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emmieb 's review for:
The Bear and the Nightingale
by Katherine Arden
If you love traditional fairy tales you will love this. Somehow it captures the rhythm of that tradition immediately. I loved all the Russian mythology and it's incredibly vivid with a very strong sense of place. The characters immediately come to life and like all good fairy tales is multilayered with the tension around tradition/religion/society/politics. I love how all the traditional myths from lots of countries overlap and I want to read more about Russian mythology now. I had that lovely satisfied feeling when I finished - a good story but with a lot lingering in my mind.