The Bear and the Nightingale 🌟🌟🌟🌟.5 In olden Russia where boys could be anything from warrior to village lord to priest and girls could only choose between being a housewife or being a nun, where winter lasts most of the year, gods walk the earth among us and humans refer to each other in their full given names, Vasilisa Petrovna - a girl too ugly for marriage and too wild to be tamed - must save her village from the rising evil the story will introduce in its opening chapter -- making you crave for it -- which it will mention every fifty pages or so but never be fully elaborate until the last hundred pages, driving you mad with intrigue and curiosity. After Vasilisa's mother dies, his father heads to Moscow (where he leaves half of the cast introduced thus far) and brings home a new wife, Anna Ivanovna, who forbids her family from honoring the household spirits, effectively ruining everyone's life as crops begin to fail, evil creatures of the forest creep nearer, and misfortune stalks the village. Anna team up with Father Konstantin "GIVE YOURSELF UNTO JAYSUS" Nikonovich -- part-time painter, part-time man of God, occasional pedophile, a priest exiled to their remote village with the most Christian mission ever: impose Christianity on everyone save their souls -- to save everyone's soul and practically exorcise Vasilisa. As danger circles, Vasilisa must defy everyone's attempt to make a girl out of her, endure the hatred of the entire village for not being like other girls, and dodge every attempt by her stepmother to either marry her to the most abusive men or send her to a convent, suffer parental abuse, all while keeping the spirits and her village alive. So step into this lyrical retelling of Vasilisa the Beautiful, so atmospheric you'll be swept off to a freezing winter night in Russia, with plot so intriguing but slow moving you'd be begging for the author to stop dangling hints in front of your face and just get on with the revelation. #thebearandthenightingale #katherinearden #bookreviewer #bookreview bookstagramph #bookstagrammerph #bookstagram #bibliophile #bookblogger #bookblog #booksofinstagram #bookworm #booklover #booklove #booktography https://www.instagram.com/p/CDgceXrAViJ/?igshid=bxeci1g028s8
