book: Uprooted

[psocoptera]

Uprooted is a new standalone fantasy novel by Naomi Novik, author of the Temeraire books and a lot of fantastic fanfic. It's really good! Very fairy tale without being any one exact fairy tale. I always like to do the you-might-like-this-if thing, so:

- if you love Howl's Moving Castle.
- if you liked the parts about how different wizards cast spells differently in the classic HP fic "Transfigurations".
- if you have fond memories of Snape/Hermione stories like "The Fire and the Rose" or "Roman Holiday".
- if you like things like The Dark Crystal, So You Want To Be A Wizard, The Magician's Land, or, in general, the fantasy tradition that puts forth an act of imaginative healing rather than destruction/defeat as the climax of a fantasy story (and by the way I've had terrible tip-of-the-tongue over this list for the past couple days - there's something very obvious I'm missing that I want to put on it, please share your suggestions in the comments).

To the best of my knowledge, this book is a standalone - it certainly reads like a standalone, reaching a conclusion and stuff. A fine feature in a fantasy novel in itself. ::grin::

Comments

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

Well, I absolve you of spoilers, I'd rather have the conversation (and the book rec, if I turn out not to have read it) than avoid spoilers for something I might or might not ever even be going to read/watch.

The only DeLint that ever stuck with me much was Memory & Dream, and even that I haven't reread in so long I cannot now tell you how it ends. :(

[randysmith]

Ok. The pme "denouement healing" book that I thought was Patricia Brigg's _When Demons Walk_ (I had another when I first posted, but I can't remember it now :-J).

I'd argue that _The Serpent Mage_ (Greg Bear) also counts, though there's a fight scene after the denouement healing, it's just less important to the overall arc of the book. Also maybe _A Wrinkle in Time_?