The Wolf and the Woodsman: The Sunday Times Bestseller

Product Description A Dark, Evocative And Unforgettable Fantasy Debut Steeped In Hungarian History And Jewish Mythology, Perfect For Fans Of Naomi Novik And Katherine Arden.______________________________________Stories DonT Have To Be True To Be Real...In Her Forest-Veiled Pagan Village, vike Is The Only Woman Without Power, Making Her An Outcast Clearly Abandoned By The Gods. When Soldiers Arrive From The Holy Order Of Woodsmen To Claim A Pagan Girl For The KingS Blood Sacrifice, vike Is Betrayed By Her Fellow Villagers And Surrendered. But When Monsters Attack The Woodsmen And Their Captive En Route, Slaughtering Everyone But vike And The Cold, One-Eyed Captain, They Have No Choice But To Rely On Each Other. Except HeS No Ordinary Woodsman - HeS The Disgraced Prince, Gspr Brny, Whose Father Needs Pagan Magic To Consolidate His Power. Gspr 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, Gspr Understands What ItS Like To Be An Outcast, And He And vike 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 vike Reconnects With Her Estranged Father And Discovers Her Own Hidden Magic, She And Gspr Need To Decide Whose Side TheyRe On, And What TheyRe Willing To Give Up For A Nation That Never Cared For Them At All.______________________________________Assured And Compelling Throughout, And The Worldbuilding Is Richly Imagined, Densely Textured, And Endlessly Delightful. Katherine Addison, Author Of The Goblin Emperor Reid Has Crafted A Story That Is Not Only Relevant For Our Times, But Has Timelessness About It That Truly Makes It Shine. The Wolf And The Woodsman Is Not A Book I Will Soon Forget. Genevieve Gornichec, Author Of The WitchS Heart Combining Religion, Magic, And Evocative Language, Ava Reid Has Created A Daring Fantasy World Full Of Imagination And Fierce Heroics Luanne G. Smith, Bestselling Author Of The Vine Witch The Wolf And The Woodsman Is One Hell Of A Ride. I CouldnT Put It Down. Greta Kelly, Author Of The Frozen Crown One Of Those Transportative, Delicious Books That Completely Engrossed Me For A Full Day. Samantha Rajaram, Author Of The Company Daughters Review Rooted In History And Myth, The Wolf And The Woodsman Is A Stunning Debut - A Powerful And Haunting Tale Of A Young WomanS Will To Live, Of Love Flowering In Defiance Of Tyranny. It Will Twine Like A Dark Forest Around Your Heart. Samantha Shannon, Sunday Times Bestselling Author Of The Priory Of The Orange Treewritten With A Timelessness Of Spirit, A Magical World That Knows No Bounds, And Characters Who Will Make Your Heart Pound And Your Eyes Well Up,The Wolf And The Woodsman Is An Intricate, Gut-Wrenching Fantasy That Will Set The Bar For Dark Historical Fantasy For Years To Come. The Book Reporta Thought-Provoking, Thrilling Magical Twist On The History Of Religion And Politics That I CouldnT Put Down . . . Stunningly Rendered S.A. Chakraborty, Bestselling Author Of The Empire Of Golda Striking Debut . . . Entertaining, Appealing, And Strikingly Imagined Tor.Comgorgeously Written And Grimly Real, The Wolf And The Woodsman Is A Bloody Fable About Two People Caught In The Jaws Of History. It Quite Literally Took My Breath Away. Alix E. Harrow, Hugo-Award Winning Author Of The Ten Thousand Doors Of Januarya Seriously Impressive Debut Novel . . . Grown-Up, Complicated, Angsty, Sexy, Dark Book - And One That I Will Be Recommending Far And Wide Cultured Vulturebeautiful And Gut Wrenching . . . ItS A Fundamentally Jewish Tale That Gripped Me From Beginning To End. A Riveting Debut That Will Keep You Up All Night, De