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  <title><![CDATA[The Crow: The Third Book of Pellinor]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;b&gt;As this enthralling epic nears its climax, the young heroine&amp;#8217;s brother discovers his own hidden gift &amp;#8212; and the role he must play in battling the Dark.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hem is a weary orphan whose struggle for survival ends when he is reunited with his lost sister, Maerad. But Maerad has a destiny to fulfill, and Hem is sent to the golden city of Turbansk, where he learns the ways of the Bards and befriends a mysterious white crow. When the forces of the Dark threaten, Hem flees with his protector, Saliman, and an orphan girl named Zelika to join the Light&amp;#8217;s resistance forces. It is there that Hem has a vision and learns that he, too, has a part to play in Maerad&amp;#8217;s quest to solve the Riddle of the Treesong. As THE CROW continues the epic tale begun with THE NAMING and THE RIDDLE, Alison Croggon creates a world of astounding beauty overshadowed by a terrifying darkness, a world where Maerad and Hem must prepare to wage their final battle for the Light.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-month type="integer">9</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">2007</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>The Crow: The Third Book of Pellinor</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alison Croggon]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved The Naming.  I loved The Riddle (with a few notable exceptions with parts near the end).  But I might as well be honest.  I did not like The Crow.  It took me a long time to pick this one up and read it, and I’ll be honest, it was because of the lack of Cadvan and Maerad.  I really got wra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29239388">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9710178">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Dec 04 10:59:55 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[...Two small figures toil towards the Dark Tower, the center of the evil in the land, disguised as servants of the evil powers...<br/><br/>The dark, oppressive mood of Tolkien's final book of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34.The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring_The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Part_1_" title="The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien">the Lord of the Rings</a> is also felt in this third installment of the Pellinor Trilogy. Actually, it will ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9710178">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9075083">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone who likes Garth Nix]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 13 17:00:26 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the third installment of four.  Why they refer to it above as a trilogy, I couldn't tell you, other than to say they are wrong.  I enjoyed the first two novels although I have found that the beginnings of each are slightly hard to get into.  Initially, I feel overwhelmed and slightly bored a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9075083">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8006322">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 20 21:11:18 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 20 21:11:18 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really wasn't sure I was going to like this book at all. After all, the first two books were primarily about Maerad, and although there were some parts about the writing of that I found a bit odd, I was still interested enough. But now, to change to a book all about her brother, who we briefly met...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8006322">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41499332">
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 01 10:51:50 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 01 19:35:26 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I began this book I was disappointed that we'd be following Hem rather than his sister Maerad.  But then I stopped being disappointed, both because Hem is at least as interesting as Maerad, and because his part of the story is just as important as hers--in fact, it's fully half of the story.  W...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41499332">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16472498">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <date_added>Tue Feb 26 18:45:26 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Feb 26 19:18:02 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although not as enjoyable as the first two books inthe series this was a good book.  I found it a bit repetative and I just kept waiting for the poor boy to get something accomplished.  I have to say, though, that my love of the series is helped tremendously by Cadvan, who is not in this book at all...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16472498">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52427211">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 12 16:42:42 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 12 17:09:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutley loved this book. I was personelly getting pretty bored of Maerad, and switching to Hem's view was interesting. I got really caught up in this book, and it only took me a couple of hours to read. I didn't like how you started to love some of the characters, and they just die. Like, how m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52427211">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57649855">
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    <name><![CDATA[Nicol]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu May 28 14:09:47 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jun 02 08:23:50 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I knew that The Crow was going to follow Hem, so I was not so sure I would like it, I also feared that Hem would turn out to be evil. I loved this book, to follow Hem growing up and in the midst of war, was enthralling .  I really enjoyed the way his character matured, which was very different from ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57649855">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8015137">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Oct 21 06:45:41 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 27 14:14:22 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This installment in the Pellinor series is just as awesome as the first two (I was surprised to see it get so many poor reviews). In some ways, I thought this story was more brutal than The Naming and The Riddle, and the lessons at the end more harsh. Hem is a great character and I cannot wait to se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8015137">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39318555">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Dec 27 12:26:17 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was very disapointed in this third installment of the Pellinor Series.  First of all I couldn't believe that Maerad and Cadvan were left entirely out of the book! It was very difficult to transition to new undeveloped characters after I was so involved in the adventures of the other ones.  In the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39318555">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59525671">
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    <name><![CDATA[Megan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jun 15 15:59:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was about Hem, and at first I didn't really want that to happen, because I kind of liked Maerad better. One of my most favorite characters was Zelika. But then...SHE DIED. When I read that sentence, I was so shocked and sad I just sat there for a minute thinking, &quot;Zelika died? What? H...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59525671">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62855310">
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jul 11 07:41:15 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[ This is the second time I have tried reading this book, I did not give the book a fair chance the first time around. I loved this book, I thought that I would not like it as much b/c Maerad was not in it and I had grown so attached to reading about her, but I fell in love with the character Hem jus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62855310">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55025121">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kristine]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue May 05 10:18:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was disappointed in this book compared to the first two. It took me about 100 pages to realize that this was the brother's story and not the sister's. I ploughed through the first half of the book with the hope that it would get better and it did. I'm not starting the 4th book of the series which ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55025121">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77671353">
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    <name><![CDATA[Elbera]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is the most touching novel in this series. i was not convinced at first that it would be successful, considering it is written in Maerad's younger brother's perspective. I thought it would have been a bad choice on the author's choice to switch main characters. However, after reading it, I was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77671353">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76925776">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Nov 06 10:29:31 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Crow follows the adventures of Maerad's brother Hem after he and Saliman (who travel south) separate from Maerad and Cadvan (who travel north).  He is not as compelling a character for me and Maerad, the main character in the first two books of Pellinor.  The first half of the book is about the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76925776">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45979292">
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    <name><![CDATA[Heather]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wasn't looking forward to this third in the Pellinor series, because the action shifts away from Maerad and focuses on her long lost brother Hem and his mentor, Saliman, as they travel to Turbansk in the south, the first front in the fight against the nameless one. But, this is a great installment...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45979292">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Mar 02 16:14:25 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked venturing off the path of Maerad and Cadvan for a while. (partly because Cadvan is starting to get on my nerves) Anyway two new characters are introduced. One I wish we had seen more of and The other less. Irc was awesome but he hardly talked at all! Personally if I had a crow and I could ta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48044118">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Typical third book in a series of four.  I think this information is probably important, but I'm used to a female heroine and so to focus a whole book on her brother was a bit too much.  I wanted to know what was going on with Maerad and Cadvan.<br/><br/>So it was fine, and obviously both of them ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41906026">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat May 30 12:55:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My least favorite so far and I realized that it became that for me when the children's army comes into the picture. Hem has a different journey than does hsi sister and it is a much more graphic setting in about half the book.  However, the children's army scenes and descriptions are just heart brea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44739627">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Apr 20 16:23:48 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't like how the author switched narrators.  This book wasn't as good as the first two in th series, so I was a little disappointed. This book is darker than the other two, and gave me an insight on Hem's character.  I feel that this book was an important stepping stone for the series.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19498078">more...</a>]]></body>
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