Uprooted
A wizard takes one village girl every ten years, and this time takes the wrong one. Built on Polish folklore rather than the usual fae tradition, with a genuinely frightening forest and a magic system that feels like cooking. On the House's scale it rates 2 for spice (warm), 3 for how much of the book is the romance, and 5 for craft. ACOTAR readers who want the same premise handled by a much stronger prose stylist.
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How it rates
- Author
- Naomi Novik
- Series
- Standalone — nothing to wait for
- Spice
- Spice 2 out of 5, Warm2/5 · Warm
- Romance
- 3/5
- Plot
- 5/5
- Worldbuilding
- 5/5
- Darkness
- 4/5
- Writing craft
- 5/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- first person
- Ending
- Happy ever after
- Setting
- A valley beside the Wood, in a folkloric Poland
- Audience
- Adult
- Pages
- 438
On the spice rating One explicit scene, brief and late. The rest is antagonism and proximity. How the scale works.
Content warnings body horror, violence, war.
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