Review: Daughter of Crows

Daughter of Crows by Mark Lawrence
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Thanks to Netgalley and Berkley Ace for the prerelease copy of Daughter of Crows by Mark Lawrence. Below you'll find my honest review.

Mark Lawrence is the King of Trilogies. It's just fact. Every trilogy he writes is immaculately well done, with the story spread over three volumes just right, and each feeling like its own complete volume in that trilogy. Daughter of Crows is further proof of his rightful crowning as King of Trilogies.

This one follows characters from the Academy of Kindness, where a bunch of girls go to train, but also to die - only three will survive and bear the title of Kindness, and then go out into the world meting out justice.

This story jumps around and follows multiple POVs through different time periods, and not everything is as it seems.

Also there are some magical elements to the story, some warring factions, some interesting mythological lore-borrowing (like the Morrigan), etc.

A little bit of a pacing issue for me in some parts, but not something I feel like everyone will find to be the case.

Highly recommended for fantasy fans, 4.5 stars rounded up.

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