I was excited and terrified to see what would happen to Vasya next. In The Girl and the Tower, we see her decide to make her own way in the world, not wanting to be locked in to the traditional female role of a wife or nun. She learns a lot and enjoys her varied […]
I loved The Girl in the Tower even more than the first book in the Winternight Trilogy. I was lucky enough to start listening to it immediately after finishing The Bear and the Nightingale. I have it from Penguin Random Audio but I ended up checking it out at the library because I liked the Overdrive […]
This dark world is not a positive place for women. They are either confined in a convent or they are servants and brood mares for men. Even young girls are beaten and tied up at the whim of men. The world-building is vivid and historical. The characters are so well-developed. It is woven from Russian […]