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''The Bear and the Nightingale'' is the first of a trilogy but this book stands alone as a story. Vasya's adventures will continue in the next book but this one is written and concluded in its own right and this is perhaps the only negative with the book. The characters that I presume we will meet again are given the time to be well established and well-rounded but some characters, for example Vasya's step mother Anna, are written only to prop up the plot and can feel a little thin. My biggest disappointment is that this also applies to the great evil lurking in the forest, and I felt that the suspense and danger so carefully built up throughout the book was somewhat let down in the final battle. Having said that, the next book is called ''The Girl in the Tower'', and I will definitely read it when it is released next year and I shall keep my fingers crossed that Father Konstantin will pop up again.

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