A review by aleffert
Plague Birds by Jason Sanford

4.0

This starts with a character ripping out her own heart to unleash the powerful nanotech AI that lives in her blood. If that sounds bomb to you, you should probably read this. It leads into a fairly standard fantasy leave the village, discover you're the chosen one, make special choices plot, but the world building was creative, the secondary characters quite charming, and I gobbled it up. It does continue to be more concerned with carnage and viscera than I really needed and there's one background bit that's just brutal to the point of absurdity that I think should have been toned down, not of distaste for gore, but just it was so over the top it was distracting.