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anispaperbacks's review
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Read this fairly quickly, I'm just reading this series in the background of my main book. I loved getting to know the Great Ga'hoole Tree and its exciting to see the story start to come together with some of the previous little details we've seen already! The only thing that bothers me is the like.. species supremecy stuff? Like with the tyto supremacy/purity, it's there for the plot so, whatever. But the other stuff like with birds that aren't owls or animals that aren't owls etc idk it just doesn't feel like it's... super necessary and it's just a little bit uncomfortable really. Like obviously not all the characters subscribe to these beliefs, at least not completely, but I feel like we would be able to have the world and the plot with the Pure Ones both exist as they are without having this other trope of anything that's not an owl be viewed as lesser by most owls. And also the fact that Mrs. P sorta suffers from house-elf syndrome where she's painted out to agree with that view. Not that nest maids are treated as badly as the majority of house-elves in Harry Potter, they are generally on a more equal standing, especially in Soren's family, but just the way yhat Mrs. P talks about the very notion of daring to compare oneself as a nest-maid snake to great and noble owls and that kind of stuff.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Kidnapping, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Abandonment, Classism, and Xenophobia
Minor: Medical content, Cannibalism, Violence, and Blood
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