Naomi Novik

Uprooted

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Naomi Novik, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels, introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends, as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale.«Every so often you come upon a story that seems like a lost tale of Grimm newly come to light. Uprooted is such a novel. Its narrative spell is confidently wrought and sympathetically cast. I might even call it bewitching.»--Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked and Egg & Spoon «Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that's not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he's still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we're grateful, but not that…
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  • Gabriel Ceballosshared an impression8 years ago

    Catching! Would recommend it

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    👍Worth reading

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  • afifahtamherhas quoted7 years ago
    “Are you deranged?”
    “I thought you were going to throw me in the oven,”
  • Jᜀᜈ᜔ᜈhas quoted8 months ago
    “Marek, forgive me. Marek—your brother is dead. They killed him in the first ambush, when he went to survey the river.”

    OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK

  • Jᜀᜈ᜔ᜈhas quoted8 months ago
    “Not until I’ve eaten lunch, we won’t,” I said, not pausing: I was chopping carrots.

    He muttered something under his breath about recalcitrant idiots.

    Live laugh love The Dragon and Agnieszka's relationship

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