Uprooted by Naomi Novik publishes today in the United States!
You know what that means, right? If you live in the US, you need to make a trip to your local bookstore or visit your favorite online retailer!
The book is amazing. I’m not the only one who thinks so. Authors Robin Hobb, Brandon Sanderson, Terry Brooks, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gregory Maguire, and Kevin Hearne all agree. It’s a magical tale and I know that Naomi is unbelievably happy with it. The book already has 35 reviews on Amazon and has a rating of 4.5 stars out of 5 — not a bad way to spend a book’s birth day!
Here is more about it:
Naomi Novik, author of the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels, introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends, as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale.
“Every so often you come upon a story that seems like a lost tale of Grimm newly come to light. Uprooted is such a novel. Its narrative spell is confidently wrought and sympathetically cast. I might even call it bewitching.”—Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked and Egg & Spoon
“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.
The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. 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. And there is no way to save her.
But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose.
Like I said, Uprooted by Naomi Novik is published today! The book should be in all fine bookstores. If you are an ebook reader, click these links: KINDLE | NOOK | KOBO | IBOOKS
Happy reading! And congratulations, Naomi!!