If Uprooted hooked you with wild, untamed, intuitive magic, let The Wolf and the Woodsman by pull you deeper into folklore-soaked forests where power means survival.
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- Pagan gods & religious persecution amplify stakes
- Hungarian folklore feels visceral, lived-in, dangerously real
- Heroine's unpolished power = empowerment through chaos
- Slow-burn tension simmers alongside mounting political dread
If Agnieszka's wild, intuitive magic spoke to the parts of you that refuse to be tamed, Ava Reid summons that same feral energy through folklore-soaked forests and a heroine whose raw power defies every expectation. The Wolf and the Woodsman trades the Dragon's tower for Hungarian-inspired myth, where pagan gods breathe malevolence and the woods themselves are an adversary—atmospheric, visceral, and trembling with the same corrupted wonder that made the Wood unforgettable.
Here's the slow-burn romance that earns its heat, the unpolished protagonist who weaponizes her supposed weakness, and prose that pulses with lyrical dread. Reid understands what Novik knew: magic should feel like survival, not spectacle.
This is folklore as horror, empowerment as defiance—exactly what you've been craving.
What Readers Are Saying
"I absolutely loved this – my favourite book of 2021...Ava Reid paints a rich and complex picture of a kingdom steeped in ancient magic...a powerful and haunting tale of a young woman’s will to live, of love flowering in defiance of tyranny." — Samantha Shannon, Goodreads
"This is the kind of story that seeps into your very bones...It's both haunting and beautiful, brutal and magical...you can really feel the atmosphere seeping into your skin as you're pulled in. I adored reading about Evike, and she's not a character that will be easily forgotten." — Ashleigh (a frolic through fiction), Goodreads
"The writing in this was beautiful...I loved the storytelling and found the mythology interwoven throughout super interesting." — Laura Greenhalgh, Goodreads
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