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  • The Wolf and the Woodsman

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  • Auteur(s): Ava Reid
  • Narrateur(s): Saskia Maarleveld
  • Durée: 13 h et 10 min
  • 3,8 out of 5 stars (16 évaluations)

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The Wolf and the Woodsman

Auteur(s): Ava Reid
Narrateur(s): Saskia Maarleveld
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In the vein of Naomi Novik’s New York Times best seller Spinning Silver and Katherine Arden’s national best seller The Bear and the Nightingale, this unforgettable debut - inspired by Hungarian history and Jewish mythology - follows a young pagan woman with hidden powers and a one-eyed captain of the Woodsmen as they form an unlikely alliance to thwart a tyrant.

In her forest-veiled pagan village, Évike is the only woman without power, making her an outcast clearly abandoned by the gods. The villagers blame her corrupted bloodline - her father was a Yehuli man, one of the much-loathed servants of the fanatical king. When soldiers arrive from the Holy Order of Woodsmen to claim a pagan girl for the king’s blood sacrifice, Évike is betrayed by her fellow villagers and surrendered.

But when monsters attack the Woodsmen and their captive en route, slaughtering everyone but Évike and the cold, one-eyed captain, they have no choice but to rely on each other. Except he’s no ordinary Woodsman - he’s the disgraced prince, Gáspár Bárány, whose father needs pagan magic to consolidate his power. Gáspár 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, Gáspár understands what it’s like to be an outcast, and he and Évike 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 Évike reconnects with her estranged father and discovers her own hidden magic, she and Gáspár need to decide whose side they’re on, and what they’re willing to give up for a nation that never cared for them at all.

©2021 Ava Reid (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

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A great beginning and end, with a rotten center

The first half of this I loved. It's an enemies to lovers tale with great pacing and a natural progression where the two main characters learn to care about one another as people and question the ingrained racism they were raised on.

And then... the story shifts into a tale of religious persecution and religion being strongly tied into community and personal identity and how that conflicts when your parents don't share the same religion. It really read, to me at least, about how finding Judaism (not ever called that in the book but its easy to parse out) finally provided Evike with acceptance. But not before she shows her complete lack of emotional maturity and repeatedly has lengthy outbursts where she verbally abuses her love interest. It's her intent to be cruel and cause him hurt and it certainly comes across.

Gaspard, however, is wonderfully written; a realistic portrayal of questioning and unlearning prejudice. He's clever, letting people ubderestimate him and waiting for opportunities. Which Evike constantly berates him for, preferring to launch herself and royal guards and getting imprisoned and in need of rescuing.

With the exception of Gaspard everyone is white. With the introduction of every new character you will undoubtedly hear the descriptor "pale". We get it, POC apparently don't exist in this world.

Gaspard is by far the best part of the book along with the narrator, but you unfortunately don't see much of him for a good chunk of the story. It picks up again in the last 3 hours but by then I couldn't care less about Evike or her village.

Despite all this if you still decide to give it a try know that there's a lot of religious glorification of self-mutilation. In case thats something that makes you uncomfortable.

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  • 2021-12-20

Hard to get through it

I bailed at chapter 15. The story is well-written and the narrator is excellent. My problem was listening to the mean-spirited heroine of the tale. A backstory is laid out to accommodate the anger, viciousness and meanness, bit it is still difficult to listen to chapter after chapter. Add the incessant whinging and Ian sorry to have spent time with the unlikable character.

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  • 2022-01-22

Must Read!!

I loves the storyline, the performance of the narrator, and everything in between. I couldn’t put it down, then hated that it ended. Definitely not what I expected in the best way. If you like adventure, tension, and an individual’s journey to understanding themselves. This is a must read! I think even if this is outside the genre you usually read, read this anyway. You will not be disappointed.

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  • Jessica Graff
  • 2022-01-06

Wow!!!

I loved this, the story is beautiful, the narrator is excellent. I will read/listen to this one again and again. I honestly didn't want it to end. I want to stay in this world.

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  • Malori
  • 2021-09-01

Great world building

My favorite part of this book was the lore. Everything was so interesting and surprising.

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  • Ashley
  • 2021-07-02

meh

The character development leaves something to be desired. It was a love story with weird magic and a lot of easily defeated monsters, very lackluster heros. I finished it but wouldn't recommend.

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  • MissMack
  • 2023-09-23

Beautiful, dark folklore.

Just to get this out of the way, this book might not be for everyone. Some reads are like a simply delicious cupcake that you’ve been craving. Ava Reid’s stories are not cupcakes. They’re like sitting down with another culture’s food that is different than you’re used to. The flavors are complicated and different from you’re usual fare. And you’ll either end up wondering how you’ve been missing out on this kind of food all your life. Or you’ll be like, “Meh. Not for me.”

I do hope you’ll give this story or author a chance thought. She has a very poetic writing style. And it actually does kind of read like it’s being told by an old storyteller. It reads like folklore. Which is cool to me. If that’s not usually what you like, this might not be your favorite read.

Anyways, loved it.

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  • 2023-07-29

I loved this story

For me, the most frustrating thing was that the story was happening around the heroine, but there's definitely a point where she begins to exercise more agency and play a more active roll in what's going on.
Aside from that, I loved just about everything. In particular, I loved how the characters are so human. There is so much messy-ness in how the characters interact with each other and the decisions that they make.
Something to point out as something that I personally enjoyed but not everyone will, is that the format of the story itself is definitely not western. Or, not strictly western. I love that the story deviates from the structure and tempo that so many books stick to, but it's an aspect that is extremely subjective to personal taste.

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  • Saman
  • 2023-02-04

Interesting read

I liked the angsty slowburn quality of the story, especially closer to the end we had some chef's kiss angsty dialogue that truly gave me life, but there were many things that weren't explained quite well. Spoilers: For example I didn't understand how Evike suddenly found her father in a big city, or how the Yehuli magic actually worked. It just seemed too strange, even for a world with magic. The stuff with hunting the magic bird was also a bit off. I feel like the core of the story was really good but maybe it needed more polishing.

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  • Jillian
  • 2023-02-04

Struggled to finish but glad I did.

The narrator sounds like most others. Kind of boring in parts but beautifully written.

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  • Evey Lambert Sanchez
  • 2023-01-24

amazing!!!

I love how Saskia Maarleveld narrates all her this stories!!! she has becomes one of m6 favorite!!!
the book was amazing as well. I can't wait to read more from this author!!!

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