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A review by polkadotgirl
Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger
4.0
4/5 stars:
I really, really liked this book. In fact it's been a long while since a fantasy world captured my attention so throughly and made me think so much (in a good way!).
I think the best part of this book, like I already said, was its world-building and magic system. I loved both the fantastical aspects of it and the explanations we're giving about it about how it works, as the fact that we get to read about the cultural differences in kingdoms/nations on how these practices are viewed and understood. It makes the world feel so real because it's got layers and so much complexity.
This entire story, really, is a heavy commentary on colonialism and I absolutely adored that, especially because we've got quite a few POV throughout the book and we get to see so many perspectives and we live along with the characters as they realize things they hadn't even aware of before, and we get to see them grow and change and shape.
The relationships disappointed me a little bit, because I was expecting more development from them and I was expecting to be more invested in the dynamics between characters. But I think I understand that the book wasn't really about that, so it's mostly just my own fault for expecting differently.
Overall, I really recommend this book and I'm just very happy that I loved a fantasy standalone so much because you don't tend to find them very easily.
I really, really liked this book. In fact it's been a long while since a fantasy world captured my attention so throughly and made me think so much (in a good way!).
I think the best part of this book, like I already said, was its world-building and magic system. I loved both the fantastical aspects of it and the explanations we're giving about it about how it works, as the fact that we get to read about the cultural differences in kingdoms/nations on how these practices are viewed and understood. It makes the world feel so real because it's got layers and so much complexity.
This entire story, really, is a heavy commentary on colonialism and I absolutely adored that, especially because we've got quite a few POV throughout the book and we get to see so many perspectives and we live along with the characters as they realize things they hadn't even aware of before, and we get to see them grow and change and shape.
The relationships disappointed me a little bit, because I was expecting more development from them and I was expecting to be more invested in the dynamics between characters. But I think I understand that the book wasn't really about that, so it's mostly just my own fault for expecting differently.
Overall, I really recommend this book and I'm just very happy that I loved a fantasy standalone so much because you don't tend to find them very easily.