Magic is forgetting that something ever was other than as you willed it.” It proclaims the presence of a unique ability while casting an alluring enchantment. A talented and beautiful voice debuts with The Bear and Nightingale, a lovely book. Vasilisa must overcome the people she loves and use hazardous abilities that she has long kept hidden as danger looms over her in order to defend her family from an evil that seems to have emerged from her nurse’s scariest stories. While this is going on, Vasilisa’s stepmother becomes sterner and sterner in her efforts to prepare her disobedient stepdaughter for marriage or incarceration in a convent. Indeed, crops start to fail, woodland monsters get closer, and bad luck follows the village. The family agrees, but Vasilisa is terrified because she feels that more depends on their traditions than everyone is aware of. Vasilisa’s new stepmother, a fiercely devout city girl, prevents her family from worshipping the home spirits. Vasilisa’s father travels to Moscow in search of a new wife after her mother passes away. According to her nurse, wise Russians revere the spirits of the house, yard, and forest that guard their houses against evil and fear him. She adores the terrifying tale of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon that arrives in the icy night to seize the souls of the unwary. Vasilisa doesn’t mind, though, because she loves spending the cold winter nights cuddling up next to her darling siblings and listening to their nurse tell fairy tales. The majority of the year is spent in winter at the border of the Russian wilderness when snowdrifts tower over buildings.

The bear and the nightingale book