This was a pretty disappointing read. 
 It had the makings of an intriguing fairytale-esque fantasy: a mysterious magician, a dark and threatening forest, fantastical creatures...and I let myself buy into the hype. I've seen a lot of 5 star reviews for this book, and I genuinely can't comprehend why so many people loved this book so much. 
 I have a lot of complaints about Uprooted, but I'll start with the characters. 
 I don't think there was a single interesting or believably dynamic character in the whole book. The narrator is one of the most Mary Sue-ish Mary Sues I've ever read. Agniezska so plain and unremarkable, she tells you, even as she casually discovers that she's some kind of super special magician who has essentially limitless powers. Her best friend is even worse: Kasia is a pure and precious flower who has not a single flaw. I could not bring myself to give the slightest shit what happened to either of them. The Dragon was slightly more interesting, but he was also an actual asshole and the relationship between him and Agniezska had no real development. He was just a dick to her all the time, and although I found her pretty annoying too, I don't see how we're supposed to view that as romantic tension. 
 The magic system was another endless source of frustration. Where do the wizards' powers come from? How do they work? How is magical ability determined, and how does it manifest itself? I wanted to know more about how the spells worked, what the limits were on magic, the history of its practice, etc. Unfortunately, you will find none of the answers to those questions in this book. I really wanted to know more about Jaga in particular, and I was especially disappointed that she never really featured in the plot. 
 And the plot. Damn. I don't even know what to say, because it was so confusingly all over the place that it didn't even feel like there was a consistent plot. I'm not gonna bother going into it because I don't feel like it's worth my time to try to make sense of it. 
 One of the most frustrating things about Uprooted, though, was that every once in a while, the writing was actually good. Occasionally I came across a sentence that was elegant and poetic, and then I would get hopeful again for about .2 seconds before it went back to being shitty. I thought the writing style in the last chapter especially was better written than the entire rest of the book. It had a kind of magical realism feel to it, and Agniezska was finally being independent and getting shit done instead of whining about how unfortunate her life was and wondering if the Dragon liked her. The backstory of the Wood was interesting, too, and it could have really added a lot more to the story if it hadn't been infodumped on the reader in the last 20 pages. 
 Overall, this was WAY overhyped, and I wouldn't recommend it.