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A review by mj_reads
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
5.0
“All those stories must have ended this same way, with someone tired going home from a field full of death, but no one ever sang that part.”
Uprooted is a book that starts off so strong and although it goes in a direction very different from what I was expecting, it continues to get better and better.
At the start of our story we have some serious Beauty and the Beast vibes (literally a wolf attack and magical roses okay), but as the story progresses it definitely becomes its own. The plot develops and takes turns that I honestly would have never anticipated based on the first few chapters of the book. I don’t want to get into many details because I think that for me, not knowing anything about this book before I read it really helped me to not be disappointed in the story. I think that if you go into this book expecting something specific, like a love story, a fairytale, or even just a magic fueled fantasy read, you will be let down. While Uprooted does have some of the best parts of all of those mentioned categories in its pages, it is a lot more than any one of them. So expecting just one might leave you feeling less than satisfied at the end of the novel. But maybe not because I really felt like it delivers…that’s just my theory on why people have such hit or miss experiences with it. *shrugs*
Okay going with this reviews theme of keeping it vague... let me just say that this book was so magical. The author has a few scenes earlier in the book where one of the characters is reading spells, and the character describes how spells feel. Then throughout this book as spells are used, I genuinely felt the way that the character describes. Every single time a spell was cast I felt like I understood something about the magic in this story, it was so incredible, I’m not sure I’ve ever had an experience like that before while reading. I’m definitely not doing it any justice in my description, but it was amazing. Other experiences while reading this include not being able to think about anything other than this story, literally dreamt about it and could not stop thinking about it while I was at work. I was also completely blown away by the backstories as they were revealed and explained (about the world itself and the Dragon), and just the entire ending of this book really had me feeling some type of way. And not even feeling some type of way because of some romance or some characters, it was literally just my reaction to the magic and the world that had me so emotional! So let me say it just one more time, this book is SO MAGICAL.
Honestly my only issue with this story was that the names and some of the spells were difficult for me to pronounce but as I was drawn deeper and deeper into the story I stopped caring. I loved this book, I’m mad that I let so many negative reviews keep me away for so long, I’m ready to read this again. Magic. Magic. Magic!!! This story was great okay bye.
Uprooted is a book that starts off so strong and although it goes in a direction very different from what I was expecting, it continues to get better and better.
At the start of our story we have some serious Beauty and the Beast vibes (literally a wolf attack and magical roses okay), but as the story progresses it definitely becomes its own. The plot develops and takes turns that I honestly would have never anticipated based on the first few chapters of the book. I don’t want to get into many details because I think that for me, not knowing anything about this book before I read it really helped me to not be disappointed in the story. I think that if you go into this book expecting something specific, like a love story, a fairytale, or even just a magic fueled fantasy read, you will be let down. While Uprooted does have some of the best parts of all of those mentioned categories in its pages, it is a lot more than any one of them. So expecting just one might leave you feeling less than satisfied at the end of the novel. But maybe not because I really felt like it delivers…that’s just my theory on why people have such hit or miss experiences with it. *shrugs*
Okay going with this reviews theme of keeping it vague... let me just say that this book was so magical. The author has a few scenes earlier in the book where one of the characters is reading spells, and the character describes how spells feel. Then throughout this book as spells are used, I genuinely felt the way that the character describes. Every single time a spell was cast I felt like I understood something about the magic in this story, it was so incredible, I’m not sure I’ve ever had an experience like that before while reading. I’m definitely not doing it any justice in my description, but it was amazing. Other experiences while reading this include not being able to think about anything other than this story, literally dreamt about it and could not stop thinking about it while I was at work. I was also completely blown away by the backstories as they were revealed and explained (about the world itself and the Dragon), and just the entire ending of this book really had me feeling some type of way. And not even feeling some type of way because of some romance or some characters, it was literally just my reaction to the magic and the world that had me so emotional! So let me say it just one more time, this book is SO MAGICAL.
Honestly my only issue with this story was that the names and some of the spells were difficult for me to pronounce but as I was drawn deeper and deeper into the story I stopped caring. I loved this book, I’m mad that I let so many negative reviews keep me away for so long, I’m ready to read this again. Magic. Magic. Magic!!! This story was great okay bye.