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“The Witch and the Tsar ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. As a half-goddess possessing magic, Yaga is used to living on her own, her prior entanglements with mortals having led to heartbreak. She mostly keeps to her hut in the woods, where those in need of healing seek her out, even as they spread rumors about her supposed cruelty and wicked spells. But when her old friend Anastasia—now the wife of the tsar, and suffering from a mysterious illness—arrives in her forest desperate for her protection, Yaga realizes the fate of all of Russia is tied to Anastasia’s. Yaga must step out of the shadows to protect the land she loves. As she travels to Moscow, Yaga witnesses a sixteenth century Russia on the brink of chaos. Tsar Ivan—soon to become Ivan the Terrible—grows more volatile and tyrannical by the day, and Yaga believes the tsaritsa is being poisoned by an unknown enemy. But what Yaga cannot know is that Ivan is being manipulated by powers far older and more fearsome than anyone can imagine.

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The Witch and the Tsar is a retelling of the Baba Yaga myth, set in Russia during the dark times of Ivan the Terrible. Instead of the child-eating Baba Yaga of cautionary fairytales, though, our wonderfully relatable heroine Yaga is more akin to the unfairly vilified “witches” of actual history: a healer, a midwife, an eccentric loner—in short, a woman. But as the half-human daughter of the Russian motherhood goddess, she’s also more than that, and she’ll do anything to save her beloved country from the Tsar’s reign of terror. On the historical side, this book is refreshingly well-researched and full of exacting detail, while on the fantasy side, it is peopled with the Slavic pantheon of gods, who under Gilmore’s deft hand become a deliciously fickle and impulsive bunch. For me, it was the perfect creative combination of history and myth, a unique and unpredictable tale.