The two couldn't not be more different but they have so much love for one another and would do almost anything to support and help the other person. There was a great female friendship in this book with Kasia, Nieshka's dearest friend. As much as I like Agnieszka what I liked most about her is how she connected with the other characters throughout. Throughout the book she has a fantastic character arc but she always stays completely herself which I loved. She stands up for herself and the people that she loves. She's not the smartest, the prettiest, or the most popular but she's a total spitfire. First and foremost there was our main character Agnieszka. And boy was the wood a fascinating antagonist.Īnd the wood was not the only fascinating character of this book.

I absolutely love books like that, where you're fighting against something larger and more pervasive than just one person.

You see, the wood is not only the setting of this book but it's the antagonist. It's a place where nothing is the way it seems, especially the dark wood that lurks in the periphery but becomes a huge part of the story. This fact has not changed my opinion.***īut I could also perfectly visualize the settings of the book and that setting was an even better aspect of the world of Uprooted. *** I received an advance copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose. She knows-everyone knows-that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn’t, and her dearest friend in the world. The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.”Īgnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through.

“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. Synopsis: Naomi Novik, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels, introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends, as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale.

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