Review by quedass - The Bear and the Nightingale

quedass 's review for:

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I love this book. Felt like reading a fairytale at times. Katherine Arden's prose is amazing, lyrical and almost poetic at times and always easy to read.

Lines like this just hit:

I am told how I will live, and I am told how I must die. I must be a man’s servant and a mare for his pleasure, or I must hide myself behind walls and surrender my flesh to a cold, silent god. I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing. I would rather die tomorrow in the forest than live a hundred years of the life appointed me.

Speaks for itself I think.

I'm not usually into fantasy but this book made me contemplate this stance entirely, I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the trilogy.

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