Review by helliepad - Uprooted

helliepad 's review for:

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

It has everything I wanted to read for the past few months– fairytale elements, evil cop-killing crop-poisoning forest, real dirty grungy heroines, homoerotic bestfriendship between two women that isn't fraught due to another guy, mothers both young and old, wizards in towers, wizards who fuck, wizards who don't fuck but do fuck around, wizards who found out, princes who are stupidly arrogant

and dead

, princes who are noble

and dead

, multiple nuanced queens, magic rivers that end nowhere, baba yaga's footnotes, rotten fruit you can't help but eat,

extra large praying mantises

, the first forays into video calling technology, the indescribable power of people never leaving their homes despite danger and the threat to life, and

rehabilitation after great environmental disasters.

10/10 would recommend and read other of Naomi Novik's works honestly

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