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We bear the sword, and we bear the pain of the sword.
On Kupala Night, Dymitr arrives in Chicago’s monstrous, magical underworld with a perilous mission: pick the mythical fern flower and offer it to a cursed creature in exchange for help finding the legendary witch Baba Jaga.
Ala is a fear-eating zmora afflicted with a bloodline curse that’s slowly killing her. She's just desperate enough to say yes to Dymitr, even if she doesn’t know his motives.
Over the course of one night, Ala and Dymitr risk life and limb in search of Baba Jaga, and begin to build a tentative friendship. . . but when Ala finds out what Dymitr is hiding, it could destroy them both.
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I’m pleasantly surprised at how intricately Roth managed to craft a rich, magically gothic world and complex characters in such a short time. At only 163 pages, this was a quick read chock-full of monsters, dangerous quests, curses, and sacrifice with deeper themes of family loyalty, redemption, and atonement. I’m not familiar with Slavic folklore so all the creatures and lore was fascinating to me and it felt like reading a modern day Grimms fairytale. Rounding up to 5 stars simply because I am so impressed with how fleshed out this story is and how Roth did so much in so little pages. Also, the cover!
This is going to be an unpopular opinion review. The only books from Veronica Roth that I have read have been the Divergent series. I ate that series up! I loved the characters, the plot, the world building was not a mess of confusion, I could actually envision what I was reading, I can not say the same about When Among Crows. The world building or lack there of, had me re reading the same page to figure out what was happening, the characters lack the background knowledge for the reader to not only understand what they are, but I ended up not caring about them. Once I was able to figure out what was actually happening, the book was almost done. I have seen other reviews where readers didn't enjoy her other books that were YA, so I can understand the want from Veronica to move more towards an adult book. But this was so juvenile with the writing and don't get me wrong I am not offended by adult language in a book, but there has to be a reason for it. Not just oh I am going to have my character swear so the reader knows they are adult... I really think that if this book was not a novella, if it was longer and Veronica Roth took the time to write more of a background the reader would have a better grasp on the world which the story was taken place. We'd understand better the conflict between the different characters and why they have conflict. I think Veronica has a good start, but she could do with a better execution. The cover though... that was my only favorite thing about the whole When Among Crows experience.