Loved itAnd finally, the book that I credit with kind of setting this all off for me in books at least is Uprooted by Naomi Novik. ... So incredible. I love it.
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Uprooted (2015)
Others: Mostly positive "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 use every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we're grateful, but not that grateful."
- ISBN:
- 9781035076208
- Length:
- 438 pages
Genres: fantasy, science fiction, romance
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Not a fanI am actually part of the problem because I did DNF this myself. Like I think maybe like 60% I was genuinely like on my way. It was not an early DNF for me as well.
Loved itit has everything I love a perfect example of what is now my favorite genre and that is fairy tesque magical fantasies because of that I'm a little bit afraid that this is one of those cases where it was just the first time I ever read a fairy tales atmospheric adult fantasy and therefore I loved it
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