Throughout second quarter I’ve read The Crow, Lord of The Flies, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Glass Swallow, Hugo Cabret, Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist, and Night.
The Crow is by Alison Croggon, and is 483 pages. It is the third book in the Pellinor series. I picked up this series at the Blake school library, but I’ve never heard of the story before. Mrs. Post told me that this was a popular series a few year ago, but has remained untouched ever since. I was pleasantly surprised to find a fantasy series that was NOT focused around romance, and I loved the details and complex, woven plot. The Crow was the only book in the series that was from a different perspective from the other books. The book is about Maerad’s brother, who leaves his trouble at Barding school to help the war against the Nameless one. He ends up playing as a spy in the child armies, whom have been influenced by drugs in their food. Through his travels he tries to save Zelika who had blown her cover being a spy in the child army. He deals with stealing food, concealing spells, and training with children being controlled by evil sorcerers. Tension builds as people get more desperate. It showed me many things however, like the pain in losing something beautiful. People knew that they were going to die, but they fought in honor in the war.
This series is a great, well written, fantasy series. I recommend this book to Middle schoolers and high schoolers.
(P.S. I'm sorry if I didn't post by 9 pm! I came home at 9:30 because of the Knowledge Bowl meet D: )
I have read Lord of the Flies too and I loved the book. The Crow looks like a very interesting book and I might want to look for it. -Brandon
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