Review: Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Uprooted

By Naomi Novik

My Rating: 2 Stars

Hardcover, 435 pages

Published May 19th

 

      Summary From Goodreads:

“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. 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. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.”

Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life.

Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. 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.

But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose.

 

 

My Review:

 

I read this whole entire book for a reading challenge at my workplace, but I honestly couldn't tell you any IMPORTANT details about it. It's not that it was a bad book, because it had a lot of interesting plot points and potential.

It just wasn't my favorite. 

I felt like when I started reading it, I was dumped into the middle and I should have had all this background information from a previous book, and it was a very slow moving story.

  

 Don't let my opinions stop you from reading it though, give it a read!