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About murderofcrows

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Avid reader of fantasy, sci fi and science non-fiction.Fan of all corvids. Feeder of crows

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One body holds a universe

Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

March 14, 2021 by murderofcrows Leave a Comment

  Home is a feeling. That’s a line in the beautifully written Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead, a Two Spirit, Oji-Cree author. But it’s also something of a manifesto for Jonny, an indigiqueer young man whose physical body carries all the love, pain and connections to land and people in his life. Like a beautiful hermit crab, he builds a shell to protect himself from homophobia, from feeling the generations of pain in his family, from loving too much. And that same shell is bedecked with […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Fiction, First Nations, Indigiqueer, Joshua Whitehead, LGTBQ, Two Spirit

murderofcrows's CBR13 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Fiction, First Nations, Indigiqueer, Joshua Whitehead, LGTBQ, Two Spirit ·
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Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

March 9, 2021 by murderofcrows Leave a Comment

For everyone who ever felt that some other world was their home, that the rules and ways of this one made no sense, Every Heart a Doorway offers a waystation for the weary traveller on their search. Eleanor West runs a home for wayward children, mostly girls but a few boys too who have tumbled back through doors from worlds that felt like home to find themselves unwillingly returned to this one. Each feels a terrible grief that they had, just for a time, belonged somewhere only […]

https://cannonballread.com/2021/03/every-heart-a-doorway-murderofcrows/

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, LGBTQ, Seanan McGuire, YA

murderofcrows's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, LGBTQ, Seanan McGuire, YA ·
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Paladins, Clay Men and Bears, Oh My!

Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel Book 2) by T. Kingfisher

February 28, 2021 by murderofcrows 2 Comments

  What do you get when you combine fantasy, a sort of murder mystery/horror and romance with a healthy dash of humour? Why you get the latest book by T. Kingfisher, Paladin’s Strength.  In the second book in the series, which continues in the same world as Paladin’s Grace, the lay sister Clara and Paladin Istvhan solve a growing horrific problem in headless bodies and murderous clay golems while realising they might actually have feelings for each other. Istvhan is from the same order of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: t kingfisher

murderofcrows's CBR13 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: t kingfisher ·
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What intelligence means to a human, spider and octopus

Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

February 25, 2021 by murderofcrows 2 Comments

In this sequel, we jump back and forth across time and watch the beginnings of new sentience both planned and unplanned by humans and its inevitable fallout discovered aeons later by the first book’s descendents. And true to how things always go awry, nothing is ever what humans (or any sentient species) plan to begin with and that’s what saves us in the end. Tchaikovsky will ultimately assure us this inability to be totally in charge of our destiny is a good thing, though no […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Adrian Tchaikovsky

murderofcrows's CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Adrian Tchaikovsky ·
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We’re the aliens, man

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

February 25, 2021 by murderofcrows 3 Comments

I was raised on the optimistic technology sci fi of Arthur C. Clarke who believed our future was in the stars and that technology was our only way there. But he often threaded his optimism with warning of our hubris and innate inability to understand a mind truly alien to ours. I’ve waited to read a successor that expanded on these twin stars of hope and wariness. Children of Time succeeds and then carries it into realms I couldn’t conceive, ones I can’t even fully understand […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Adrian Tchaikovsky

murderofcrows's CBR13 Review No:3 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Adrian Tchaikovsky ·
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