Little Knife

This tale had a surprise ending, and it was a a pleasant surprise that the stifled heroine grasped her agency at last.

Kinda makes me think about a woman, trapped in an abusive relationship, tricking shady outsiders into helping her escape.

Things learned:
- Ownership is a complicated matter, and no living thing can truly be owned fully. Especially not rivers.
- Every free gift is suspect of ulterior motives, unless proven otherwise with, like, ACTUAL PROOF.
- Bardugo can spin a mean short tale, and I would happily read nothing but her shortstories.

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Spring 2021 (March);
Grishaverse Full Read April/March in preparation for Shadow & Bone TV Series

Always a delight and such a warm wrap-around love. I always madly adore getting to drop into Russian retellings, with their own deep histories and new magical systems. The twists and turns at the ends of these fairytales is always the best parts of these I think.


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I love the magical twist and reveal at the end of Little Knife, both for the river and for the girl (and what happened to the little town). I love how this starts out as a story we all know and then explodes to something so much more.

Thanks to the lovely karen I found this little gem. Leigh Bardugo can write! I love this type of story. At first I didn't think I was going to like Little Knife much because we had the perfect girl. Yeva-her beauty was enough to make men lose their senses, cause fights, yada yada.
Then her father the duke decided it was time for her to marry and figured was for himself to prosper.
Life has a way of not working out like you figure.

4/5

- Beautiful storyline
- good writing
- Fast read
- Will feed to your hunger of more from the Grishaverse

❧ audiobook review

Ooooh, this was quiet good. I'm really enjoying these short stories.

Deze Ravkaanse volksvertelling is een begeleidend verhaal bij De Grisha Trilogie.

De schoonheid van Yeva is zo betoverend, dat alle mannen van Ravka naar Velisyana komen om ook maar een glimp van haar op te kunnen vangen. Zelfs de prins van Ravka wil haar om haar hand vragen. Maar haar vader heeft grootste plannen met haar en schrijft een wedstrijd uit. De arme getijdekeerder Semyon heeft hier wel oren naar en vraagt de rivier, zijn enige vriend, om hulp. Maar of dat wel zo’n goed idee is...