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2.5 Stars. This is book is the first book that author Naomi Novik has written outside her Temeraire series. Basically this book has been praised by authors and readers all around because of the main character. I myself was not as impressed. This is due to the fact that many author and readers in the Science Fiction and Fantasy community enjoys sees the rise of female characters in the past 5 years, but I do not, but this book has to have a female main character since this is a fairy tales. If th
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Re-read, April 4, 2021
The first time I read this I absolutely devoured it. It affected my memory of it - all I remembered was a vague feeling of empowerment and dread and some of the larger storylines. Specifics were lost to me as I read it so feverishly. This time, well, I DID THE EXACT SAME DAMN THING. I could not put it down even though I knew what was going to happen.
Some of the flaws were more glaring this time and some of the ones I remember disliking did not bug me at all. I remembered wh ...more
The first time I read this I absolutely devoured it. It affected my memory of it - all I remembered was a vague feeling of empowerment and dread and some of the larger storylines. Specifics were lost to me as I read it so feverishly. This time, well, I DID THE EXACT SAME DAMN THING. I could not put it down even though I knew what was going to happen.
Some of the flaws were more glaring this time and some of the ones I remember disliking did not bug me at all. I remembered wh ...more
I picked this up last year, and read it as a palate cleanser after a few recent urban / horror books. I found out midway through that it won the 2016 Nebula award for best book and I can attest that it was a wonderful read.
It somehow reminded me of LeGuin's Earthsea books, not in style or tone, but somehow in the way that it made me feel like I was reading the ur-fable; something distilled down to its essence - clear and simple, but evoking depths and symbolism that left me sated as if after a h ...more
It somehow reminded me of LeGuin's Earthsea books, not in style or tone, but somehow in the way that it made me feel like I was reading the ur-fable; something distilled down to its essence - clear and simple, but evoking depths and symbolism that left me sated as if after a h ...more
This book was really really compelling. Agnieszka is a great character and I found her relationship with the Dragon to be a complex and interesting one. I think my primary complaint in the book is that the events in the second half came about too quickly and were not resolved in a way that I felt was organic to the story. In some ways I wish that this book was divided into two volumes, with more time devoted the capital which I did not feel was developed to the same degree as the tower at all. T
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Naomi Novik is such a freaking powerhouse.
May 08, 2015
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