Book guide
The Witch and the Tsar
Baba Yaga steps out of legend to challenge Ivan the Terrible and the gods behind him.
GenresFantasyHistorical
Genre and trope pairingsFantasyMythologyFantasyRetellingFantasyPolitical intrigueHistoricalLGBTQ+HistoricalMythologyHistoricalRetellingHistoricalPolitical intrigueHistoricalWar storyHistoricalResistanceHistoricalCourt politics
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About The Witch and the Tsar
Yaga has kept to her forest, healing those who seek her out while rumours make her a monster. When her old friend Anastasia, the tsaritsa, comes to her for help, Yaga is drawn into sixteenth-century Russia’s political and divine conflicts, where saving the country means confronting powers older than the throne.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Slow
Content warnings
- strong language
- violence/gore
- corpses
- mass murder
- murder
- child death
- animal death
- death
- funeral
- war/battle
- physical abuse
- torture
- psychological abuse
- illness
- arrest/imprisonment
- poisoning
- arson
- blood sacrifice
- ritual
- hypothermia
- PTSD
- rape mention
- sexual coercion
- sexism
- pregnancy
- birth
- sex
- drinking/intoxication
