And when he comes upon the hunters’ sad sister, he must learn that some secrets are best left unexplored.ĭark and lovely, these novellas glitter like bright jewels in the night. When a hunter of mythic proportions enters his forest, it will take all his wits to save his companions in the forest. A runt, fighting for his life since the day he was born, he’s used to using his wits to keep his hide attached to his bones. Interestingly enough, this story is told from the perspective of the animals, with Koja the fox the unlikely hero.

As with everything in the dark world Leigh Bardugo has created, every gift waits to cut it’s beneficiary like a knife offered blade out. If The Witch of Duva is an exploration of knowledge and it’s price, then The Too-Clever Fox, ponders the question of whether cleverness is a blessing or a curse. But what else could one expect when Leigh Bardugo is at the helm of the story? And how does this novella flesh out the Ravkan world? Think on this: what is the price of knowledge and power? And what price would you pay, to stop a monster?

Yet in the end, her happily-ever-after is bittersweet. What does she find there? Knowledge? Yes. Enter a woman, beautiful and looking to replace Nadya’s mother and soon Nadya’s forced into the forest. Nadya is very much a fairy tale figure: mother dead, father estranged, starving along with her fellow villagers as a strange evil lurks in the forest just at the edge of her home. In The Witch of Duva, the Hansel and Gretel tale is skillfully interwoven with threads of horror to morph into a tale that is uniquely of the Grisha world. I was thrilled to find they were as just as edgy and dreamy as the novels whose world they share. So when I saw that she had published two novellas set in the Grisha series world, I snapped them up. It’s no secret that we Bookworms are fans of Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha series.

This story is a companion folk tale to Leigh Bardugo’s upcoming novel, Siege and Storm, the second book in the Grisha Trilogy. In Ravka, just because you avoid one trap, it doesn't mean you'll escape the next. This story is a companion folk tale to Leigh Bardugo’s debut novel, Shadow and Bone. But it’s just possible that the danger may be a little bit closer to home. There was a time when the woods near Duva ate girls.or so the story goes. The Witch of Duva and The Too-Clever Fox by Leigh Bardugo

The Witch of Duva by Leigh Bardugo