2017: #2 – The Bear and the Nightingale (Katherine Arden)
This book had some red flags for me. First, it starts out with some folklore. I really just have no patience for folklore. My eyes glaze over and I start skimming. But I hung in and kept going! Second, the genre lies somewhere between fantasy and historical fiction and magical realism, and magical realism and I have never gotten along well. Nonetheless, I stuck with
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