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A review by lbarsk
The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
5.0
WOW WOW WOW!!!! LITERALLY WOW!!!
First of all I can't believe that we got TWO BOOKS OF A TRILOGY IN ONE YEAR - the gift of bookending 2017 with books 1 and 2 of the Winternight Trilogy is one of the few good things of this trash year.
AND SECOND OF ALL JUST LIKE! THIS WAS SO GOOD! I don't know what I was expecting going into the book, but whatever expectations I did have were exceeded and kind of blown to pieces. Katherine Arden is a gifted storyteller with a knack for writing, and I appreciate how *different* each character feels, if that makes sense. In some books characters feel surface-level different but then are all sort of mirror images of each other, or caricatures of the author; in The Girl in the Tower every person (and/or domovoi) feels unique and vibrant.
Plus the mythology of this world, the fables and the storytelling of it, is just so excellently done. BRING ON THE THIRD BOOK, BRING ON MUCH MORE BY KATHERINE ARDEN
First of all I can't believe that we got TWO BOOKS OF A TRILOGY IN ONE YEAR - the gift of bookending 2017 with books 1 and 2 of the Winternight Trilogy is one of the few good things of this trash year.
AND SECOND OF ALL JUST LIKE! THIS WAS SO GOOD! I don't know what I was expecting going into the book, but whatever expectations I did have were exceeded and kind of blown to pieces. Katherine Arden is a gifted storyteller with a knack for writing, and I appreciate how *different* each character feels, if that makes sense. In some books characters feel surface-level different but then are all sort of mirror images of each other, or caricatures of the author; in The Girl in the Tower every person (and/or domovoi) feels unique and vibrant.
Plus the mythology of this world, the fables and the storytelling of it, is just so excellently done. BRING ON THE THIRD BOOK, BRING ON MUCH MORE BY KATHERINE ARDEN