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Das dunkle Herz des Waldes by Naomi Novik

31 reviews

imbored_soillread's review against another edition

Was wonderfully written, I just didn’t do my research and I don’t like any spice in my books at all. Dnfed at first sign of it. Also I didn’t love the age gap, and that the mc was 17 while the love interest is an immortal old man. Not for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual assault

Moderate: Gore, Rape, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

reisrambles's review against another edition

2.25

An interesting idea ruined by SA that isn’t properly addressed and uncomfortably told in first person perspective. I wanted to love this book. I was pleased that some things were addressed like the messiness, but that still doesn’t explain her using the dress she is wearing to clean sick off the floor. Or why she finds a note left by a former resident in chapter one and doesn’t think to look for others. It was a struggle to watch her, hard to like the wizard, and most characters you meet are thoroughly unlikable. 

I have so many thoughts that I’m just not even sure how to explain. None of the reviews I’d read back when I bought this book several years ago had trigger warnings or I’d probably never had bought or read this. 

Also my brain still is trying to figure out what her laughter spilling into his mouth making stutters of kisses would look like. But it’s kind of cursed sounding. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Vomit, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, War, and Sexual harassment

emeraldrina's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Ugh I love Agnieszka so much - the little ways she vexed the Dragon had me laughing out loud. I read this book in about a day and a half because I just could not stop reading. It’s so action packed you almost don’t get a moment to breathe, but somehow it doesn’t feel like it’s too much or too fast. The conflict and the antagonist are delightfully complicated; every time you think Agnieszka is doing the right thing, somehow it gets turned on its head and becomes disastrous. As always, Novik’s prose is so beautiful and vivid that I could picture every monstrosity and panorama in glorious detail.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Blood, and Death

Minor: Sexual assault, Vomit, and Miscarriage

walkie_check's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Grief, Violence, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Grief, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, War, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Xenophobia, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Minor: Infidelity, Classism, Forced institutionalization, Child abuse, Alcohol, Cancer, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, and Rape

eule's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

It’s my comfort book. I’ve read it three times in the last years and it never gets old. It may be nothing special for others but for me it’s a five star read. I love the magic in this book and the descriptions of the forest. Furthermore, I adore the relationship Agnieszka has with the forest and, of course, the relationship to the dragon. She truly is one of the most badass witch of the forest (yet, she is not like other girls, at some time at least…). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, War, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, and Sexual content

seadeepy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Murder, Confinement, Classism, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, and Body horror

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual content

Minor: Vomit

bel_kate's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Vomit

fraise's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, War, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Death of parent

Minor: Miscarriage and Vomit

protagonist has a sexual relationship with her much older mentor (technically they're both immortal, but she's only lived a normal lifespan for a young woman)

esme_may's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I adored this! It's written absolutely beautifully with gorgeous imagery, and the ending is maybe my favourite I've read this year. I'd read more by Naomi Novik in a heartbeat

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and War

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Medical content, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Confinement, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Minor: Genocide, Grief, Alcohol, Racism, Torture, Xenophobia, and Vomit

bookhoarderbea's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, War, Gore, Blood, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Vomit, Sexual assault, and Sexual content