The Girl in the Tower
core novel 2017 The Winternight Trilogy
Record
| First published | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.35 (117,175 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 360 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781101885963 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
The Girl in the Tower, the second Winternight novel, picks up with Vasilisa Petrovna having been driven from her home and denounced as a witch after the events that saved her village with the aid of the frost-demon Morozko. Facing a future limited to marriage or the convent, the only choices considered acceptable for a woman in her position, Vasya instead disguises herself as a boy and sets off on horseback with her magical horse to see more of the world than either fate would allow. Her travels bring her into contact with her siblings in Moscow, her brother Sasha, a warrior monk, and her sister Olga, a princess, as well as Olga's daughter Marya, who appears to share Vasya's own rare gift, while Morozko continues to watch over her from the edges of her journey.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Winternight Trilogy
- Series: The Winternight Trilogy core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Katherine Arden
Notes
- From the series record (The Winternight Trilogy): Core Canon = all 3 novels of the completed trilogy (Del Rey, 2017-2019).
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Winternight Trilogy: position 2 of 3: previous The Bear and the Nightingale (2017) · next The Winter of the Witch (2019)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Winternight trilogy
- sfadb: Katherine Arden
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_in_the_Tower_(novel)
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