Review: The Merciful Crow

The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I first heard about Margaret Owen as an artist - more specifically, for her creations of the first official art of L.L. McKinney's Alice, and also one "whoops my hand slipped - A WHOLE BUNCH" sketch of Leia strangling Jabba the Hutt. Now, of course, she's got a book that's pretty well a work of art in and of itself, purely on the strength of its fantasy world-building. Comparable to Leigh Bardugo in its Russian-esque second-world st...