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Happy New Year and Happy Release Day

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2017 was a big year for Slavic influence--I read  The Bear and the Nightingale, Uprooted,  and  The Fifth Doll ; I also played several video games that centered around Slavic myths.  When Penguin sent me an ARC for  The Girl in the Tower , I was ready to close out my year with more cheryti and snow. The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden The holidays kept my reading time somewhat limited, but The Girl in the Tower  was a tale that just kept pulling at me to read chapters whenever I could squeeze them in.   I was more impressed with this novel than I was with  The Bear and the Nightingale.  I don't often enjoy the second novel in a trilogy more than the first because it often seems like the author is trying way too hard to write a second novel.  Those forceful pages were not present here.  There was a growth in writing that made the cohesion of storytelling better this time around. While Vasilisa wandered the woods and mingled with cheryti in the first novel, she was