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Fantasy Book Club (REMOTE)
August 10, 2021 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
$27.99The Books Around the Corner Fantasy Book Club meets monthly on the second Tuesday of every month at 6:30PM. We would like to extend an invitation to all of our fantasy loving customers.
Join us on Tuesday August 10th at 6:30pm for our Books Around the Corner Fantasy Book Club.
We will discuss The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid.
About the book:
In the vein of Naomi Novik’s New York Times bestseller Spinning Silver and Katherine Arden’s national bestseller The Bear and the Nightingale, this unforgettable debut– inspired by Hungarian history and Jewish mythology–follows a young pagan woman with hidden powers and a one-eyed captain of the Woodsmen as they form an unlikely alliance to thwart a tyrant.
In her forest-veiled pagan village, Évike is the only woman without power, making her an outcast clearly abandoned by the gods. The villagers blame her corrupted bloodline–her father was a Yehuli man, one of the much-loathed servants of the fanatical king. When soldiers arrive from the Holy Order of Woodsmen to claim a pagan girl for the king’s blood sacrifice, Évike is betrayed by her fellow villagers and surrendered.
But when monsters attack the Woodsmen and their captive en route, slaughtering everyone but Évike and the cold, one-eyed captain, they have no choice but to rely on each other. Except he’s no ordinary Woodsman–he’s the disgraced prince, Gáspár Bárány, whose father needs pagan magic to consolidate his power. Gáspár fears that his cruelly zealous brother plans to seize the throne and instigate a violent reign that would damn the pagans and the Yehuli alike. As the son of a reviled foreign queen, Gáspár understands what it’s like to be an outcast, and he and Évike make a tenuous pact to stop his brother.
As their mission takes them from the bitter northern tundra to the smog-choked capital, their mutual loathing slowly turns to affection, bound by a shared history of alienation and oppression. However, trust can easily turn to betrayal, and as Évike reconnects with her estranged father and discovers her own hidden magic, she and Gáspár need to decide whose side they’re on, and what they’re willing to give up for a nation that never cared for them at all.
TO ATTEND:
1) Purchase the book club book to support our shop. If you already own the book you may purchase a gift certificate or sponsor a stack for $15 or $25 dollars depending on if the book club book is paperback or hardcover.
2) We will email you the Zoom link and password the day before the book club.
PREVIOUS BOOK CLUB PICKS
A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Bridget Kemmerer
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvana Moreno-Garcia
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Malice by Heather Walter
The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin