Entered into the matter of the fantastic with the recent bibliographic review of Robert Jordan, we now continue the path of great projections and narrative digressions to analyze the life and work (well, only the work because I have no idea about life) of a Naomi novik made female representative capital (together with Cornelia funke and some other more) of the most epic, uchronic, dystopian fantasy or everything that involves new worlds in the heat of new lights.
Within a scenography loaded with the genre's rigorous fantasies, in which Novik aesthetically recreates, it is curious, however, how this author develops an even existentialist point if you hurry me. An intention that goes beyond the usual struggle between good and evil, because in the darkness of threatened worlds, Novik seeks the reason for evil and the reasons why good is always lurking.
And evil and good go in communicating vessels that oscillate depending on where the Universe is moving. The question is balance, the ability to offer a double reading capable of entertaining those who only seek solace for their imagination and depth to those who are also interested in moral readings.
Top 3 best Naomi Novik novels
the golden enclaves
We begin with the end of a trilogy with Potter evocations that soon disappear to rethink the scenario of magic under the slogan "Knowledge grants protection." Because only those who end up mastering the arts of magic that this school offers can survive. After all, as we delve into the previous volumes A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate it makes sense that this is the case. Because what is at hand is something more than the magician's tricks and prestige...
The one thing no one ever mentions inside the Scholomancy is what he's going to do when he gets out. Not even the richest enclave student would tempt fate like that. But we do not dream of anything more than the meager possibility of crossing the doors and finding ourselves, against all odds, with a life ahead of us, a life far from the corridors of Scholomancy.
Now, that unattainable dream has become a reality. I'm out of school—we've all been out—and I didn't even need to turn into a monstrous dark witch to do it. Wow, my great-grandmother's prophecy of death and destruction! I didn't kill the enclave members, I saved them. Me, along with Orion and all our allies. Our graduation plan worked out wonderfully: we saved everyone, made the world a safer place for wizards, and restored peace and harmony to all settlements.
Ha, no kidding! In reality, everything has gone to waste. Someone else has set up the settlement destruction project for me, and it's likely that everyone we've saved is about to die in the coming settlement war. And the first thing I must do now, having miraculously escaped from the Scolomancy, is to turn around and find a way to get back inside.
A dark tale
The Carrie of Stephen King he had the sinister gift of fire to avenge his world. The Agnieszka thing is not so bad, until the Dragon marks that turning point in which the girl can explode to become the particular Carrie of the place.
Agnieszka has a gift: she is capable of breaking, staining or losing anything she is wearing in a matter of seconds. He lives in the valley with his family and is happy in his wild little home. But the evil and twisted presence of the Forest has been hanging over them all for years.
To protect themselves, the town relies on the power of a mysterious wizard known as the Dragon, the only one capable of controlling the power of the Forest with his magic. In exchange for protection, he asks only one thing: every ten years he will be able to choose a girl and take her to his tower, a fate almost as terrible as falling prey to the Forest.
Election day is approaching and Agnieszka is scared. He knows - indeed everyone knows - that the Dragon will choose Kasia, the prettiest, the bravest of all the aspirants. And, also, Agnieszka's best friend. But when the Dragon arrives, to everyone's surprise, it is not Kasia he points to ...
An icy world
Fantasy serves the allegorical, the absolute metaphor from new worlds compared to ours. And in that reflection, Naomi enjoys giving us her readings and conclusions so that we can enjoy that whole fiction super removed from our environment that nevertheless looms over our reality with shadows of certainty.
Miryem's family is on the brink of poverty, until she takes charge of the situation and soon gains a reputation for being able to turn silver into gold.
When the king of the staryk, creatures made of ice that threaten to take away summer forever, learns of such a feat, he imposes a task that seems impossible and that will make Miryem discover that she has powers. He will weave a web in which a young peasant girl, Wanda, and the unfortunate daughter of a local nobleman who intends to marry her to the young and handsome Tsar Mirnatius will be trapped. Miryem and his two unexpected allies will embark on a desperate odyssey that will take them to the limits of sacrifice, power and love.
Other recommended books by Naomi Novik
Her Majesty's Dragon
Having independent novels of the series of any author, and as long as they are of similar quality to those sagas of the day, I prefer to choose the independent work. In Naomi's case, it's easy because the works listed above are extremely interesting. But of course, he could not escape his most international and cinematographic saga. Here the Daredevil series, a great historical fantasy ...
Captain Will Laurence seals his fate by capturing the precious cargo of the frigate Amitié. The treasure is an imperial dragon egg, a gift from the Chinese emperor to Napoleon.
When the fantastic creature hatches, it will choose the captain as its breeder. He will soon discover that training him is a fascinating adventure. Together they will have to learn the dangerous tactics of aerial warfare, as France, led by a Bonaparte bolder than ever, has gathered its creatures to transport its troops over British soil. Laurence and Temerario prepare to suffer their baptism of fire!
