Discussion posts are live, see below. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Deerskin by Robin McKinley Sea Witch by Sarah Henning Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson Book Club Details Continuing our feel-good goals with #CannonBookClub in 2021 we’ve landed on Fairy Tales and Adaptations as our theme for our September meeting. With that in mind our Book Club team has decided on a shortlist of four books to choose from, highlighting different genres and original tales. September 17-18, 2021 Book Choices […]
The woods are lovely dark and deep
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
In a dark medieval Russian forest, the tomboy daughter of the local chief, Vasya, just wants to continue with her wild and pagan ways- running through the woods, riding horses, communing with the minor domestic and farmyard gods. These ways put Vasya at odds with her stepmother as well as the Church, personified by the local priest. The stepmother and the priest push Vasya’s father to marry her off, which bodes ill for the village as a whole- the bonds that keep evil forces at […]
“Now I am beyond prophecy.”
The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
Everyone on this site who recommended the Winternight Trilogy: thank youuuuuuu! I devoured these books. Like, ignore dinner, stay up til 3 am, read all lunch break. Try to read slowly to savor, but can’t because it just is so good. Continue to recommend to everyone who would listen. I think it’s so rare to find a trilogy that reads so well, for so long. I can’t wait to read it again! So, back up, these are the second and third book of Katherine Arden’s […]
Magic and War Collide
The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
I loved the first novel in this trilogy because for me it was the perfect mix of fairy tale magic with some real life politics mixed in. By focusing on the story of a young girl in her village, the novel had a nice intimate setting even as it dealt with a figurative battle between good and evil, the old ways and the new. The greater politics opened up the potential for a broader scale in the rest of the trilogy, and I think that […]
Meh, ok, I don’t care anymore. Mostly.
The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
This was the right ending to the story, but I started disliking Vasya in the previous story and she does not redeem herself much. She still refuses to consider how other people might be affected by her actions, but at least she spends most of her time in the folkloric realm and not the real world. Vasya’s “reveals” were a little cliche, as was what happens when she goes to free Morozko. Saw that coming two books ago. For the reveals she discovers about herself […]
In which I rant about the heroine
The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
I was about the day I finished The Girl in the Tower-years old when I realized two things: one, this series is YA darkish fantasy romance; and two, I don’t especially care for YA darkish fantasy romance. The problem is that there are a few characters I do want to see what happens to and the setting is interesting, with its mix of Russian folklore and history. I also do like the conflict from the first novel, not so much present here, between the old […]
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