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Title: The Girl in the TowerAuthor: Katherine Arden
Published: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 346
Rating: 4/5
This is the second book in the Winternight trilogy. You can find my review of the first book in the trilogy here.
Summary:
Set in medieval Russia, a young girl with perculiar gifts of seeing creatures no one else sees, finds herself unable and unwilling to return to her small home town and sets off into the forest, ending up intertwined with the court of the Grand Prince of Moscow as they fight off bandits laying waste to the surrounding land.
Review:
How wonderful it was to return to this world once more!
I always feel a slight twinge of apprehension when reading sequels to books I've loved but luckily, this wasn't disappointing in the slightest. It has everything I loved about the first book; winter, magic, an amazing setting and interesting characters. I felt like I especially loved the main character in this one, as I feel like we get to see her grow quite a lot throughout the story.
The atmosphere is excellent, the setting is invoked beautifully and it's a story that's easy to get completely lost in. It's enjoyable and exciting, a little dark sometimes but filled with fairytale and folklore.
If you love The Bear and the Nightingale, you're going to love this one too. So far this trilogy has really impressed me and it's probably some of my favorite books I've ever read in this genre, so I'd highly recommend them if you haven't read them yet. 
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