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A review by scriptedsolstice
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
5.0
This is one of my favourite books ever. The fairy-tale elements were beautiful, the magic system was so well done and whimsical, and the story held such deep meanings of hate, revenge and forgiveness.
Uprooted tells the story of a village who is protected from the wood by a wizard known as “The Dragon”. The Dragon takes a girl from the village every ten years as ‘payment’ for his services, however when the entire village think he will take a girl named Cassia, he takes her friend; Agnieszka. Agnieszka hates The Dragon and spends every second of her life wishing she could just go home. However, she discovers there are many things she can learn in the Dragon’s tower that will help her and her village.
The imagery of the wood was amazing, and I could really picture its eery nature and the creatures within. The way Novik describes things CREEPS ME OUT and I had to read the book in small sections! I was completely chilled to the bone when she describes how the wood was looking with eyes that were no longer human (nope).
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Uprooted tells the story of a village who is protected from the wood by a wizard known as “The Dragon”. The Dragon takes a girl from the village every ten years as ‘payment’ for his services, however when the entire village think he will take a girl named Cassia, he takes her friend; Agnieszka. Agnieszka hates The Dragon and spends every second of her life wishing she could just go home. However, she discovers there are many things she can learn in the Dragon’s tower that will help her and her village.
The imagery of the wood was amazing, and I could really picture its eery nature and the creatures within. The way Novik describes things CREEPS ME OUT and I had to read the book in small sections! I was completely chilled to the bone when she describes how the wood was looking with eyes that were no longer human (nope).
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