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The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen

8 reviews

sleeping_roses's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The perfect combination of plot- and charachter-driven development! I love this the way I love Six of Crows.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Genocide, Pandemic/Epidemic, Police brutality, Murder, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Death, Death of parent, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Torture

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Infidelity

marys_books's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Good book but sometimes the choice of words was a little odd, like betwixt instead of between

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Classism

Moderate: Vomit and Violence

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

LOVE. THIS. BOOK. Owen's worldbuilding is incredible, the characters are well-developed, and the social issues are deftly handled. I do have one major question left niggling at the back of my mind, but I'll wait until I read The Faithless Hawk (which I hope will happen soon) before voicing it, in the hopes that Owen addresses it there and I can stop worrying about it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Terminal illness, Death, Body horror, Classism, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Vomit, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcohol

euthanasia; betrayal

guardianofthebookshelf's review

adventurous tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Murder, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Vomit

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

One of the few fantasy books where I can safely say that the world building was super poor and boring? I didn't really care for the characters, nor did I find the plot that interesting or surprising at all 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Violence, and Vomit

shadowspinner's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Hate crime

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Death of parent

yvonne_cl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Torture, Violence, Vomit, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

micheala's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is one of those books that I bought as soon as it came out (back in July of 2019) and never picked up. I bought it during the time that I was starting to no longer enjoy YA because I was consistently picking ones that I didn't like the tropes and thought that the main characters were all too stupid to live. 

The main character Fie is part of the Crow caste, the only people who can't get the Sinner Plague and thus are the ones that deal with Mercy Killing those dying of it and burning the bodies so that the entire town doesn't become infected and die. Was it a questionable choice to pick this up now, having just passed a year into this pandemic? Maybe, but I really liked it so it's fine.

Looking at it as it's list of plot events, this is a fairly standard YA fantasy. However, it doesn't read that way. The first thing that made me think that this was going to land better for me was that the reason that the 16 year old girl was the one in charge was not because there were no adults/all the adults were useless/evil. 

If you view the romance that develops based on the amount of time that the characters know each other it could be called instalove, however it didn't feel like that while I was reading it so it didn't bother me. Also, no love triangles!

I really liked how it ended, in that I'm definitely excited for the sequel but if your the kind of person who likes an open ending you could read this as a standalone. 

I'm practicing being less stingy with my ratings this yer, and honestly I don't have any complaints about this book, so even though I'm not sure I would call it an all time favourite, it's still going to get 5 stars.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Excrement, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Vomit, and Xenophobia