Among the inhuman are the warring brothers Morozko, the winter-king with whom Vasya conducts a conflicted romance, and Medved, a demon addicted to chaos. Among the humans are Vasya's sister, Olga, compromised by her desire for wealth and position her brother, Sasha, a monk with a taste for the military life Grand Prince Dmitrii and corrupt priest Konstantin. Because the novel starts with a bang where the preceding volume left off, with Moscow nearly burned to a crisp by a Firebird imperfectly controlled by Vasya, readers are advised to backtrack to the two earlier books rather than attempt to sort out all the characters and backstory on the fly. In a luxuriously detailed yet briskly suspenseful follow-up to The Bear and the Nightingale (2017) and The Girl in the Tower (2018), Arden's historically based fantasy follows heroic Vasya-a young woman with a strong connection to the spirits of the place where she lives-as she attempts to save her family and her country from evil forces. A satisfying conclusion to a trilogy set in medieval times in the area on the verge of becoming Russia.
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