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Uprooted

Naomi Novik

Start date: July 1, 2016

Finish date: July 30, 2016

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May 22, 2015 Plethora rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: library, fantasy, zz-2016-readwomen_project, fiction, nbrc-2015towerteam, zz-2016-reads, zborn-united_states, y_born-apr, reading-addicts-botm, women

Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. Considering the Dragon is actually a man that is thankful to know. I found myself quickly pulled into the world that Agnieszka lives in. Confused, angry, and hurt Agnieszka has no idea why the Dragon has chosen her, everyone was sure her best friend Kasia was going to be chosen. A tad clique, but enter here, a teen filled with angst that has no intensions of accepting her new place in the Dragon's tow ...more

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Aug 16, 2016 Crisanda rated it really liked it

Shelves: new-author, ought-to-be-a-movie, fantasy, magic, 2016, beautiful-covers

This book was unexpected. Unexpectedly good. The fast paced book took such unimagined turns, I couldn't do anything but keep reading in wonder. I think of trees and forests as good happy things, so having Naomi Novik turn them into horribly evil things that terrified me was a refreshing twist. I have always felt that the abstract unknown makes for scarier villains, and Uprooted is a case in point. The challenge, then, with such books is that the villain has to be understood in order to defeat it ...more

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Jul 08, 2016 Megan W rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2016

Enchanting. I found the writing to be a spell in itself and honestly, after I finished this book I was so at peace yet unable to gather my thoughts about it!

Excellent stand alone.

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