{"id":12063,"date":"2014-10-31T15:56:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T22:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/halloween-book-reviewrecommendation-a-murder-of-crows\/"},"modified":"2017-01-26T22:20:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T05:20:31","slug":"halloween-book-reviewrecommendation-a-murder-of-crows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/halloween-book-reviewrecommendation-a-murder-of-crows\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Book Review\/Recommendation: A Murder of Crows"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was we crows who took your daughter, in case you were wondering. She didn’t run away.<\/i><\/p>\n

Here's the basic premise of Deanna Knippling's latest book – the crows have found a human girl who tells stories and, being somewhat… possessive of stories, carry the girl away to live with them.<\/p>\n

But the girl is shocked to silence by the flurry of wings and talons and beaks and (let's be honest) bird shit, and won't talk – won't tell<\/i> the stories that drew the crows to her in the first place.<\/p>\n

Awk<\/i>-ward, you might say. *<\/p>\n

The solution to this problem is that the girl's new feathered foster family tell her<\/b> the human stories they know: a way of priming the pump and reminding her who and what she is.<\/p>\n

Those stories, and the interstitial moments with the girl and new and old family, form the bones of A Murder of Crows<\/i> – as a fine a skeleton as you could want for Halloween.<\/p>\n

Deanna had me hooked from that first, wonderful line, and the short stories were exactly what I wanted, this time of year, both in subject and length.<\/p>\n

Are you in the same kind of mood? Need a little macabre for chilly autumn nights?<\/p>\n

Allow me to make a recommendation…<\/p>\n

A Murder of Crows: Seventeen Tales of Monsters and the Macabre – Kindle edition by DeAnna Knippling. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.<\/a>
A Murder of Crows: Seventeen Tales of Monsters and the Macabre – Kindle edition by DeAnna Knippling. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Murder of Crows: Seventeen Tales of Monsters and the Macabre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was we crows who took your daughter, in case you were wondering. She didn’t run away. Here's the basic premise of Deanna Knippling's latest book – the crows have found a human girl who tells stories and, being somewhat… possessive of stories, carry the girl away to live with them. But the girl is … <\/p>\n

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