Uprooted manages to be both familiar and fresh all at the same time, which is a writing feat worthy of accolade. The familiar fairy tale tropes, like the wizard in his tower and the creepy wood, feel like signposts rather than a well trampled road. Novik pulls heavily from Polish fairy tales and cul...
4.5 STARSOh, this was a much, much, MUCH better read than my previous one!Uprooted has it's roots in what I have to assume is Polish/Slavic legend and mythology. The story, to me, has that almost familiar feel to it. Not instantly recognisable but it's not totally alien, if you know what I mean.Th...
The Dragon protects the villages in the valley from the woods. Every ten years The Dragon picks a girl from the neighboring village to be his live in maid. When she leaves she doesn’t come back. She tends to be beautiful or special. Agnieszka is neither of those things, but her best friend Kasia is...
This book was a lot of fun. There’s a creepy evil Wood that sends out corrupted creatures or pollen to infect villagers and animals in the valley or commands giant stick insects or mantises to capture people and trap them in trees. I liked how things were resolved with regards to the acceptance of c...
This is an original, enchanting and beautifully written story that involves the Dragon, a village girl, a bunch of wizards, princes, scheming, friendship and an enraged forest. The characters are all strongly written and have their own personalities. It's hard to write anything else without spoili...
The worst book I have ever read. 17 years old girl acting like retarded 7 years old child, 100+years wizard acting like spoilt 13 years old. Whatever the book could offer was slaughtered by ridiculous characters and its 'Kasia'obssesion. The things she borrowed from Polish and Russian folklore (and ...
All my GR friends seem to LOVE this book, almost all the ratings here on GR are 4 or 5 stars, and I had to push myself to even finish it..Let's start with what I liked;- The beginning was okay. The Dragon that gets to choose 1 girl of 17 to serve him for 10 years, and that all the girls think it's g...
I had seen this book previously but the cover did nothing for me and I would just pass it by. Then my book club picked this and I finally read it. What a great book! I loved Agnieszka. And her relationship with the Dragon was fantastic even if they didn't see each other for a large portion of the bo...
Every now and then, I get a book that has all the things I’ve wanted in an adventure. I end up devouring the book, staying up far too late, and then suffering from a book hangover for a while. Uprooted, by Naomi Novik, turned out to be just such a book for me, living up to all the praise I’ve heard ...
I'm having the biggest withdrawals I've had in forever from a book. I'll write more later, but for now, I'll just say the NPR quote on the cover is spot-on: grab this book and be sure to clear your schedule. I could barely focus on work at all on Friday, since I was dumb enough to start reading it o...
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