spiffybumble 's review for:

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
2.0

Felt like a book I’d have been assigned in high school, where I don’t fully understand what’s going on, the plot isn’t exciting enough for me to try harder to pay attention, and the whole thing is meandering with a lot of filler that doesn’t actually add to the plot and so you have to read the Wikipedia article on the book after finishing the actual book to get a better grip on what the story is.

Granted, I know people adore this book, so I’ll say that I audiobooked it and I haven’t read any Russian or Russian-inspired literature before, but this one was ultimately disappointing to me.