BOOK REVIEW : THE GIRL IN THE TOWER
Author : Katherine Arden
Genre : Magical Realism
“Vasilisa Petrovna, murderer, savior, lost child, rode away from the house in the fir-grove.”
It's the second book in the Winternight Trilogy and it picks up right where The Bear and the Nightingale left off. Vasya, potrayed as the modern women in mid fourteenth century Russia, decides to make her own rules and not give in to the society pressure. She runs away from the only home she has ever known to become a traveller, but that is not an easy task for a girl so she disguises herself as a boy.
Soon her path crosses with her brother Sasha, a monk, her sister, a princess and Dmitrii, the Grand Prince of Moscow. She hasn't met her brother and sister for ten years so it was quite a reunion also because in the first book there was barely any mention of these two characters and I really wanted to know more about them.
Vasya soon realises that her niece is more like her than she would have expected. Readers are quickly enveloped in the world of Moscow, where villages are being burned, young girls are kidnapped, new characters arrive. No one knows who is a friend or a foe. Vasya is the key of saving the villages from getting burned but ofcourse no one listens to her!
There are so many folk lores told in this book and I loved seeing them work into the whole picture. Not to forget the atmosphere the author has created throughout the book which is oh-so-amazing, you feel like you are in that moment along with the characters.
I would definitely suggest this trilogy(third book is yet to come) to anyone interested in getting lost in a book.
My Verdict- 4/5
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Genre : Magical Realism
“Vasilisa Petrovna, murderer, savior, lost child, rode away from the house in the fir-grove.”
It's the second book in the Winternight Trilogy and it picks up right where The Bear and the Nightingale left off. Vasya, potrayed as the modern women in mid fourteenth century Russia, decides to make her own rules and not give in to the society pressure. She runs away from the only home she has ever known to become a traveller, but that is not an easy task for a girl so she disguises herself as a boy.
Soon her path crosses with her brother Sasha, a monk, her sister, a princess and Dmitrii, the Grand Prince of Moscow. She hasn't met her brother and sister for ten years so it was quite a reunion also because in the first book there was barely any mention of these two characters and I really wanted to know more about them.
Vasya soon realises that her niece is more like her than she would have expected. Readers are quickly enveloped in the world of Moscow, where villages are being burned, young girls are kidnapped, new characters arrive. No one knows who is a friend or a foe. Vasya is the key of saving the villages from getting burned but ofcourse no one listens to her!
There are so many folk lores told in this book and I loved seeing them work into the whole picture. Not to forget the atmosphere the author has created throughout the book which is oh-so-amazing, you feel like you are in that moment along with the characters.
I would definitely suggest this trilogy(third book is yet to come) to anyone interested in getting lost in a book.
My Verdict- 4/5
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