Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price–and no one knows that …
@lapis@bookwyrm.social How did you like this? I'm so curious about how people who spend less of their mythology time in Eastern European folktales thought about the worldbuilding.
@eb76fd566cce52ed0afc588561864914@boundcovers.com I quite liked it (though I've read it before). I like Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse stuff, and I have a fondness for this one (over Shadow & Bone) because I started with it. If you had any resources for learning about Eastern European Folktales, I'd love to hear them :)
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@lapis@bookwyrm.social The University of Pittsburgh maintains a list here: sites.pitt.edu/~dash/slavic.html I've not historically read as much about them in English, so I don't have a ton of personal recommendations, but I do know that's the list people who read in both English and a Slavic language tend to like!
The biggest thing that bothered me was that some of the "fantasy" terms are just real words or names of mythical figures, and if you know what they mean they're spoilers! Right there in the book! I still got sucked into the story, but was kinda disappointed about that part.
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