Description Share Post Vanya and the Wild Hunt Sangu Mandanna, illustrated by Kristina Kister (Pan Macmillan) Vanya’s companions are the aged books in the library atop her parents’ bookshop However on the morning she overhears the books’ warnings, she’s perturbed by more. What do they mean that she won’t do anything to heed their advice? What is going on? However, it’s not the books, but forgotten homework that inspires her to return home from the school gates. Vanya’s discovery thereafter, changes her life forever. Not only does she meet people from her parents’ history, but she learns about her mother’s family. Then again, she departs, rapidly, for Auramere, where it seems talking books is one of the least strange occurrences. In fact, this place is one full of magic and threat, where legendary creatures who pose a risk to all goodness are imprisoned forever. However, what of Baba Yaga whom we know from The House With Chicken Legs, for example? Thereafter, what about bargains such as Vanya’s mother made? What’s more, are all ogresses, giants and dangerous monsters really at bay? Or could snarling, smoky wolves suggest the imminent risk of some other, some long forgotten mythical creatures planning to attack? Vanya’s world is upside-down. As she tries to make sense of this mystical place that is so central to her family and now to her, she realises strengths that she never knew she had. Bookwagon is charged, excited and thoroughly smitten by Vanya and the Wild Hunt.
