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“Age would have taken her if they’d just had the sense to leave well enough alone.”

Daughter of Crows by Mark Lawrence

June 3, 2026 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

More fantasy with older protagonists please! With Daughter of Crows, Mark Lawrence is giving us a new trilogy—one that is not meant to be tied back to his previous works. Despite this, I thought we might end up covering some old ground when I first read the synopsis: a magical academy that exists to train young women to become killers? Doesn’t that sound an awful lot like his Book of the Ancestor series? Thankfully, this turned out not to be the case; the two stories […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, epic fantasy, fantasy with older protagonists, grim dark, Mark Lawrence

LittlePlat's CBR18 Review No:9 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, epic fantasy, fantasy with older protagonists, grim dark, Mark Lawrence ·
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