![]() ![]() But Moscovy is in turmoil as bandits burn villages and political upheaval is underway, and Vasya soon finds herself embroiled in all of it. After Vasya leaves her village, she sets off to search for adventure and see the world along with her stallion, Solovey. The Girl in the Tower picks up right after the end of The Bear and the Nightingale. Plot Summaryįor the Detailed Plot Summary, click here or scroll all the way down. And Vasya and Solovey ride off since Vasya is now known as a witch and cannot stay. With his father dead, Alyosha becomes the boyar (lord) of their village. His sacrifice causes the Bear to be bound once again. Vasya’s father shows up and sacrifices himself to save Vasya. Anna (Vasya’s stepmother) is killed by the Bear because Anna also has the power of sight. The chyerti Vasya helped to sustain defend her in the battle. All the chyerti choose sides and join in. He also turns a nightingale into a stallion, Solovey (which means Nightingale) for her to ride.Īt the end of the book, there is a great battle between Morozko and the Bear. Vasya is given a talisman (a blue jewel) by Morozko to protect her. The Bear wants to kill Vasya because killing those with powers make him stronger. However, lately the Bear has been growing stronger and will soon be free. A long time ago, Morozko had to restrain Medved and keep him captive in the forest to stop him. The Bear, meanwhile, lives and thrives on fear and disorder. As the God of Death, Morozko is in charge of the natural order of things. The two are brothers, but they are enemies. There is a conflict going on between two demons, Morozko (The Frost King and God of Death) and Medved (The Bear). It is soon revealed that the undead are being raised by a demon, Medved. Vasya instead has to single-handedly sustain the spirits and try to protect them. That winter is harsh, and undead creatures (upyr) attack the village. People stop leaving offerings for the spirits and it weakens them, which prevents them from exerting their protective influence on the village. When a devout Christian priest, Konstantin, is sent to their village, he discourages adherence in the old beliefs. ![]() (Anna can see them too, but she believes it is madness.) ![]() From house elves (domovoi) to water nymphs (rusalka) to the horse spirits (vazila), she sees and befriends all the creatures from the folktales and old beliefs. She is able to see the spirits (chyerti) that others cannot. Vasya has the powers her grandmother had, including the gift of sight. Sasha is sent to Moscow to be the companion for Prince Dmitrii (their cousin, who is next in line to be Grand Prince), where the two of them grow up in the monastery. Kolya gets married and lives nearby with his family. Her sister Olya gets married to a Prince and leaves. Vasya’s grandmother was known among the people to be a “witch”, and was married to the Grand Prince of Muscovy.ĭuring the course of the Bear and the Nightingale, her father gets married to a woman named Anna and has a daughter, Irina. Vasya’s sister is Olya and her brothers are Alyosha, Kolya, and Sasha. Vasya is a girl who is raised by her father Pyotr, who is the boyar (feudal lord) of a village called Lesnaya Zemlya. Show/Hide The Bear and the Nightingale Recap Here’s a quick refresher (below) on The Bear and the Nightingale if it’s been a while since you’ve read it. I’ve included a quick recap of the first book in case someone is reading this and has forgotten what happens in the first book. I get easily distracted by shiny new books, and there’s a number of July titles I have my eye on. I expect I will read the final book of the trilogy, The Winter of the Witch, fairly soon, but we’ll see. This is all a very long-winded way of saying that it took a while, but I did it, and I am still very enthusiastic about this series. So then, I had to find time to re-read the first book, The Bear and the Nightingale, before I could forge ahead in the second one. I started it, but kept putting it down because I felt like I was missing a bunch of stuff since I had forgotten most of the first book. Well, actually the plan was to read the second book before the third one came out (which was released earlier this year in January), but obviously that did not happen.Īnyway, I finally finished The Girl in the Tower this week, which I have been reading on and off for a while. I’ve been meaning to read the second book in Katherine Arden’s delightful Winternight Trilogy pretty much ever since I read the first book. By Jennifer Marie Lin on Jul 4th, 2019 (Last Updated Oct 19th, 2020) ![]()
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