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Uprooted

  • 438 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 2015
  • 7 editions

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1 About this book

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 use every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we're grateful, but not that grateful.

Good for readers who want: fantasy, science fiction, and friendship.

  • Friendship
  • Fantasy
  • Female friendship
  • Identity (Psychology)
  • Magic
  • Courage
  • Survival
  • Science fiction

2 About Naomi Novik

Born 1973

Naomi Novik is an American author of speculative fiction. She is known for her Temeraire series (2006–2016), an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars involving dragons; and her Scholomance trilogy (2020–2022). Her standalone fantasy novels Uprooted (2015) and Spinning Silver (2018) were inspired by Polish folklore and the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale respectively.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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