The witch and the tsar / Olesya Salnikova Gilmore.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593546970 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0593546970
- Physical Description: 420 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Ace, [2022]
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Subject: | Baba Yaga (Legendary character) > Fiction. Women healers > Fiction. Empresses > Russia > Fiction. Magic > Fiction. Russia > History > Ivan IV, 1533-1584 > Fiction. |
Genre: | Witch fiction. Fantasy fiction. Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 2 of 3 copies available at Kenton County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | GILMO O (Text) | 33126019968654 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Erlanger Branch | GILMO O (Text) | 33126019968662 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 05/06/2024 |
Independence Branch | GILMO O (Text) | 33126019968621 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2022 August
DEBUT Gilmore impresses with this feminist retelling of the Baba Yaga folktale set in 16th-century Russia. In Gilmore's hands, Baba Yaga is not the evil, old witch of myth, a rumor invented to reduce unmarried, reclusive women to monsters. This Yaga has a mortal father and immortal mother and has not aged past her thirties, even after centuries on Earth. She spends her time healing mortals and lives in a hut that has chicken legs and can understand her. When Anastasia, wife of the man who would become known as Ivan the Terrible, falls ill, Yaga realizes that someone is poisoning her and threatening the future of Russia. She also soon finds that immortals are meddling in the affairs of humans, which launches her on a years-long quest to both fight and find allies among the gods, as the fate of Russia hangs in the balance. Along the way, Yaga will experience heartbreak and love as she creates a found family and learns the shocking truth of who is pulling the Tsar's strings.
Copyright 2022 Library Journal.VERDICT . Gilmore's immersive prose steeps readers in this wonderfully epic folktale fantasy full of magic and myth.âMelissa DeWild