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Thursday Quotables: "Uprooted"

7/8/2015

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Thursday Quotables is a weekly meme hosted @ Bookshelf Fantasies. Basically, each week you highlight a noteworthy line or passage from the text you are currently reading. This week, I've decided to go for a passage very early on in Naomi Novik's Uprooted. I absolutely love the snark here: it was what made me rush out and order a copy after reading only a few paragraphs of the excerpt.

Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.
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If you haven't heard of this novel yet I challenge you to go read the excerpt here. I'm pretty confident you'll love it.
8 Comments
Aeriko @ The Reading Armchair link
7/9/2015 12:01:50 am

This is such an interesting quote! I'm adding this book to my TBR list :)

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Siobhan link
7/9/2015 04:47:20 pm

I definitely recommend it! I'm about 2/3 through and it has not disappointed. It is totally different to what I was expecting, but so enjoyable. Thanks for commenting.

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JazzFeathers link
7/9/2015 05:12:33 am

That's really a good quote. I understand why you were so excited.
I'm hearing lots of good things about this book. I may end up trying it :-)

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Siobhan @ The Nook
7/9/2015 04:48:24 pm

It has not let me down! It is nothing like I expected for some reason, which I love! I definitely recommend! Thanks for the comment xx

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Bookworm Inkorporated link
7/9/2015 07:21:36 am

That sounds like a fantastic book! I felt at the end that the hashtag could be #gratefulnotgrateful :)

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Siobhan @ The Nook
7/9/2015 04:49:45 pm

Haha! Yes it so could be! She just has so much sass, Agnieszka is such a fun character to read. Thanks for visiting xx

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Betti link
7/9/2015 10:30:25 am

Sounds interesting, a dragon who is not a dragon, or is there shapeshifting involved, I wonder?

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Siobhan @ The Nook
7/9/2015 04:51:21 pm

I know that was what I wondered before I started. I won't give anything away *wiggles eyebrows* but I think he got the name because he can be a bit of a beast. Thanks so much for joining in the fun Betti!

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