When we decided to do this, I was excited to get out of my reading comfort zone and start digging in to some other genres. This was chosen by the fantasy writers in my grad-school alumni group as the fantasy genre book they wanted everyone else (the alumni from the five other genres) to read this year. I’ve reached that point in the book, and I have a hard time wanting to pick the book up and read more. This is the point of the book at which things really start happening and when the reader is supposed to become so engrossed in the plot (because, by this point, the reader should already be completely engaged with the characters) that they have a hard time putting the book down. And the sad thing is, my interest started waning right around what we writers call the first turning point-the point at which the biggest conflict of the book is supposed to step in and throw the main plot of the book into the characters’/reader’s faces. fascinating enough to look forward to getting back to it each night.īut then.
There was still something about it I found. For the first 30-35% of the book, I found myself speeding through it, not necessarily always enjoying it, but definitely engaged by it-despite some major flaws, which I’ll get to momentarily. So I’m about 40% through with Uprooted by Naomi Novik. Part 1 of what could be a much longer review, eventually For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose. And there is no way to save her.īut Agnieszka fears the wrong things. 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. Alumni Readings in Genres (ARIG) “book club” Fantasy selection for March.
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