An avid reader of fantasy literature since age six, when she first made her way through The Lord of the Rings, Naomi Novik is also a history buff with a particular interest in the Napoleonic era and a fondness for the work of Patrick O’Brian and Jane Austen. She studied English literature at Brown University, and did graduate work in computer science at Columbia University before leaving to participate in the design and development of the computer game Neverwinter Nights: Shadow of Undrentide. Over the course of a brief winter sojourn spent working on the game in Edmonton, Canada (accompanied by a truly alarming coat that now lives brooding in the depths of her closet), she realized she preferred writing to programming, and on returning to New York, decided to try her hand at novels.
Naomi lives in New York City with her husband and six computers. Her website is at naominovik.com
“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.”
Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life.
Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood.
The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. She knows—everyone knows—that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn’t, and her dearest friend in the world. And there is no way to save her.
But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose.
每个人都要与自己的根和平相处 每个人都要与自己的根和平相处,不管这根是好的还是不好的,其实也就是我们的原生家庭、遗传性格,等等。没有谁可以强大到彻底抛弃自己的原有和过去,我们的现在不过都是建立在过去的基础之上的。讲和,不那么容易,但都是我们要做的妥协。生命...
评分随着西方文化的大量渗透,魔法、精灵、吸血鬼、恶魔等等元素成了我们熟知甚至于习以为常的事物。在小说魔戒、哈利波特掀起热潮的时候,我们热切的盼望着能够引进更多的西方魔幻主题的书籍。与此同时,国内的一些网络作者也开始大量创作以西方魔法元素为背景的网络小说,一时之...
评分读了小一半,我来找一找目前书中出现的元素: 1.龙抓少女的献祭仪式(类似《他是龙》那种) 2.五十度斯内普+速速石化 3.长发公主,和长发公主中用平底锅(书中为餐盘)敲王子头的梗 4.百合动不动就互相握手,互相拥抱,互相。。。 5.《金枝》中的五朔节树(书中的蜡烛树)加上各...
评分读了小一半,我来找一找目前书中出现的元素: 1.龙抓少女的献祭仪式(类似《他是龙》那种) 2.五十度斯内普+速速石化 3.长发公主,和长发公主中用平底锅(书中为餐盘)敲王子头的梗 4.百合动不动就互相握手,互相拥抱,互相。。。 5.《金枝》中的五朔节树(书中的蜡烛树)加上各...
Astolat巨巨的星云奖===看了三分之一依然有些搞不懂主题,感觉主角背景水很深,可是我猜不出,ps11章才有情感进展===奔溃了,看到70%了我还是不太理解为什么能拿奖
评分3.75 文笔前期很吸引人 后期审美疲劳 看到龙的设定进来的 结果剧情有一半跟大哥没什么关系 到最后20%plot发展的太慢了 描写过多反而不容易集中 导致剧情有些枯燥
评分Everybody will need his/her root, and I like you, mr Dragon.
评分看到第五章,弃了。生命太短暂了,还是看点好看的书吧。||终于看完了第一章,看两页就忍不住要去看点别的,因为好难看啊!第一章太YA了,简直是我看过的最YA的小说,什么饥饿游戏之类的在它面前都要下跪了。女主真是讨人嫌啊!男主也莫名其妙。希望后面能好看些。
评分很好看,Novik一向非常会讲故事。喜欢世界观和最后非暴力解决问题的方式。爱情情节略嫌多余。总体说来,无愧于星云奖。
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