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[Never] Feed the Crows
Amos
University is a strange experience, but I’ve managed to make it as weird as possible by accidentally befriending a flock of crows that like to hang out on campus. Anyone would have started feeding them if they knew how vengeful crows can be. I was worried about getting pooped on! I wasn’t going to find myself an enemy of the birds, but now I’m more like a friend. Ok, it might be more serious than that, but they’re the only creatures I can talk to about the professor on campus that I might have a teeny, tiny, itty bitty crush on, and they’re only a little judgmental about it.
(Never) Feed the Crows is an 18k word MM paranormal romance featuring the grumpy king of crows and his fated mate, a clumsy, sweet, shy college student who’s made friends with his murder. This was previously published as The Crow King’s Mate in Fated Mates: an MM Paranormal Romance Charity Anthology.
University is a strange experience, but I’ve managed to make it as weird as possible by accidentally befriending a flock of crows that like to hang out on campus. Anyone would have started feeding them if they knew how vengeful crows can be. I was worried about getting pooped on! I wasn’t going to find myself an enemy of the birds, but now I’m more like a friend. Ok, it might be more serious than that, but they’re the only creatures I can talk to about the professor on campus that I might have a teeny, tiny, itty bitty crush on, and they’re only a little judgmental about it.
(Never) Feed the Crows is an 18k word MM paranormal romance featuring the grumpy king of crows and his fated mate, a clumsy, sweet, shy college student who’s made friends with his murder. This was previously published as The Crow King’s Mate in Fated Mates: an MM Paranormal Romance Charity Anthology.
79 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 1, 2023
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Jennifer Cody
47 books705 followersJennifer Cody lives in Small Midwestern Town, USA, aka the sticks of Kansas. She has three kids and a Beardo she loves. Her sleep schedule is weird, so messages sent at midnight usually get answered relatively promptly. She reads all kinds of mm romance and urban fantasy, but her favorites are gay-for-you, small-town romances and over the top urban fantasy romances. Her own writing doesn’t always reflect her reading preferences, but mostly it does. She writes what she wants to read and reads extensively because she’s an addict. To books, obviously. And caffeine because sleep is for other people.
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August 16, 2024
Come into my bedroom, honey, what I got will make you spend money (Mary Jane, All Night Long –Mary J. Blige).
Hey, this book’s title is lying, because I think feeding crows is cool! Even if doing so leads to joining a group of sexy dudes that can all read your mind for some reason, it's a risk I'm willing to take. Seriously, I'll take on this sacrifice. Don't hold me back, I'll do it! Haha, we have fun here! Anyway, I didn’t like this. I mean, it was a perfectly readable story, but it was a little like Malum Discordiae by Ashlyn Drewek… if that book cut out all the edginess and bogged itself down by an annoying main character, a boring love-interest, and an abundance of odd narrative choices. So, not at all. Though to be fair, this book doesn’t want to be dark and sexy, it wants to be funny and sexy! That’s a bit harder to achieve successfully, unfortunately. Maybe I’m just craving something more messed up, but I went into this thinking the setting and initial premise was so smart and lends itself so perfectly to a darker atmosphere that I can’t help but feel disappointed that it didn’t seem to focus anything other than how thirsty the main character was. The thing is, I wish I could say that I enjoy humorous books and that I go out of my way to find something by David Sedaris on the shelves at Barnes & Noble, but let’s be real, that’d be a bald face lie. I know humor is subjective, but I tend to go stone-face-mode whenever I feel like a book is trying to make me laugh. Of course, that doesn't always mean that I'll hate it simply because it's trying to be funny (I've seen Deadpool and Wolverine and enjoyed it despite not howling with laughter at every Ryan Reynolds one-liner), but it does mean I'll look at other aspects a littler closer. Like looking through a magnifying glass! And sadly, I wasn't too impressed with everything else either. It didn’t help that this is another one of those books where everyone is super-hot and perfect looking. I know I should expect this kind of stuff by now, but can you really blame me!? There’s not even a shirtless dude on the cover, how was I supposed to know? And look, my bi-awakening was when Link took his shirt off in Twilight Princess (it was my first “oh… okay.” moment. Another being George of the Jungle), but what made him stand out from the rest was the fact that other than him and couple of other folks, the citizens of Hyrule are actually kind of freaky looking. I don’t know, my point is that I’d like this book a lot more if the main character, Amos, was the only hot guy. Would that make the whole thing a self-indulgent mess? Sure, probably, but also... good. I’m long past the point of caring about being embarrassed about liking the kinds of books I like. Besides, at the very least, this slight change might have made my reading experience a little more tolerable and distracted me from just how unrelentingly quirky the dialogue is. I’m not lying when I tell you that Amos constantly says shit like “gawd” and “Ohmigod” every other sentence! Every page is littered with his constant word vomit. Every. Single. Page. It's too much, I can't stand it anymore! He joins a murder of crows? After a certain point I wouldn’t have minded if he was murdered by crows!
Maybe I’m going too hard (like Amos constantly was hehe), because I can’t stress enough that this is a silly book. Funny for some, but nothing more than a juvenile thirst fest for others (me). First of all, the love-interest in this is named professor Corvus Bloom (really?) who’s also a dancer by night (really, really?), and I found that I really (really, really, really) couldn’t get over how silly everything about this was. With a name like Corvus Bloom, I’d be more surprised if he couldn’t shapeshift into a crow. Though I guess he is perfectly named because Amos is such a unashamed, bottom that I swear I could hear the soft hum of Troye Sivan’s “Bloom” every time he’d be drooling over this guy. I guess... good for him or whatever, but gawd, was he thirsty! Not to constantly harp on my disappointment about the “everybody’s hot” thing, but I think Mr. Bloom was such a missed opportunity because he could have been portrayed as sexy in a myriad of other ways. Why not give him a Mr. Darcy vibe? Maybe give him smart and charming dialogue to contrast with Amos? I don’t know, I’m just throwing stuff out there, because otherwise he’s just another generic, grunting, love-interest that you could find in every other one of these romances. Commanding, possessive, and blunt? Yeah sorry, but we've all been here before. Honestly, these traits have never really done anything for me. Any time a book tries the whole “alpha male,” “you do what I tell you to do when I tell you to do it.” I can't help but cringe away. A dude talking like that? Now that's funny. And finally, why, why, why is he shaved smoother and balder than Sean Evans Hot Ones!? You’re telling me that a man who turns into a crow doesn’t have a little something, something, going on anywhere!? Ugh. Anyway, talking about him makes me angry, so I’m going to end this in a few. My biggest problem with [Never] Feed the Crows is that the “Haha, isn’t this funny? LAUGH AT HOW FUNNY IT IS!” tone of this story is constantly at odds with the actual events that transpire within the narrative. For example, the book has to pretend like having a bunch of crows following you around isn’t the coolest thing ever just to justify Amos being seen as a loser on campus, and this is ignoring the fact that people in college hardly even give a shit about popularity. I know that from a story perspective, his isolation is supposed to help alleviate the weirdness of his super quick and alarming joining of the crow family, making it heartwarming rather than really creepy, but I don't think it sticks the landing. If I were just going off of the premise alone, it sounds more like Amos is trapped in a Mr. Beast video.! Like, is this not a horror story (I see Mr. Beast videos as fitting in the horror genre)? Because all I saw were the red flags, and there was some serious jumping through hoops to make it so none of the characters in the story happened to see them. In my opinion, if the premise relies so heavily on this many flimsy story excuses, then the whole ass narrative probably needs a bit of a retooling. A genre shift to go along with the shapeshifting, perhaps? Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.
Hey, this book’s title is lying, because I think feeding crows is cool! Even if doing so leads to joining a group of sexy dudes that can all read your mind for some reason, it's a risk I'm willing to take. Seriously, I'll take on this sacrifice. Don't hold me back, I'll do it! Haha, we have fun here! Anyway, I didn’t like this. I mean, it was a perfectly readable story, but it was a little like Malum Discordiae by Ashlyn Drewek… if that book cut out all the edginess and bogged itself down by an annoying main character, a boring love-interest, and an abundance of odd narrative choices. So, not at all. Though to be fair, this book doesn’t want to be dark and sexy, it wants to be funny and sexy! That’s a bit harder to achieve successfully, unfortunately. Maybe I’m just craving something more messed up, but I went into this thinking the setting and initial premise was so smart and lends itself so perfectly to a darker atmosphere that I can’t help but feel disappointed that it didn’t seem to focus anything other than how thirsty the main character was. The thing is, I wish I could say that I enjoy humorous books and that I go out of my way to find something by David Sedaris on the shelves at Barnes & Noble, but let’s be real, that’d be a bald face lie. I know humor is subjective, but I tend to go stone-face-mode whenever I feel like a book is trying to make me laugh. Of course, that doesn't always mean that I'll hate it simply because it's trying to be funny (I've seen Deadpool and Wolverine and enjoyed it despite not howling with laughter at every Ryan Reynolds one-liner), but it does mean I'll look at other aspects a littler closer. Like looking through a magnifying glass! And sadly, I wasn't too impressed with everything else either. It didn’t help that this is another one of those books where everyone is super-hot and perfect looking. I know I should expect this kind of stuff by now, but can you really blame me!? There’s not even a shirtless dude on the cover, how was I supposed to know? And look, my bi-awakening was when Link took his shirt off in Twilight Princess (it was my first “oh… okay.” moment. Another being George of the Jungle), but what made him stand out from the rest was the fact that other than him and couple of other folks, the citizens of Hyrule are actually kind of freaky looking. I don’t know, my point is that I’d like this book a lot more if the main character, Amos, was the only hot guy. Would that make the whole thing a self-indulgent mess? Sure, probably, but also... good. I’m long past the point of caring about being embarrassed about liking the kinds of books I like. Besides, at the very least, this slight change might have made my reading experience a little more tolerable and distracted me from just how unrelentingly quirky the dialogue is. I’m not lying when I tell you that Amos constantly says shit like “gawd” and “Ohmigod” every other sentence! Every page is littered with his constant word vomit. Every. Single. Page. It's too much, I can't stand it anymore! He joins a murder of crows? After a certain point I wouldn’t have minded if he was murdered by crows!
Maybe I’m going too hard (like Amos constantly was hehe), because I can’t stress enough that this is a silly book. Funny for some, but nothing more than a juvenile thirst fest for others (me). First of all, the love-interest in this is named professor Corvus Bloom (really?) who’s also a dancer by night (really, really?), and I found that I really (really, really, really) couldn’t get over how silly everything about this was. With a name like Corvus Bloom, I’d be more surprised if he couldn’t shapeshift into a crow. Though I guess he is perfectly named because Amos is such a unashamed, bottom that I swear I could hear the soft hum of Troye Sivan’s “Bloom” every time he’d be drooling over this guy. I guess... good for him or whatever, but gawd, was he thirsty! Not to constantly harp on my disappointment about the “everybody’s hot” thing, but I think Mr. Bloom was such a missed opportunity because he could have been portrayed as sexy in a myriad of other ways. Why not give him a Mr. Darcy vibe? Maybe give him smart and charming dialogue to contrast with Amos? I don’t know, I’m just throwing stuff out there, because otherwise he’s just another generic, grunting, love-interest that you could find in every other one of these romances. Commanding, possessive, and blunt? Yeah sorry, but we've all been here before. Honestly, these traits have never really done anything for me. Any time a book tries the whole “alpha male,” “you do what I tell you to do when I tell you to do it.” I can't help but cringe away. A dude talking like that? Now that's funny. And finally, why, why, why is he shaved smoother and balder than Sean Evans Hot Ones!? You’re telling me that a man who turns into a crow doesn’t have a little something, something, going on anywhere!? Ugh. Anyway, talking about him makes me angry, so I’m going to end this in a few. My biggest problem with [Never] Feed the Crows is that the “Haha, isn’t this funny? LAUGH AT HOW FUNNY IT IS!” tone of this story is constantly at odds with the actual events that transpire within the narrative. For example, the book has to pretend like having a bunch of crows following you around isn’t the coolest thing ever just to justify Amos being seen as a loser on campus, and this is ignoring the fact that people in college hardly even give a shit about popularity. I know that from a story perspective, his isolation is supposed to help alleviate the weirdness of his super quick and alarming joining of the crow family, making it heartwarming rather than really creepy, but I don't think it sticks the landing. If I were just going off of the premise alone, it sounds more like Amos is trapped in a Mr. Beast video.! Like, is this not a horror story (I see Mr. Beast videos as fitting in the horror genre)? Because all I saw were the red flags, and there was some serious jumping through hoops to make it so none of the characters in the story happened to see them. In my opinion, if the premise relies so heavily on this many flimsy story excuses, then the whole ass narrative probably needs a bit of a retooling. A genre shift to go along with the shapeshifting, perhaps? Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.
February 4, 2024
Who doesn’t want to be mated to the crow king.
January 15, 2024
January 2024
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Aww. So cute. I'm a little gutted this one wasn't longer, but on the whole it was adorable. A murder of crows with the crow king getting a fated mate. Teacher/not-his-student romance. I loved the crows, nice there was a real/shifter mix thrown in. The mind reading was a little cheat but interesting. I liked that Amos kept thinking he was imagining Corvin's voice. Looking forward to more from this one.
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Aww. So cute. I'm a little gutted this one wasn't longer, but on the whole it was adorable. A murder of crows with the crow king getting a fated mate. Teacher/not-his-student romance. I loved the crows, nice there was a real/shifter mix thrown in. The mind reading was a little cheat but interesting. I liked that Amos kept thinking he was imagining Corvin's voice. Looking forward to more from this one.
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March 7, 2024
What in the world....
First off, I really like fated mates/shifters/instalove and all that so let me tell y'all that I was so let down with the writing on this one. It was like someone else wrote it, it was that bad.
Second off, I really loved the hook of how the king of the crows got their fated mate. Totes awesome.
Third off (don't judge me), Amos's roommate was wonderful. I was so hoping that Jacob did get with him.
Fourth off, what the neck was with Amos not noticing that a whole person was there for over a year? Were we to believe that he was that young and dumb?
Overall, I loved the gist of the story, but the writing was not done at all like the previous books.
First off, I really like fated mates/shifters/instalove and all that so let me tell y'all that I was so let down with the writing on this one. It was like someone else wrote it, it was that bad.
Second off, I really loved the hook of how the king of the crows got their fated mate. Totes awesome.
Third off (don't judge me), Amos's roommate was wonderful. I was so hoping that Jacob did get with him.
Fourth off, what the neck was with Amos not noticing that a whole person was there for over a year? Were we to believe that he was that young and dumb?
Overall, I loved the gist of the story, but the writing was not done at all like the previous books.
January 25, 2024
Short
Only 80% of the pages is the titled book, the other 20% is the beginning of the adventure orc series. We get no real background of the main characters. We only get very brief introductions to background characters. We go from awkward inner monologues to a committed relationship with a blink and not a second more. Why does he dance? Never explained. Why become a professor? Never explained. What degree is Amos pursuing? Never explained. A professor dating a former student, who is still enrolled in the college would usually warrant a caution. But nope. Amos never questions anything, just follows along more like a duckling than a crow's mate. There's a couple background threads touched on but immediately dropped. It's so short it's more a prequel than anything else. If it's the foundation of a new series it needs more. More substance, more heart, more moments of bonding, hell any moments of bonding that aren't bedroom scenes. All these books labeled romance lately are not romantic. They're just erotica presented as romance. I wish authors would be more honest. Or at least label them erotic romances. And actually include some romantic elements. Where's the wooing? Crows bring gifts, Amos never got any, not from the murder, not from Corvin. He should have baskets of shinies from feeding them for 2 years.
Only 80% of the pages is the titled book, the other 20% is the beginning of the adventure orc series. We get no real background of the main characters. We only get very brief introductions to background characters. We go from awkward inner monologues to a committed relationship with a blink and not a second more. Why does he dance? Never explained. Why become a professor? Never explained. What degree is Amos pursuing? Never explained. A professor dating a former student, who is still enrolled in the college would usually warrant a caution. But nope. Amos never questions anything, just follows along more like a duckling than a crow's mate. There's a couple background threads touched on but immediately dropped. It's so short it's more a prequel than anything else. If it's the foundation of a new series it needs more. More substance, more heart, more moments of bonding, hell any moments of bonding that aren't bedroom scenes. All these books labeled romance lately are not romantic. They're just erotica presented as romance. I wish authors would be more honest. Or at least label them erotic romances. And actually include some romantic elements. Where's the wooing? Crows bring gifts, Amos never got any, not from the murder, not from Corvin. He should have baskets of shinies from feeding them for 2 years.
February 28, 2024
I tore through this and now I'm sad there isn't already a next story to jump into.
February 4, 2024
4.25 stars
That was really cute! More please -- I need to see lots of crows finding their mates as soon as possible!
That was really cute! More please -- I need to see lots of crows finding their mates as soon as possible!
January 19, 2024
This was such a fun short story and it was one of my favorites from the Fated Mates Charity Anthology. I happy it's been rereleased as it's own thing and that there will eventually be more written in this world.
This was such a fun take on a shifter world. I loe how the murder (of crows) is organized and built and I love how the characters are all unique and fun. Amos and Corvin are so much fun. Amos is a perfect level of adorkable and awkward and Corvin is a perfect amount of grumpy and sweet. I can't wait for more books because I want to see more of their HEA and see others get their own HEAs.
This was such a fun take on a shifter world. I loe how the murder (of crows) is organized and built and I love how the characters are all unique and fun. Amos and Corvin are so much fun. Amos is a perfect level of adorkable and awkward and Corvin is a perfect amount of grumpy and sweet. I can't wait for more books because I want to see more of their HEA and see others get their own HEAs.
May 15, 2024
It was too short!
That Amos has a Bella blindspot is hilarious and she totally deserves it for being a mean person.
Hopefully the next book will be about of Jacob and Brigs 🤩🥰🥰🤩🤩
Fun fact: I didn't know that a group of crows is called a murder. (please keep in mind that English is not my native language) 🤣🤣🤣 For some reason I find that that to be funny.
Anyways, great bite size story.
That Amos has a Bella blindspot is hilarious and she totally deserves it for being a mean person.
Hopefully the next book will be about of Jacob and Brigs 🤩🥰🥰🤩🤩
Fun fact: I didn't know that a group of crows is called a murder. (please keep in mind that English is not my native language) 🤣🤣🤣 For some reason I find that that to be funny.
Anyways, great bite size story.
January 16, 2024
Good start
A good start to a new series from Jennofer Cody! Cannot wait to see how she takes this murder of crows finding their mates, and thus, ever expanding family gets to be happy and flourish!
Love her take on the crows adopting him before really anyone else has a say showing they know more than everyone else does! Great quick read.
A good start to a new series from Jennofer Cody! Cannot wait to see how she takes this murder of crows finding their mates, and thus, ever expanding family gets to be happy and flourish!
Love her take on the crows adopting him before really anyone else has a say showing they know more than everyone else does! Great quick read.
January 19, 2024
3/5 stars
May 15, 2025
3.75 stars
This was good short story
I liked the premise of it. Having the shifter be a crow and way the crow mirder worked was fascinating.
I enjoyed that Amos got to know the crows, he even knew their crow names well before he knew they were shifters.
I liked Amos and how he made friends with the crows on campus. He treated them with respect and friendship before he knew who they actually were. The fact that he was a little bit of an outcast was sas but he did have a great friendship with his roommate, I want to see more of him.
I didn’t feel like I got a feel for Corvin though as while we were in his head for a couple of chapters it was more to see how he was reading Amos’s internal dialogue. I also didn’t get why the author had him as a pole dancer. Yes it got them together quicker but the guy was a professor in a college town, and the students went to watch him dance, he was the main attraction and he was alpha of the murder, surely he wouldn’t need to dance.
Regardless it was an easy quick read that was enjoyable. I want to see more from the crows
This was good short story
I liked the premise of it. Having the shifter be a crow and way the crow mirder worked was fascinating.
I enjoyed that Amos got to know the crows, he even knew their crow names well before he knew they were shifters.
I liked Amos and how he made friends with the crows on campus. He treated them with respect and friendship before he knew who they actually were. The fact that he was a little bit of an outcast was sas but he did have a great friendship with his roommate, I want to see more of him.
I didn’t feel like I got a feel for Corvin though as while we were in his head for a couple of chapters it was more to see how he was reading Amos’s internal dialogue. I also didn’t get why the author had him as a pole dancer. Yes it got them together quicker but the guy was a professor in a college town, and the students went to watch him dance, he was the main attraction and he was alpha of the murder, surely he wouldn’t need to dance.
Regardless it was an easy quick read that was enjoyable. I want to see more from the crows
March 9, 2024
This could have been REALLY good if it wasn’t so short. The characters were surprisingly interesting but I just feel like this could’ve been an amazing series if it was longer since there were so many characters to choose from. It could’ve pulled like a gay Ice Planet Barbarians but with shapeshifter crows. Anyway, 3 stars for shortness and the main character using “Gawd” and “Omigosh” too many times.
January 18, 2024
Short and sweet
I'd read this before but was happy to do a re-read. There's no added content from memory.
I hope the author writes some of the stories from the group
I'd read this before but was happy to do a re-read. There's no added content from memory.
I hope the author writes some of the stories from the group
February 13, 2024
Really like this one but it’s too short and I have questions 😅😂.
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February 16, 2024I could have read that for significantly longer than is reasonable
October 13, 2024
MM romance fall bingo prompt: Animal on the cover
February 20, 2024
Very short, fast paced, Cute, fun, Found family. Brigs is an amazing friend and is very supportive of Amos. Was Jacob his mate though? Wish we can get more.
March 1, 2024
Beyond Cute
This story was fast passed and absolute adorable. Amos’s affinity for the crows and his rambling monologues is just great.
This story was fast passed and absolute adorable. Amos’s affinity for the crows and his rambling monologues is just great.
March 4, 2024
Short and sweet
If you're kinda burnt out emotionally, because of family or exes or whatever, this is perfect for a sweet short pick-me-up. Great for a quick boost of well-written happily ever after after a long day at work or an unpleasant encounter with someone who's horrible to you. Like a hug, but a book. Solid sweet and awkward x mysterious and stoic coupling. Excellent.
The one and only downside (for me personally, as a matter of personal preference):
Bummer the author didn't release several books in this series at once. I usually read ~250-450pg books so this feels a little potato-chip-y to me, like you can never have just one, except this one is the only book in the series published so far. But it all depends on your reading habits, and this author writes such great stories I make exceptions to my length preferences for their books. Drives me a wee bit bonkers but the sweetness is worth it.
If you're kinda burnt out emotionally, because of family or exes or whatever, this is perfect for a sweet short pick-me-up. Great for a quick boost of well-written happily ever after after a long day at work or an unpleasant encounter with someone who's horrible to you. Like a hug, but a book. Solid sweet and awkward x mysterious and stoic coupling. Excellent.
The one and only downside (for me personally, as a matter of personal preference):
Bummer the author didn't release several books in this series at once. I usually read ~250-450pg books so this feels a little potato-chip-y to me, like you can never have just one, except this one is the only book in the series published so far. But it all depends on your reading habits, and this author writes such great stories I make exceptions to my length preferences for their books. Drives me a wee bit bonkers but the sweetness is worth it.
February 19, 2024
4.5⭐️ 2🌶️
MOOD: lighthearted, funny, hopeful
TROPES: teacher/student, fated mates, found family
GENRES: paranormal, shifters, lgbtq+
FAV QUOTE: "Mouths are weird, right? Like, every mouth has two corners, but when you open your mouth it's round. Mouths are ovals with corners. Humans are weird."
MAIN CHARACTERS: Amos and Corvin Bloom
Amos is the best part of this story. He has depth and humor and a very active inner dialogue. In contrast, Corvin is a very one-dimensional character and pretty much serves as eye candy for most of the story. Even Brigs and some of the other crows get more page time and hits at possible growth. There is some steamy inner dialogue and a spicy scene plus the Murder is a really interesting take on found family.
CW: mentions of homophobia
MOOD: lighthearted, funny, hopeful
TROPES: teacher/student, fated mates, found family
GENRES: paranormal, shifters, lgbtq+
FAV QUOTE: "Mouths are weird, right? Like, every mouth has two corners, but when you open your mouth it's round. Mouths are ovals with corners. Humans are weird."
MAIN CHARACTERS: Amos and Corvin Bloom
Amos is the best part of this story. He has depth and humor and a very active inner dialogue. In contrast, Corvin is a very one-dimensional character and pretty much serves as eye candy for most of the story. Even Brigs and some of the other crows get more page time and hits at possible growth. There is some steamy inner dialogue and a spicy scene plus the Murder is a really interesting take on found family.
CW: mentions of homophobia
April 4, 2024
I had avoided reading this thinking I wouldn’t be interested, but I was very wrong.
The crow shifters were unique in my opinion. I ended up really adoring the relationship introduced to us between Amos and the crows in the beginning. Made it easier to move through the quick paced story. Only being 60 some pages there’s a lot that needs to happen. I think it evolved easily enough and that beginning really gave me the chance to fall into it. I even loved the introduction of the professor and Amos being so clumsy and silly.
His inner monologue was also endearing. I do have to say I am glad it was only a short story because I honestly probably wouldn’t be able to handle his rambling for a full length novel 😬
Overall, really enjoyed this!
The crow shifters were unique in my opinion. I ended up really adoring the relationship introduced to us between Amos and the crows in the beginning. Made it easier to move through the quick paced story. Only being 60 some pages there’s a lot that needs to happen. I think it evolved easily enough and that beginning really gave me the chance to fall into it. I even loved the introduction of the professor and Amos being so clumsy and silly.
His inner monologue was also endearing. I do have to say I am glad it was only a short story because I honestly probably wouldn’t be able to handle his rambling for a full length novel 😬
Overall, really enjoyed this!
January 16, 2024
(Never) Feed The Crows is an excellent short story. I loved it when it was in the Fated Mates anthology and it was just as good in this reread. Amos is such a sweet, genuine guy. Corvin has that alpha feel - bossy and a little anger problem but he's working on it. Mostly. There’s a lot of fun side characters I’d love to read more about including the other crows and Briggs the roommate. Especially since the rest of the shifters in the murder are going to be finding their fates mates, whoever they are.
Tropes: strong found family feel, fated mates = instant overwhelming attraction, shifters
Tropes: strong found family feel, fated mates = instant overwhelming attraction, shifters
April 4, 2024
dont ask, sometimes i just dont wanna use my brain😭🙏
i would have enjoyed this a lot more if it was longer but it was still cute
i would have enjoyed this a lot more if it was longer but it was still cute
July 21, 2024
amos saying sorry to the seatbelt in case it decides to stop working it’s so relatable sigh he’s just like me
June 1, 2025
Luckily this novella was short.
Amos is a nerdy 20 year old geek at the university. He's gay, shares his dorm room with a straight but accepting jock (Brig), and he's known as the Crow Guy. Because he wanted to make friends with the crows, Amos has spending a lot of time and money feeding them. One night Brig shanghais Amos into going to a local club so they can watch the hottest professor on campus, Professor Corwin Bloom, dance for the audience. Corwin is described as black bearded, long locks, and muscled like a body builder.
After the dance, Corwin invites Amos to come home with him. "Spoilers!" he tells Amos when the younger man asks. Home is a four story lodge filled with people and birds. It doesn't take long for Amos to learn this is a crow community, mixed natural crows with crow shifters cohabitate in the murder, AND Corwin is their alpha. Amos has been inducted into the murder by the natural crows to be Corwin's fated mate. Not only that but Amos and Corwin now share a mental bond that allows each to know what the other's thinking at all times.
This was a bit of an eyeroll, between Amos' naivety and all the tropes involved. Not my jam but it's not the worst paranormal shifter story I've read. (That was Twilight.) At least it was short, kept it amusing, and kept things simple.
2.5 stars.
Amos is a nerdy 20 year old geek at the university. He's gay, shares his dorm room with a straight but accepting jock (Brig), and he's known as the Crow Guy. Because he wanted to make friends with the crows, Amos has spending a lot of time and money feeding them. One night Brig shanghais Amos into going to a local club so they can watch the hottest professor on campus, Professor Corwin Bloom, dance for the audience. Corwin is described as black bearded, long locks, and muscled like a body builder.
After the dance, Corwin invites Amos to come home with him. "Spoilers!" he tells Amos when the younger man asks. Home is a four story lodge filled with people and birds. It doesn't take long for Amos to learn this is a crow community, mixed natural crows with crow shifters cohabitate in the murder, AND Corwin is their alpha. Amos has been inducted into the murder by the natural crows to be Corwin's fated mate. Not only that but Amos and Corwin now share a mental bond that allows each to know what the other's thinking at all times.
This was a bit of an eyeroll, between Amos' naivety and all the tropes involved. Not my jam but it's not the worst paranormal shifter story I've read. (That was Twilight.) At least it was short, kept it amusing, and kept things simple.
2.5 stars.
June 12, 2024
Huh. Not what I've been expecting. I only gave it 3 stars because I love the idea of crow shifters, feeding birds and making them your friends. But this book was not for me. It jumped straight into the fated mates part, with the couple BARELY interacting once, before Corvus took Amos home and told him about shifters. Literally one conversation. If it can be called that, which...not really. Waaaay too short and waaaay too fast. I mean, I love fated mates and all that, but to tell someone they'll die if they don't move in with them in a month and that they can never leave? To heck with fated mates, I'd be outta there in a heartbeat (massive crush on the guy or not) Some things were ridiculous in the extreme, made my eyes roll off into the sunset *sigh*
Not for me. And I'll probably not read the next ones either, if they'll be any. Unless they get longer, not as rushed and ridiculous? Maybe. No promises.
Not for me. And I'll probably not read the next ones either, if they'll be any. Unless they get longer, not as rushed and ridiculous? Maybe. No promises.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 2, 2024
Will you like this story?
Do you like age gap romances with no angst and lots of sex? What about sexy alpha men who want to take care of their fated mate? If you answered "yes" to these questions, you'll probably like this story better than I did.
I found it a little bit icky. It has an experienced, bossy older man telling a 20 year old boy with social anxiety that they belong together, and then they are. There is no romance. Corvin says the relationship is equal, but there is nothing equal about it. He brings everything to the relationship: magic, experience, money and family.
I prefer more equal relationships, and some conflict in my stories. Three stars because Jennifer Cody is a great writer, so even though this wasn't my thing, it was well written.
Do you like age gap romances with no angst and lots of sex? What about sexy alpha men who want to take care of their fated mate? If you answered "yes" to these questions, you'll probably like this story better than I did.
I found it a little bit icky. It has an experienced, bossy older man telling a 20 year old boy with social anxiety that they belong together, and then they are. There is no romance. Corvin says the relationship is equal, but there is nothing equal about it. He brings everything to the relationship: magic, experience, money and family.
I prefer more equal relationships, and some conflict in my stories. Three stars because Jennifer Cody is a great writer, so even though this wasn't my thing, it was well written.
February 12, 2024
Amos
University is a strange experience, but I’ve managed to make it as weird as possible by accidentally befriending a flock of crows that like to hang out on campus. Anyone would have started feeding them if they knew how vengeful crows can be. I was worried about getting pooped on! I wasn’t going to find myself an enemy of the birds, but now I’m more like a friend. Ok, it might be more serious than that, but they’re the only creatures I can talk to about the professor on campus that I might have a teeny, tiny, itty bitty crush on, and they’re only a little judgmental about it.
Heather's Notes
Cute short story about crow shifters. I would have liked a little more, but ....short story you take what you can get.
University is a strange experience, but I’ve managed to make it as weird as possible by accidentally befriending a flock of crows that like to hang out on campus. Anyone would have started feeding them if they knew how vengeful crows can be. I was worried about getting pooped on! I wasn’t going to find myself an enemy of the birds, but now I’m more like a friend. Ok, it might be more serious than that, but they’re the only creatures I can talk to about the professor on campus that I might have a teeny, tiny, itty bitty crush on, and they’re only a little judgmental about it.
Heather's Notes
Cute short story about crow shifters. I would have liked a little more, but ....short story you take what you can get.
January 16, 2024
Rating: 3.25 Stars
POV(s): Dual—First Person
Relationship: M/M
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
❥
Funny, lighthearted, but extremely shallow. I would have liked to see some character depth.
❥
Title: “(Never) Feed the Crows (Corvin's Crows #1)” by Jennifer Cody
Interconnected Series: Yes
Standalone: Yes
Cliffhanger: No
HEA:
Triggers:
Third Act Breakup: No
Tags/Tropes:
➢ Fast Burn
➢ Fated Mates
➢ Human x Shifter (crow)
➢ Novella
POV(s): Dual—First Person
Relationship: M/M
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
❥
Funny, lighthearted, but extremely shallow. I would have liked to see some character depth.
❥
Title: “(Never) Feed the Crows (Corvin's Crows #1)” by Jennifer Cody
Interconnected Series: Yes
Standalone: Yes
Cliffhanger: No
HEA:
Triggers:
Third Act Breakup: No
Tags/Tropes:
➢ Fast Burn
➢ Fated Mates
➢ Human x Shifter (crow)
➢ Novella
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