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

[motyl.livejournal.com]

Oh, this book gave me such great happiness. It's like I finally found a successor to McKinley, only while she's still writing, but that's still great as she has never been as prolific as I'd like.