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    Audiobook17 hours

    Uprooted

    Written by Naomi Novik

    Narrated by Julia Emelin

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL • 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.

    HUGO AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR | BuzzFeed | Tor.com | BookPage | Library Journal | Publishers Weekly

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 19, 2015
    ISBN9780553410082
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    Naomi Novik

    Naomi Novik is the acclaimed author of the Temeraire series and standalone fairytale fantasy Uprooted. She has been nominated for the Hugo Award and has won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, as well as the Locus Award for Best New Writer and the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. She is also the author of the graphic novel Will Supervillains Be on the Final? Fascinated with both history and legends, Novik is a first-generation American raised on Polish fairy tales and stories of Baba Yaga. Her own adventures include pillaging degrees in English literature and computer science from various ivory towers, designing computer games, and helping to build the Archive of Our Own for fanfiction and other fanworks. Novik is a co-founder of the Organization for Transformative Works. She lives in New York City with husband and Hard Case Crime founder Charles Ardai and their daughter, Evidence, surrounded by an excessive number of purring computers.

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    • 5/5
      Such a trip! I was whisked away to another world filled with magic and terror.
    • 5/5
      I was intrigued and enthralled throughout the entire book. It seemed like I was listening to a series, there was so much detail and fine writing. I absolutely loved this book. I hope there is a movie so I can see the magnificence of this world come to life.
    • 4/5
      The publisher writes up this book as a fairytale like novel and that is true in its plot and also unfortunately in its somewhat lacking of characters and relatability. The first few chapters are a good depiction of vassalage. After that the plot is interesting in a story fashion rather then as a novel. The voice and bad grammar I can only assume are on purpose.
    • 5/5
      Masterpiece. Beautiful tales sawn arfully together. Sometimes slow with details, sometimes rushing forward with action. There are unexpected twists and almost nothing is as it seems first.
    • 1/5
      Absolutely terrible narrator. How was this person paid for this job? Honestly, the writing is about the same. Don't waste your time unless you want a good laugh.
    • 5/5
      A fantastic journey that tumbles you this way and that. A roller coaster of emotions and magic worth every ride.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      I enjoyed the story, but honestly had to switch to the ebook version because the narrator grated on my nerves. I think a talented narrator should be "invisible" -- disappear into the story so your mind doesn't pause to notice the strangeness of the narration. For me, this narrator was not worth it.
    • 3/5
      Rich textured. A unique spin on a tried-and-true plot. However once you get past the perspectives and the terminology you realize that the story is simple and predictable. You can see where it's headed and you can almost guess the ending. You have a dark brooding handsome magician who is training a Young apprentice. why the protagonist is textured and has some complexity the rest of the characters are linear predictable and two dimensional. there has to be more layers in order to keep this more interesting otherwise it becomes an average read.
    • 4/5
      Very good book. Caught my interest and kept it. Loved accent of narrator. Played into role very well. Only 4 stars due to predictable tropes. Still, just enough variation to keep me enthralled.
    • 4/5
      It's an interesting story about a girl coming of age and discovering magic in a realm under siege by the woods.

      The reader has an accent but it fits the story.
    • 5/5
      Beautiful, magical, and inspiring... I loved it
    • 3/5
      The story was engaging but the narration ruined what would have been a 5 star book. The narrator was flat and stilted, pauses in the wrong places, emphasis on the wrong words, and emotionless throughout, like she was reading off disorganized notecards.

      I do not recommend this book in audio format.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The only way this audio book experience could be better is if I spent the whole of its listening next to a warm fire, with winter raging outside. It feels like the kind of tale meant to be spoke aloud, like the examples of magic displayed within the story. It was thoroughly enjoyable.

      2 people found this helpful