The resulting warmth and intimacy provide a nicely nurturing environment for her heroine’s unusual adventures.” - The Seattle Times “Novik takes us on a surprise-filled journey. “Novik here delivers a tale that is funny and fast-paced, laced with hair-raising battle scenes and conspiracies it also touches on deeper ecological concerns we grapple with today.” - The Washington Post The vivid characters around her also echo their fairy-tale forebears, but are grounded in real-world ambivalence that makes this book feel quietly mature, its world lived-in.” - The New York Times Book Review

and builds enough flesh on those bones to make a very different animal.

Naomi Novik skillfully takes the fairy-tale-turned-bildungsroman structure of her premise. “A very enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic. Clear your schedule before picking it up, because you won’t want to put it down.” -NPR Moving, heartbreaking, and thoroughly satisfying, Uprooted is the fantasy novel I feel I’ve been waiting a lifetime for. “ Uprooted has leapt forward to claim the title of Best Book I’ve Read Yet This Year. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose.

And there is no way to save her.īut Agnieszka fears the wrong things. She knows- everyone knows-that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn’t, and her dearest friend in the world. The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay.

But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, BuzzFeed, Tordotcom, BookPage, Library Journal, Publishers WeeklyĪgnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. a tale that is both elegantly grand and earthily humble, familiar as a Grimm fairy tale yet fresh, original, and totally irresistible.”- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“If you want a fantasy with strong characters and brilliantly original variations on ancient stories, try Uprooted!”-Rick Riordan.

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