A review by aimiller
Swordbird by Nancy Yi Fan

3.0

This book was very cute, and the world was pretty well built. The tone of it was sort of confusing--it felt pretty formal, and didn't mesh for me in the way I normally like--but that may also be a side effect of me like. Not having read an MG book in about 100 years. I think if you've got a kid who likes birds, or animal stories in general, they might really like this. As an adult, some of it seemed a little weird (as like a person who cannot turn their brain off, the sort of Biblical allegory seemed to really hit me over the head and I wasn't sure I was super comfortable with it) but obviously the message is positive and it doesn't go much further into that allegorical territory that I possibly just made up.