![]() ![]() Even when comparing her cannibalistic urges to the witch from “Hansel and Gretel”, Baba Yaga seems less bloodthirsty, and more testing. She is, to a degree I mean she has a taste for young flesh, but there is something about her that defies easy classification. All that said, to call her evil isn’t quite right. She is old, ugly, tough as nails in boots, and doesn’t take crap from anyone. If it, then she is tied with the White Queen from Narnia. I can see a sequel to this book being quite good.īaba Yaga is perhaps the most famous witch outside of Oz. It's nice to be reminded that a novel doesn't have to be perfect in any way in order to offer a very worthwhile experience. It's a book in which a heroine is struggling at home, for good reason, and goes off on a sort of epic quest. Somehow the registers seem a bit mixed and not fully formed, but that's okay, too. I am talking about the ending, which I won't go into here, but I will say, I really appreciated. ![]() The reason I am giving it four stars (oh rating systems, how ambivalent I feel when you are near) is because it does something that I rarely find other books doing. And that it values the resourcefulness of the protagonist and presents Baba Yaga as a delightfully complex character. I love, though, that it is trying to bring folklore into the present moment. This book is fairly clunky and puppy-ish (awkward? almost feels like an early draft of something) and for at least the first half, doesn't quite come together. ![]()
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