Thrilling and Captivating!

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Back and even better than the first; Vasya is older, wilder and determined to prove to the world that she can make it on her own in this entrancing follow up to The Bear and the Nightingale.

Katherine Arden has really outdone herself in this extraordinary historical fiction medieval Russian fairy tale. There is more darkness, more romance and so much more adventure in this book that from the moment I began to read, I could not put it down.

With her only options to either marry or join the nunnery, Vasya flees her small village, determined to live as a traveler and prove to herself and to the Winter King Morozko that she doesn’t need him or anyone else. On the road, she’s met with more creatures and spirits only she can see and the tale of invisible demons burning villages who take young girls leaving not a trace behind them. Perhaps the outside world is not as safe or beautiful as she once thought?

I am already salivating for book three and have concluded that there is nothing that Kathrine Arden writes that I won’t read. Bravo.