History YMMV / Uprooted

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: 'Uprooted' is [[http://www.naominovik.com/2015/08/ask-naomi-is-uprooted-appropriate-for-a-young-reader/ an adult fantasy novel]], but despite this some readers were still surprised by the sexual content.
** That's not surprising, given that it's not really foreshadowed. There's no erotic language in the first few hundred pages, it wasn't mentioned in any of the meta-text I read about the book. The protagonist is also a teenager, which implies it will be a YA book.
* Agnieszka gets together with The Dragon, and the story ends with her introducing him to her mother. Except that, right before that she is shown happily fixing the issues with the forest. Since he wants all the fine things in life and wants to live in a city, they don't seem like they'll do well as a couple.

* WhatAnIdiot:
** The Dragon knows the court all assume that he takes girls to his tower to bed them, and disregards them completely as fools. However, due to his isolationist tendencies and general [[NoSocialSkills social incompetence]], the Dragon is blown away to find out that the local villagers ''also'' think he's kidnapping girls to rape, and that girls born in time to be taken have their lives radically altered by the knowledge that someday they may be taken from their families to serve as sex slaves.
** Agnieszka herself points out how foolish it was for her to send a letter to Dvernik about Kasia being cured with the only attempt at discretion being essentially "P.S. don't tell anyone", but she and the Dragon were too exhausted to consider how easily it would get out.
** The royal courts in Polnya and Rosya would get more of a pass on [[DivideAndConquer The Wood keeping them focused on one another]] if both were not fully aware that big enchanted forest taking up so much of the border happened to be aggressive, malevolent, and ''[[ItCanThink dangerously intelligent]]''.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: 'Uprooted' is [[http://www.naominovik.com/2015/08/ask-naomi-is-uprooted-appropriate-for-a-young-reader/ an adult fantasy novel]], but despite this some readers were still surprised by the sexual content.

** The royal courts in Polnya and Rosya would get more of a pass on [[DivideAndConquer The Wood keeping them focused on one another]] if both were not fully aware that big enchanted forest taking up so much of the border were not aggressive, malevolent, and ''[[ItCanThink dangerously intelligent]]''.

* CoitusEnsues: The sex scene between The Dragon and Agnieszka appears out of nowhere, doesn't fit the potential audience of the book, and does nothing to advance the plot, since by that point Agnieszka and The Dragon have already been working together and starting to get along.
* RomanticPlotTumor: After establishing that the main relationship of the story is the friendship between Agnieszka and Kasia, the story has hook-up with The Dragon and Agnieszka get together. That in itself wouldn't be so bad, except for the fact that there's suddenly a ''sex scene'' with no warning (and not [[IkeaErotica IKEA Erotica]] either), but the epilogue acts like these two getting together is an important resolution of the story.

** Agnieszka herself in the first several chapters is simply lost in the world. After living for so long thinking her best friend would be taken by the Dragon, ''she'' gets taken instead. She learns she has magic, but keeps doing it badly and embarrassing herself in front the Dragon. The Dragon himself is nothing but condescending and belittling, and it's weeks before he even tells her that learning magic is what she's supposed to be doing; his previous "lessons" had amounted to "say this word", without instruction as to what it was supposed to do. By the time she saves Dvernik from an incursion by the Wood, though, she's able to stand on her feet and be more proactive.

* Coitus Ensues: The sex scene between The Dragon and Agnieszka appears out of nowhere, doesn't fit the potential audience of the book, and does nothing to advance the plot, since Agnieszka and The Dragon have already been working together and starting to get along.

* RomanticPlotTumor: After establishing that the main relationship of the story is the friendship between Agnieszka and Kasia, the story has hook-up with The Dragon and Agnieszka get together. That in itself wouldn't be so bad, (except for the fact that there's suddenly a ''sex scene'' with no warning (and not[[IkeaErotica IKEA Erotica]] either)), but the epilogue acts like these two getting together is the most important resolution of the story.

* RomanticPlotTumor: After establishing that the main relationship of the story is the friendship between Agnieszka and Kasia, the story has hook-up with The Dragon and Agnieska get together. That in itself wouldn't be so bad, except for the fact that there's suddenly a ''sex scene'' with no warning, but the epilogue acts like these two getting together is the most important resolution of the story. * WhatAnIdiot:

* WhatAnIdiot:

* RomanticPlotTumor: After establishing that the main relationship of the story is the friendship between Agnieszka and Kasia, the story has hook-up with The Dragon and Agnieska get together. That in itself wouldn't be so bad, except for the fact that there's suddenly a ''sex scene'' with no warning, but the epilogue acts like these two getting together is the most important resolution of the story.

* TheWoobie: The Royal children go through a ridiculous amount of trauma during the course of the book and only make it out alive by the skin of their teeth.

* FanPreferredCouple: Given how devoted Agnieska and Kasia are to each other, even through The Summoning's revelation of the secret resentment's they held, a good number of readers were hoping ''they'' would end up together rather than Agnieszka and the Dragon.

* WhatAnIdiot: The Dragon knows the court all assume that he takes girls to his tower to bed them, and disregards them completely as fools. However, due to his isolationist tendencies and general [[NoSocialSkills social incompetence]], the Dragon is blown away to find out that the local villagers ''also'' think he's kidnapping girls to rape, and that girls born in time to be taken have their lives radically altered by the knowledge that someday they may be taken from their families to serve as sex slaves.

* TheWoobie: The Royal children go through a ridiculous amount of trauma during the course of the book and only make it out alive by the skin of their teeth.
** Agnieszka herself in the first several chapters is simply lost in the world. After living for so long thinking her best friend would be taken by the Dragon, ''she'' gets taken instead. She learns she has magic, but keeps doing it badly and embarrassing herself in front the Dragon. The Dragon himself is nothing but condescending and belittling, and it's weeks before he even tells her that learning magic is what she's supposed to be doing; his previous "lessons" had amounted to "say this word", without instruction as to what it was supposed to do. By the time she saves Dvernik from an incursion by the Wood, though, she's able to stand on her feet and be more proactive.

* TheWoobie: The Royal children go through a ridiculous amount of trauma during the course of the book and only make it out alive by the skin of their teeth.

* MarySue: Kasia is nearly a borderline example, being the prettiest, bravest, strongest girl in the village and much of the book is dedicated to Agnez trying to save her. Later she becomes badass swordswoman, captain of the guard and gets a ton of marriage proposals.