My biggest pet peeves is that Agnieszka suffers a huge case of Special Snowflake Syndrome. The characters are none I can connect with and none I could care less about. None experienced huge break throughs and if they did, it did not show in the book. Nearly all of them are as flat as a cardboard cutout. But by the time I reached past 5 - 8% I had already lose my interest and started to wish that I had never, ever bothered with this. I thought this will be the next best thing to add into my Favourites shelf.

The beginning of the story started out really nicely in a whimsical fairytale sort of way. It lead me in to having such sky high expectations only later that I have those expectations thrown back into my fucking face. The book covers scream 'BUY ME NOW OR REGRET IT FOR ALL ETERNITY' and the synopsis is so vague to the point of mystery. Yes, sweet and yet they're EMPTY promises. Uprooted is one of those books with a pretty outside look full of sweet promises. I'll probably be damned for saying this but screw sugar-coating. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose. And there is no way to save her.īut Agnieszka fears the wrong things. 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. The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. 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. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.”Īgnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. 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. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon.

We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. “Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley.

Uprooted novik