Fables&Wren

The Grisha Verse #1.5: The Tailor

/ 05 STARS, LB NOVELLA THE GRISHA

The Tailor Book Cover The Tailor
The Grisha Trilogy
Leigh Bardugo
Juvenile Fiction
Tor Books
May 23, 2013
EBook
20

New scene from Shadow and Bone told from Genya's point of view.

WrensReads Review:

“I opened the black wood box, and I feed the letters to the fire, one bye one. It hurts, but I can bear it. Because I am a doll, and a servant. Because I am a pretty thing and a soldier all the same.”

This was only about seventeen pages, the edition I have anyway, and boy does it still break my heart.

Genya fought with how she betrayed her friend. She didn’t want to. But, after talking to The Darkling, she believed she was. And then him asking her to continue to let the king….

She deserves better. She got better. She is beautiful.

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The Grisha Verse #2.5: The Too-Clever Fox

/ 05 STARS, LB NOVELLA THE GRISHA

The Too-Clever Fox Book Cover The Too-Clever Fox
The Grisha Trilogy
Leigh Bardugo
Juvenile Fiction
Tor Books
June 4th 2013
EBook
32

In Ravka, just because you avoid one trap, it doesn't mean you'll escape the next. This story is a companion folk tale to Leigh Bardugo’s upcoming novel, Siege and Storm, the second book in the Grisha Trilogy.

WrensReads Review:

*Mother is hungry after giving birth and about to eat The Clever Fox.*

“A lesser creature might have despaired at such cruelty, but the fox saw vanity in his mother’s carefully tended coat and snowy paws.

‘I will tell you,; he replied. ‘When we walk in the wood, the animals will say, ‘Look at that ugly kit with his hansome mother!’ And even when you are old and gray, they will not talk of how you’ve aged, but of how such a beautiful mother gave birth to such an ugly, scrawny son.’

She thought on this and discovered she was not so hungry after all.’”

The too clever fox is not, in fact, about Nikolai Lantosov. I know, I know, it’s kind of disappointing, but the story is actually really interesting.

There is this really ugly fox, and he uses his wits to get out of really difficult situations (kind of reminds me of Tyrion Lannister from A Song of Ice and Fire, aka Game of Thrones).

There is this legendary hunter that comes to the town near the forest and he keeps killing the last animals you would think he would be able to kill. Like a blood-thirsty bear.

The fox has an idea… it’s a crazy idea… but an idea with possibilities.

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The Grisha Verse #0.1: The Demon in the Wood

/ 05 STARS, LB NOVELLA THE GRISHA

The Demon in the Wood Book Cover The Demon in the Wood
The Grisha Trilogy
Leigh Bardugo
Juvenile Fiction
Tor Books
June 17, 2014
EBook
67

Limited collector’s edition of the final book features an exclusive Darkling prequel story!

Before he became the Darkling, he was just a lonely boy of extraordinary power. Get a look into the past that forged a brutal and brilliant leader.

WrensReads Review:

“He understood then. The Grisha lived as shadows did, passing over the surface of the world, touching nothing, forced to change their shapes and hide in corners, driven by fear as shadows were driven by the sun. No safe place. No haven.

There will be, he promised in the darkness, new words written upon his heart. I will make one.“

This is heartbreaking. I can’t really say anything else besides you just break for The Darkling more than you did before.

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