I didn’t find the story very beautiful or special, but I’m grateful that it developed and had a logical end. I also like how she grows throughout the story. She can be funny, and I like how brave and independent she is. Good things about the book The protagonistĪs cliché as Agnieszka might be (an ordinary girl who turns out to be not that ordinary), I like her personality. The main character is Agnieszka who seems to be very simple and talentless until, to Agnieszka’s own surprise, we discover unexpected things about her and start following her adventures. Whatever he does to them, the girls don’t want to stay in the village after he lets them go. There’s a powerful wizard called Dragon who takes a girl from the village every ten years and keeps her in his tower for the period of ten years. In fact, at some point I thought that the Wood, being the big evil which “corrupts” and tortures people, is an allegory for communism. The prince from Polnya is called Marek (a Polish name), the prince from Rosja is called Vasily (a Russian name). Polnya is often at war with a country called Rosja (a Polish word for “Russia”). The action takes place in a country called Polnya. Uprooted was my first attempt in decades to read a book of this genre.
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