“But you
understood, as I do, that survival is not a battle that you win only
once. You must fight it again every day. And so you take your small losses so
that you can live to fight tomorrow.”
Názov: The Wolf and the Woodsman
Autor: Ava Reid
Vydavateľstvo, rok vydania: Del Rey - Illumicrate Special Edition, 2021
Počet strán: 418
Hodnotenie GR (v čase písania recenzie): 3,72
Anotácia:
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.
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.