ericas_reads_ca 's review for:

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
3.0

I liked this book, but couldn't get fully into it. It's a tale taken from Russian fairytales and I enjoyed the sort of slight to religion and blindly following leading to bad things. But some of the characters I didn't really get as they maybe weren't fleshed out enough to help understand their motives. Also a bit of trouble I had with names as they are all Russian, which is fine, but then had like five different nicknames as well, so especially in the beginning it was hard to get into.