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I WAS HOPING BABA YAGA WOULD MAKE AN APPEARANCE! AN ICON

Ugh, I am still not over Vasya’s tenderness and innocence towards the chyerti. I love this dynamic of them being curious of her and “joining her side.” It’s so wholesome.

I’m so glad the siblings, one by one, are coming to understand there is a world that lives among them they cannot (all) see.

“‘She was ugly.’”

“‘She was as wild as the sea… And full, like the sea, of mysteries.’”

Say what you want about Medved, but he understands Vasya better than most people in these books and I appreciate that.

YOU CAN’T KILL MY MOROZKO TOO
I’m literally just starting this book and it’s tearing me apart already

SOLOVEY
I’M GOING TO CRY
NOT MY PRECIOUS LITTLE CHICK-BABY

Aww, I love the idea of Marya (Olga’s daughter) going to visit her uncle Alyosha (still one of my faves) in the countryside where she’d be able to have someone understand and make space for her to learn about the different spirits that Vasya got to know growing up.

I’m so happy to be back in Vasya’s world. Picked up right where we left off which is great because I forgot a couple of details.