Uprooted by Naomi
Novik is a well-crafted, brilliantly delivered fantasy story set in the times
of fairy tales.
Every ten years in the valley next to the corrupted wood, a
girl is picked to serve the magician who lives in the tower. Agnieszka is sure
that her friend Kasia will be picked. He always chooses the pretties girl. Even
the girls from the other villages couldn’t compete with Kasia. She has been
training to serve the magician, known as the Dragon.
No one knows how the girl will serve the dragon. But at the
end of each ten years, those girls come home and almost immediately move away.
Kasia and Agnieszka have promised that they will still be best friends after
they are separated for a decade.
When all the girls of the village are lined up, the dragon
appears. But he does not pick Kasia. He chooses Agnieszka. And they are off to
the tower before the shock can wear off. He always has to pick a girl with
magic if one presents herself. Of course, Agnieszka has no idea she has magic…
Nor does she know how to cook or do any other domestic things that Kasia has
been trained for.
Novik has created a great story. It has all of the elements
of a great fairy tale. This is a must read!
Novik, Naomi. (2015). Uprooted.
New York: Del Rey.
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