alison croggon, the crow review

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Value for Money	10/10
Overall rating	10/10

100% Recommended3 out of 3 Reviews

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By NewMoonRising on 30th Jul 2006

NewMoonRising's Ratings

Value for money	10/10
Overall value	10/10
NewMoonRising's recommendation

Good Points

A more thorough analysis of characters who, until this point, have been secondary.
Thought-inducing, planned plot which makes you desperate to unravel the story.

Bad Points

General Comments

Hem, Maerad's brother who she found in the first book after living their lives away from each other, has been taken to Turbansk with his new guardian, Saliman.
Soon, it becomes unsafe for anyone to stay in Turbansk and Hem, Saliman and their new acquaintance, Zelika, a fiery young women with a need for vengeance, flee.

Soon Hem's past and future catch up with him. Just what is his link to the Treesong, and why is he, alongside Maerad, needed to purge the world they live in of all its evil?

I have waited a long time to read this book. After I finished reading The Riddle, part two of Alison Croggon's quartet about Pellinor, I was hooked.
I had read that this book was to be about Hem and I have to admit, I had my reservations. I wasn't as attached to him as a character as I was to Maerad and Cadvan and I was desperate to know what was to be their fate.

I settled myself down and readied myself for disappointment, disappointment that never came.

Alison Croggon has the langauge to make you care very strongly about many characters, (Hem, Zelika and Saliman have become favourites of mine) and make you hate others (The Nameless One and Hulls sound just like out of a nightmare, put into words).

Many times during the book, I was touched and shocked (mainly character deaths made me feel this way) and now I am even more desperate to unravel the riddle that Alison Croggon has woven.

I am thankful that, on the off chance, a couple of years ago, I was lacking in books and stumbled across The Gift purely by luck. If I hadn't, I would have been unaware of this beautiful and compelling story which has made my life just that little bit better.

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