Things I Like: Uprooted

I've just finished Naomi Novik's new book, Uprooted, which is totally separate from her Temeraire series. This is more of a classic fantasy story, based on her childhood memories of a grandmother who told her fairytales from Poland. And thus it's got a bit of a fairytale feel, with the protagonist being a teenage girl who lives next to the deep and dark Wood, and there's a sorcerer who lives in a tower at the edge of the Wood who chooses a girl from the villages in that valley to come serve him every ten years...

( More details, very minor spoilers, none for beyond the first half of the book )