
The Wolf and the Woodsman
A Novel
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Saskia Maarleveld
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Ava Reid
In the vein of Naomi Novik’s New York Times best seller Spinning Silver and Katherine Arden’s national best seller The Bear and the Nightingale, this unforgettable debut - inspired by Hungarian history and Jewish mythology - follows a young pagan woman with hidden powers and a one-eyed captain of the Woodsmen as they form an unlikely alliance to thwart a tyrant.
In her forest-veiled pagan village, Évike is the only woman without power, making her an outcast clearly abandoned by the gods. The villagers blame her corrupted bloodline - her father was a Yehuli man, one of the much-loathed servants of the fanatical king. When soldiers arrive from the Holy Order of Woodsmen to claim a pagan girl for the king’s blood sacrifice, Évike is betrayed by her fellow villagers and surrendered.
But when monsters attack the Woodsmen and their captive en route, slaughtering everyone but Évike and the cold, one-eyed captain, they have no choice but to rely on each other. Except he’s no ordinary Woodsman - he’s the disgraced prince, Gáspár Bárány, whose father needs pagan magic to consolidate his power. Gáspár fears that his cruelly zealous brother plans to seize the throne and instigate a violent reign that would damn the pagans and the Yehuli alike. As the son of a reviled foreign queen, Gáspár understands what it’s like to be an outcast, and he and Évike make a tenuous pact to stop his brother.
As their mission takes them from the bitter northern tundra to the smog-choked capital, their mutual loathing slowly turns to affection, bound by a shared history of alienation and oppression. However, trust can easily turn to betrayal, and as Évike reconnects with her estranged father and discovers her own hidden magic, she and Gáspár need to decide whose side they’re on, and what they’re willing to give up for a nation that never cared for them at all.
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Nice folklore, bland character
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Loved the folk lore
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meh
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Hard to get through it
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Interesting read
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the book was amazing as well. I can't wait to read more from this author!!!
amazing!!!
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Struggled to finish but glad I did.
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Great world building
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The story was so uneventful and unfulfilling. It's like nothing exciting happened. There were events and things were done in reaction to those events, but overall nothing blew my mind and things just kind of went along.
The protagonist was so... boring. She just "went along" with events. She wasn't really proactive. She didn't go out of her way to do anything or initiate anything. Anything that she did do was because the story required her to do it in order to make it a story and fill her role as protagonist. I found her character weak and pathetic, to be quite honest.
The story kept me interested enough to finish it, but I don't think I'm ever going to suggest this book to anyone.
And as a side note, I hated the ending. It just reiterated "going along" with the story.
In some books, the narrator makes or breaks the story. Well... this narrator went along. She wasn't bad just perfect for this bland story.
Uneventful and Unfulfilling
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There were also a lot of things that made it feel YA even though I expected a more mature plot line/approach to the challenges they faced
But I would still recommend I gave 4 stars but it’s more a 3.5 for me
Good book but not for me
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