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    The Queen of Crows
    The Queen of Crows
    The Queen of Crows
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    The Queen of Crows

    Written by Myke Cole

    Narrated by Michi Barall

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    Myke Cole's Sacred Throne Trilogy continues to blend epic fantasy with power armor in a second book sure to please fans of Brandon Sanderson and Joe Abercrombie. The Queen of Crows, book two of the Sacred Throne Trilogy, continues the epic story of Heloise as she continues her journey from obscurity to greatness. Despite the crippling injuries she's received, Heloise stands tall against overwhelming odds with the help of alchemically-empowered armor and an unbreakable spirit. Heloise has grown from a shell-shocked girl into a figure of revolution, and as she draws in allies, her cause grows ever stronger. The time for hiding underground is over. Heloise must face the tyrannical Order and lay siege to the Imperial Palace itself.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 18, 2018
    ISBN9781501963742
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    Myke Cole

    Following a long career in the military, intelligence, and law enforcement, Myke Cole is a fire/rescue responder in NY's Hudson Valley. He is a freelance historian and writer, and has published ten novels with publishers including Penguin Random House and Macmillan in addition to his history books for Osprey. Myke's short work has appeared in The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, The Daily Beast, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, McSweeney's, and Slate. He's starred on TV shows on CBS and Discovery, and has featured on NPR.

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    • 5/5
      This book starts off shortly after the conclusion of the Armored Saint. Heloise, at sixteen years, continues to develop as the unintentional savior. As much as she does not want to be, her village places her on a pedestal. They expect her to lead them. The Order continues to hunt down Heloise and her fellow 'heretics.'
    • 3/5
      I thought the first book was promising, and my main concerns coming out of that one were "I'm not sure how I feel about the evil church guys being right that magic-users are inherently a pathway for demons to enter the world" and "I sure hope the main character gets a love interest other than the one who dies," which are both addressed in this book to my satisfaction. However, the extent to which this book piles on the misery was just exhausting. It's not uncommon for the middle installment in a trilogy to involve a series of failures and show the protagonist hitting their lowest point, certainly, but it really felt like a lot here. The protagonist loses an arm, then an eye, then gets a massive, disfiguring facial scar, in separate incidents but within a pretty short space of time, and by the third time it just feels gratuitous, not helped by all the emotional damage being heaped on her alongside of it. It's pretty clearly all about making it even more triumphant and cathartic when she stands up against the odds in spite of it all and wins, but there wasn't quite enough of that to offset how unpleasant it was to watch her be constantly brutalized, for me--and the triumph feels a little hollow when you're going "okay, but she still has massive PTSD and has a panic attack whenever she's required to exit her giant robot, though." I'll probably still read the third book, but with some trepidation, and if Heloise isn't somewhat more stable by the end of it I'll probably retroactively like this book less as well.
    • 4/5
      The first half of this book was something of a slog for me, because it's so dense with battles. Specifically, depressing losing battles, where the characters are constantly on the run and miserable Things picked up in the second half, although there was still a good bit of battling, the pace felt less grinding. I'm very intrigued to read the third installment of the series, to see where things go from here.
    • 4/5
      The second book follows up right after the previous one with the town reeling from their decision to rise up against the Order. They are quickly on the run when the Order comes back to finish them off. The villagers find refuge with the Traveling People that help them rescue one of their own from the Order but decline to be drawn into their battle. They are given a few supplies and they decide to take over a town to protect themselves from the troops they know will come after parting ways with the Traveling People. The rest of the story moves along at a blazing clip and now I’m impatiently waiting on the third book.

      Digital review copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley
    • 4/5
      More fighting, this time Heloise is gaining more allies and more injuries.It's interesting but somehow a bit gorier than I really enjoy.