Sofia
24 jan. 2022
Om jag vill läsa tantsnusk kan jag köpa en Harlekinbok.
3.5
Fantasy & SciFi
In the vein of Naomi Novik’s New York Times bestseller Spinning Silver and Katherine Arden’s national bestseller 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.
© 2021 HarperAudio (Ljudbok): 9780062973153
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 8 juni 2021
3.5
Fantasy & SciFi
In the vein of Naomi Novik’s New York Times bestseller Spinning Silver and Katherine Arden’s national bestseller 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.
© 2021 HarperAudio (Ljudbok): 9780062973153
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 8 juni 2021
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Sofia
24 jan. 2022
Om jag vill läsa tantsnusk kan jag köpa en Harlekinbok.
Melinda
17 juli 2022
A good quite action filled book with many adventures packed i to one.The thing I most appreciated was getting to know a bit of folktale and mythology through this story.A minus for me (although needed for the story and well written) was animals being harmed. It was as an important symbol of the oppressive state and not meant as a “good” thing of course, such just touches too deep for me if it comes unprepared, so if you too share that issue now you know.Otherwise a very capturing book, full of interesting details and many layers!
Lien
20 juni 2022
Het klonk veelbelovend, maar hing aan elkaar van de standaard verhaallijnen. De protagoniste heeft de leercurve van een steen.
Blood
19 mars 2022
Good reader, badly written story.
Mar
14 dec. 2022
Lo quería amar. Pero no soportó
Kora
1 juni 2022
4,7
Jooke
2 sep. 2021
Loved all the stories, myths, fairytales and tradition. Only wished I could connect more with Evoké
Lina
21 nov. 2022
Trevlig läsning
Kat
22 dec. 2022
Thrilling!
Adriana
30 juni 2022
Una novela fantástica para un público adulto. Me recordó, en efecto, a Naomi Novik y a Katherine Arden. Excelente para quienes buscan este tipo de literatura.
Helhetsbetyg baserat på 120 betyg
Bladvändare
Romantisk
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Sofia
24 jan. 2022
Om jag vill läsa tantsnusk kan jag köpa en Harlekinbok.
Melinda
17 juli 2022
A good quite action filled book with many adventures packed i to one.The thing I most appreciated was getting to know a bit of folktale and mythology through this story.A minus for me (although needed for the story and well written) was animals being harmed. It was as an important symbol of the oppressive state and not meant as a “good” thing of course, such just touches too deep for me if it comes unprepared, so if you too share that issue now you know.Otherwise a very capturing book, full of interesting details and many layers!
Lien
20 juni 2022
Het klonk veelbelovend, maar hing aan elkaar van de standaard verhaallijnen. De protagoniste heeft de leercurve van een steen.
Blood
19 mars 2022
Good reader, badly written story.
Mar
14 dec. 2022
Lo quería amar. Pero no soportó
Kora
1 juni 2022
4,7
Jooke
2 sep. 2021
Loved all the stories, myths, fairytales and tradition. Only wished I could connect more with Evoké
Lina
21 nov. 2022
Trevlig läsning
Kat
22 dec. 2022
Thrilling!
Adriana
30 juni 2022
Una novela fantástica para un público adulto. Me recordó, en efecto, a Naomi Novik y a Katherine Arden. Excelente para quienes buscan este tipo de literatura.
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