![]() ![]() Vasya loves these stories and has the unusual ability to see these spirits and converse with them, an ability inherited from her maternal grandmother. This is a place where the people tell the stories of the old fairytales, folklore and myth around the stove at night, and still worship the house spirits and the gods of nature as well as attending church. Vasaly lives out in the wilderness of northern Russia, a harsh environment where they live by the land and in the winter live on very little, to the point of starvation. ![]() The Bear and the Nightingale is the first book and introduces us to Vasay, who is at the centre of all three books with some of her family. I have been looking for other books in a similar style and came across the Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden. This has been a surprising few months for me as I have become a huge fan of the magical, fantasy genre after reading The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale. ![]() She alone can see the house spirits that guard her home, and sense the growing forces of dark magic in the woods. In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, an elderly servant tells stories of sorcery, folklore and the Winter King to the children of the family, tales of old magic frowned upon by the church.īut for the young, wild Vasya these are far more than just stories. ![]()
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