A review by immovabletype
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr by John Crowley

Did not finish book.

I may come back to this someday; I was disappointed to DNF it about halfway through. There were points where Dar Oakley's perspective (as a crow) is a delight to read and try to parse: what is he trying to describe as an animal that he simply doesn't have human words — or, indeed, human methods of thinking — to express? But sometimes it's just too dense and layered with concepts of history, religion and mythology that I don't have a vocabulary for, and that made it frustrating. There's also very little driving the story itself, it's all pretty psychological and meandering, so that made it hard to put up with the more experimental writing. If anyone else has read this I'd be interested to know what you think of the back half of the book.