Daughter of Crows by Mark Lawrence
Overall Rating - 4.25
Emotional Impact Score - 4
Thought-Provoking Score - 4
Character Score - 5
Plot Score - 4.5
Worldbuilding Score - 4.25
Prose Score - 4
I went into this book swapping out the Furies for the Fates and was moderately confused for most of it, but once I flipped them in my mind, everything clicked.
This book is influenced by multiple mythologies, including Greek (with the Furies being a very core theme). I enjoy that Mark Lawrence made Rue an older age (60+) and it isn’t something that’s swept under the rug, it is a very common theme that is routinely brought up and is part of her character.
This book is brutal, unforgiving, and dark. The ending sets up for the next two books beautifully. This was my first Mark Lawrence book and I can’t wait to get back into his older material.
The prose itself isn’t something that I think stands out, particularly, but it does what it needs to do to get the grittiness of the story across.
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The Academy graduated three students a year, three Kindly Ones, supposedly incarnations of the trio whose name you did not speak.
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“Welcome to the Academy of Kindness.”
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“Sometimes fate delivers a better choice than anything we can come up with ourselves.”
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Youth, it seemed, was a drug she had forgotten during the course of its slow weaning.