Katherine Arden
Hardcover | Pages: 363 pages Rating: 4.37 | 46074 Users | 5898 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Girl in the Tower (Winternight Trilogy #2) |
| Author | : | Katherine Arden |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 363 pages |
| Published | : | December 5th 2017 by Del Rey |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Young Adult. Fairy Tales. Cultural. Russia |
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The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home—but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege. Orphaned and cast out as a witch by her village, Vasya’s options are few: resign herself to life in a convent, or allow her older sister to make her a match with a Moscovite prince. Both doom her to life in a tower, cut off from the vast world she longs to explore. So instead she chooses adventure, disguising herself as a boy and riding her horse into the woods. When a battle with some bandits who have been terrorizing the countryside earns her the admiration of the Grand Prince of Moscow, she must carefully guard the secret of her gender to remain in his good graces—even as she realizes his kingdom is under threat from mysterious forces only she will be able to stop.Itemize Books To The Girl in the Tower (Winternight Trilogy #2)
| Original Title: | The Girl in the Tower |
| ISBN: | 1101885963 (ISBN13: 9781101885963) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Winternight Trilogy #2 |
| Setting: | Russia |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy (2018) |
Rating Out Of Books The Girl in the Tower (Winternight Trilogy #2)
Ratings: 4.37 From 46074 Users | 5898 ReviewsColumn Out Of Books The Girl in the Tower (Winternight Trilogy #2)
4.5 stars. Has the world run dry of warriors?' She asked...'There were no heroes,' said Vasya between her teeth. 'There was only me. Vasya lives in a time where women were not given many choices. A woman married. Or she became a nun. Or she died. That was what being a woman meant. Wanting neither of the three, Vasya chooses to remake herself to create her own, fourth option. She takes up the mantle of a warrior and sets off to do something about her dismal country. What she didn't countMorozko is my book husband. That is all.Ohh, this beautiful book. It was everything I hoped for and more after falling in love with The Bear and the Nightingale earlier this year. It brings into sharp focus many things only hinted at in BEAR, and is packed with action, intrigue, and yes, even some R O M A N C E (I can't spoil the surprise but I must say, I'm a happy little toaster strudel). Now excuse me while I go into a cozy book coma for a while. Thank you to the publisher for providing a
I am unabashedly in love with this book.The Girl in The Tower had me hooked, line and sinker. My heart filled with the remembered joy of giving yourself up to a book, the equivalent of a whispered oh, husky and astonished and awakened. The first book prodded at the edges of my mind, but it was this one that climbed inside, turned several circles, and settled in with a grunt. Hours slipped by unseen, as though a shimmering veil of reverie has been drawn over me. I didnt even register the ending
We return to the entrancing and magical world of Vasya in medieval Russia. A grief stricken Vasya mourns the loss of Dunya and her father, wanders the icy forests, unable to return to her family home of Lesnaya Zemlya, branded a witch by the locals, threatened with marriage and the convent, choices that are anathema to her. She is naive to the ways of the world, men, political intrigue, ghosts, the fire bird, sorcerers, Moscow and more but she is hungry to see and know more than the small corner
I dont know what to say other than Vasya has my heart.
All the stars! Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature:Medieval MoscowThe Girl in the Tower (2017), a medieval Russian fantasy, continues the story of Vasilisa (Vasya), a young woman whose story began in Katherine Ardens debut novel The Bear and the Nightingale, one of my favorite fantasies from early 2017. That makes it a hard act to follow, but theres no sophomore slump here. The Girl in the Tower is an even stronger novel, more sure-footed and compelling in its telling, and with more
I adore the world Katherine Arden has created here. The things I loved, loved, loved about the first part of this series are still all here:- brilliant characters with believable interactions,- sibling relationships that are complicated and true,- an atmosphere so all-encompassing that it makes you forget your own surroundings,- wonderfully immersive descriptions,- a surprising and wonderful way to construct sentences that just sound like nobody else (in the best possible way) while still
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