Naomi Novik After enjoying one of the author's other books and hearing this one was good from many sources, I had to try it despite having little idea what it was about. As it turns out, I really enjoyed most of it! Every ten years a girl is chosen by the local wizard to come live in his towe...
by Naomi Novik I wanted to read something by Naomi Novik, but didn't realise this collection of short stories was fan fiction related to the Temeraire series, which I haven't read. Never mind, it's a good test of a story collection like this to see if it can stand on its own. The first story, Vo...
I finished a whole book! Woo! Take that, pandemic anxiety brain! But I don’t feel capable of properly reviewing it, so I’ll just say a thing or two and then do a victory lap of my little dining table or something. Thing one: I’m not a huge fan of the multiple points of view. Nearly every single PO...
A young woman named Agnieszka grows up in the village of Dvernik in the kingdom of Polnya. Her village is on the edge of a corrupted forest full of tree creatures that kidnap people and turn them into monsters. The valley is protected by a wizard called The Dragon, who once every 10 years selects a ...
I'm not super great at writing reviews of things or really writing down my feelings about anything, but I need to get better so HERE WE GO. (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ This was my first foray into the writing of Naomi Novik, but I have to say I really enjoyed myself. The characters were great and I enjoyed gett...
"Temeraire" is a fast, light, young adult that I would have consumed with relish had I read it in my teens. Sadly, I'm now too old and jaded fully to immerse myself in this book. I can admire its intent and execution but I can't give myself to it with the abandon it deserves. "Temeraire" sets up...
I don't know what to say about this awesome book. Novik does a great job of developing three characters (Miryem, Wanda, and Irinushka). The setting of the story is great and we have a fire demon, a race of people called the Staryk who live in a wintery world that is adjacent to the Russia the story ...
I'm not sure how to describe this book without getting bogged down in just reciting the plot. There's a moneylender's daughter who catches the eye of a winter fairy lord who wants her to turn silver into gold, but there's also a story about a demon and a Czar and everything gets tangled together and...
I think I expected this to be an extension of Uprooted, like maybe something 10 years down the road, or about some peripheral characters, or something, but that is not what this is at all. It's it's own thing, whole and true, something like a modern fairy tale, but one that fucks with the idea of bo...
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