7/8/2023 0 Comments Naomi novik uprooted series![]() ![]() The year Agnieszka turns seventeen is a Dragon-year and she waits anxiously with the other girls her age while he makes his choice. Nobody knows what happens to the girls during their time with the Dragon, but when they return ten years later they have changed and are unwilling to go back to their old lives in the village. The villagers rely on the Dragon to defend them from the horrors that lurk in the Wood, but his protection comes at a price: every ten years the Dragon selects a seventeen-year-old girl from the village and takes her away to live with him in his tower. Our narrator, Agnieszka, lives in Dvernik, a village on the edge of a dark and sinister forest known only as the Wood. Which kingdom? Well, we aren’t really told, but it does resemble Poland in the 16th century. ![]() The Dragon in Uprooted is a wizard – the most powerful wizard in the kingdom. While Uprooted is not a Temeraire story, it does have a Dragon…but not of the winged, fire-breathing variety. After reading the first Temeraire book in March I was delighted when I unexpectedly received a review copy of Novik’s new novel. Naomi Novik is best known for her Temeraire series set during an alternate version of the Napoleonic Wars in which dragons are used in aerial combat. ![]()
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