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A review by seawoodwrites
Master of Crows by Grace Draven
4.0
This is sumptuously written. Really, one I couldn't put down - an excellent story with characters you care about and a well-realised world.
I have a few nitpicks. Author echo appears with a couple of favourite words - that's an editing issue. Some missing explanations - I'm not a fan of the infodump and most things were well-explained, but the story got in the way of the world-building at times, leaving the reader to make assumptions that should have been explained (the pantheon structure, the issue of slavery, the reason why the Master of Crows is an outcast in the first place).
Finally - and this is no fault of the book itself - I'm just tired of the "woman as passive donor in a patriarchal world" trope. Martise has power but way too many scruples which are not explained simply by her status. I would have liked to have seen her with a lot more agency.
I have a few nitpicks. Author echo appears with a couple of favourite words - that's an editing issue. Some missing explanations - I'm not a fan of the infodump and most things were well-explained, but the story got in the way of the world-building at times, leaving the reader to make assumptions that should have been explained (the pantheon structure, the issue of slavery, the reason why the Master of Crows is an outcast in the first place).
Finally - and this is no fault of the book itself - I'm just tired of the "woman as passive donor in a patriarchal world" trope. Martise has power but way too many scruples which are not explained simply by her status. I would have liked to have seen her with a lot more agency.