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A review by kylielovesbooks
Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
4.0
Thank you to Netgalley for an audiobook copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!
This was such a wonderful sequel that I enjoyed just as much as the first one. The first one was about the mysterious dragon and the second one is about the mysterious nightingale.
Although the book started off a little slow, I loved how the unresolved problem of Anya's dad gone in the war in the first book was the main problem in this book. We find out that Anya's dad really shouldn't have gone and Anya wants to find him and bring him home. Ivan and the dragon (whose name I will not butcher...) in human form travel with Anya to Kiev to find her father. This book was about another one of the rare magical creatures, the nightingale (who turns out to be an elf) and how the princess will send Anya's dad back home if she brings her the nightingale.
I loved the friendship between Anya, Ivan and Hokun (?) aka the dragon. They are the cutest little friend group. Ivan also has the best family where everyone is named Ivan so they call them by numbers. The new characters we got introduced to (I don't want to say too much because of spoilers) were wonderful and interesting and the new monster was so scary!
This book brought in more intense themes like PTSD (Anya keeps having flashbacks from something that happened in the first book) and LGBTQ+ characters which I thought were very well done.
A very solid sequel to a really fun, adventurous middle grade series!
This was such a wonderful sequel that I enjoyed just as much as the first one. The first one was about the mysterious dragon and the second one is about the mysterious nightingale.
Although the book started off a little slow, I loved how the unresolved problem of Anya's dad gone in the war in the first book was the main problem in this book. We find out that Anya's dad really shouldn't have gone and Anya wants to find him and bring him home. Ivan and the dragon (whose name I will not butcher...) in human form travel with Anya to Kiev to find her father. This book was about another one of the rare magical creatures, the nightingale (who turns out to be an elf) and how the princess will send Anya's dad back home if she brings her the nightingale.
I loved the friendship between Anya, Ivan and Hokun (?) aka the dragon. They are the cutest little friend group. Ivan also has the best family where everyone is named Ivan so they call them by numbers. The new characters we got introduced to (I don't want to say too much because of spoilers) were wonderful and interesting and the new monster was so scary!
This book brought in more intense themes like PTSD (Anya keeps having flashbacks from something that happened in the first book) and LGBTQ+ characters which I thought were very well done.
A very solid sequel to a really fun, adventurous middle grade series!