{"id":32857,"date":"2024-08-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=32857"},"modified":"2024-08-01T08:03:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T13:03:20","slug":"historical-fantasy-twinsiefortheday-baba-yaga-mask-by-kris-spisak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=32857","title":{"rendered":"#historical #fantasy #twinsiefortheday- Baba Yaga Mask by Kris Spisak"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When their Ukrainian grandmother is lost on a trans-Atlantic Flight, two sisters are swept into a quest across eastern Europe to find the woman who had always told more tales than truths.<\/p>\n

From Poland to Slovakia to Hungary and beyond, Larissa and Ira navigate the steps of Ukrainian folk dance, the cliff-side paths of Slovak Paradise National Park, and the stark realities of war, folktales, and feminism, all for the sake of chasing who they\u2019re starting to believe is a true Baba Yaga. Understanding their family’s roots has never been more clear.<\/p>\n

The setting\u2019s mythic properties drift like ghosts in the humid air, hinting of the folktales the sisters whisper like codes of bravery. The nesting dolls they discover reveal how each woman becomes stronger when tucked one, within another, within another\u2014forgetting lies and truths to seize upon history, love, and the familial traditions that have shaped them into who they are together.<\/p>\n

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Review by Brandy<\/p>\n

I received this book.<\/p>\n

Hi everyone I\u2019m here with an audio book review this time around and I listened to this through a new<\/div>\n
site that I have never used before. In case anyone is wondering I listened to it through audiobooks.com<\/div>\n
and the sound quality was excellent. It does encourage you to use their app but I was able to listen to it<\/div>\n
through their website.<\/div>\n
This story is about Larissa and Ira and how they go to from Poland to Slovakia to Hungary to search for<\/div>\n
their missing grandmother. The narrator is good and does a decent job of letting you know which<\/div>\n
character is speaking and keeps the listener from getting confused. The story jumps back and forth<\/div>\n
between the story of the search for their grandmother and their grandmother\u2019s story of her life during<\/div>\n
the war and how she survived.<\/div>\n
If you like a lot of details in your stories you will like this one. The author is very good with details and<\/div>\n
gives a good picture of different scenes in the book. I will be honest I was more drawn to the story of<\/div>\n
their grandmother\u2019s life during the war than the search for her when she goes missing. Larissa and Ira<\/div>\n
have their own bit of adventure during their search but some of it just didn\u2019t draw me in as much as the<\/div>\n
other side of the story.<\/div>\n
There is nothing supernatural in this story but there is a solid story about family traditions and how they<\/div>\n
can bind a family and all its generations together. I recommend this story for older teen and up.<\/div>\n

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Kris Spisak wrote her first book, Get a Grip on Your Grammar: 250 Writing and Editing Reminders for the Curious or Confused (Career Press, 2017; HarperCollins India 2020), to help writers of all kinds sharpen their storytelling and empower their communications. Her \u201cWords You Should Know\u201d podcast, Grammartopia\u00ae events, and Story Stop Tour programs follow the same mission, as do her second and third books, The Novel Editing Workbook (Davro Press, 2020) and The Family Story Workbook (Davro Press, 2020). Kirkus Reviews called her debut novel, The Baba Yaga Mask (Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, 2022), \u201cA complex, poetic tale.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kris has been spotlighted in Writer\u2019s Digest and The Huffington Post for her work as an editor and author dedicated to helping other writers. When not researching, writing, teaching, or editing, she can often be found going on hiking trips in the Appalachians, sneaking off to the Gulf coast beaches of Florida, and travelling as much as she can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When their Ukrainian grandmother is lost on a trans-Atlantic Flight, two sisters are swept into a quest across eastern Europe to find the woman who had always told more tales than truths. From Poland to Slovakia to Hungary and beyond, Larissa and Ira navigate the steps of Ukrainian folk dance, the cliff-side paths of Slovak … Continue reading #historical #fantasy #twinsiefortheday- Baba Yaga Mask by Kris Spisak<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[86],"tags":[1725],"class_list":["post-32857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twinsie-of-the-day","tag-kris-spisak"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-8xX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32858,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32857\/revisions\/32858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}