#the merciful crow

[sapphicbookoftheday]

Favorite Non-Sapphic Books

Hey, everyone! Although this is a blog for sapphic books, I thought it might be nice to share some of my other favorite books. (By the way, this is a really long list.)

#the unpopular vote #every heart a doorway #piranesi #a psalm for the wild built #son of the storm #all systems red #murderbot #the extraordinaries #the descent of the drowned #and i darken #a complicated love story set in space #the merciful crow #the queens rising #sisters of sword and song #scythe #renegades #legendborn #darius the great is not okay #an ember in the ashes #soulswift #winter's orbit #vicious #the wolf and the woodsman #truly devious #a marvellous light #loveless

[themelodyofspring]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge

Sep 06, 2023 - Favourite First Lines

Pa was taking too long to cut the boys' throats.

#jompbpc #justonemorepage #the merciful crow #margaret owen #booklr #mypics #books #books and flowers #bookblr #read #open books #first lines

[cheesemctoastnuggets]

Books I am going Feral over, PLEASE TALK TO ME ABOUT THEM:

-Dark Rise, by C.S. Pacat

-The Little Thieves, both book 1 and 2, by Margret owens

-The Merciful Crow, by Margret Owens

-The Cruel Prince series, by Holly Black

-The Spirit Bares its Teeth, by Andrew joseph White

#AJW #ajw #the spirit bares its teeth #books #reading #bookblr #the cruel prince #folk of the air #holly black #the merciful crow #margret owens #The Little Theieves #painted devils #Dark Rise #c.s. pacat

[qbdatabase]

Check out these five titles to try next! The vibes are: snarky underdog protagonist(s) leveraging a fresh and fascinating magic system to Get What They Want, in a city that may as well be a character on its own 📖 🧙‍♂️ 🌃

Full list of titles, authors, and blurbs below the cut!

The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco

Generations of twin goddesses have long ruled Aeon. But seventeen years ago, one sister’s betrayal defied an ancient prophecy and split their world in two. Now two sisters must heal their broken world–no matter the sacrifice it demands …

The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen

Fie abides by one rule: look after your own. Her Crow caste of undertakers and mercy-killers takes more abuse than coin, but when they’re called to collect royal dead, she’s hoping they’ll find the payout of a lifetime.

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

Treasure-hunter Séverin calls upon a band of unlikely experts: An engineer with a debt to pay. A historian banished from his home. A dancer with a sinister past. And a brother in arms if not blood. What they find might change the course of history–but only if they can stay alive.

The Last Sun by K. D. Edwards

Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Court, is hired to search for Lady Judgment’s missing son, Addam, on New Atlantis, the island city where the Atlanteans moved after ordinary humans destroyed their original home.

There Will Come a Darkness by Katy Rose Pool

For generations, the Seven Prophets guided humanity―until one hundred years ago, when the Prophets disappeared. All they left behind was one final, secret prophecy, foretelling an Age of Darkness and the birth of a new Prophet who could be the world’s salvation . . . or the cause of its destruction.

#The Never Tilting World #Rin Chupeco #The Merciful Crow #Margaret Owen #The Gilded Wolves #Roshani Chokshi #The Last Sun #K. D. Edwards #There Will Come a Darkness #Katy Rose Pool #Notorious Sorcerer #Davinia Evans #alt history #fantasy #historical fiction #mythology #urban fantasy #YA books #YA fantasy #bookblr

[asexualbookbird]

Seven Covers In Seven Days

Day Two: The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen

Every day post the cover of a book you love and tag someone to do the same!

I tag: @agardenandlibrary

#bookbird babbles #snapshots #tag games #books #margaret owen #the merciful crow #booklr #book photo #seven covers

[7-10businessdays]

I hate the trope where a character is a little quirky so the writers are like, yeah, he could be bisexual. Let’s make him bisexual. We’ll have him make one offhanded comment and then never reference it again. As a treat.

#reading #romance #quirky = bisexual #also weird and alternative? #a deadly education #the merciful crow #writing trope

[guide-to-galaxy]

Top 5 (series I will start in 2024) Tuesday

Technically there’s no way I should be starting any new series this year because I have about 900 I have to finish. But I know I’ll start new ones anyway 😂. I blame Meeghan @ Meeghan Reads and so should you! Not really, well, eh, maybe half 😂. 📚🚀📚 The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas (GR/SG) – Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the…

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#A Good Girl&039;s Guide to Murder #Aiden Thomas #All of Us Villains #Amanda Foody #blogging #book series #books #Christine Lynn Herman #Holly Jackson #Margaret Owen #Sarah J Maas #The Merciful Crow #The Sunbearer Trials #Throne of Glass #top 5 tuesday

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I finallyyyyy finished The Faithless Hawk by Margaret Owen (due to my inability to focus, the book was amazing). Loved it. Loved it. Loved it. I feel like the end was a tad rushed but thankful there was proper (and well done) resolution for all the loose threads. If you're into fantasy novels and looking to pick up something a little different, highly recommend the first book The Merciful Crow.

#book review #books #hannah rambles #the merciful crow #the faithless hawk

[starrlikesbooks]

Do you have any recs for books that are along the same lines as Merlin or Prince/King x Bodyguard/Wizard adventuring? Bonus if LGBTQ+ and they smooch. <3 I love your blog!

Oddly all the books that come to mind in terms of "queer bodyguard romance" are sapphic!

Otherbound by Corrine Duyvis

Starless by Jacqueline Carey

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn

Some non-queer bodyguard romances you may like are Blade of Secrets, The Bodyguard, and maybe even The Merciful Crow.

#book list #bodyguard #otherbound #starless #gideon the ninth #the merciful crow #blade of secrets #anon

[just0nemorepage]

The Merciful Crow || Margaret Owen || The Merciful Crow #1 || 384 pages Top 3 Genres: Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance

Synopsis: A future chieftain.

Fie abides by one rule: look after your own. Her Crow caste of undertakers and mercy-killers takes more abuse than coin, but when they’re called to collect royal dead, she’s hoping they’ll find the payout of a lifetime.

A fugitive prince.

When Crown Prince Jasimir turns out to have faked his death, Fie’s ready to cut her losses—and perhaps his throat. But he offers a wager that she can’t refuse: protect him from a ruthless queen, and he’ll protect the Crows when he reigns.

A too-cunning bodyguard.

Hawk warrior Tavin has always put Jas’s life before his, magically assuming the prince’s appearance and shadowing his every step. But what happens when Tavin begins to want something to call his own?

Publication Date: July 2019. / Average Rating: 3.88. / Number of Ratings: ~2870.

#tbr tuesday #I haven't read this yet! #the merciful crow #margaret owen #300-399 pages #fantasy #young adult #romance #jomp original

[the-final-sentence]

Fie set off down the road.

Margaret Owen, from The Merciful Crow

#The Merciful Crow #Margaret Owen

[themelodyofspring]

A league away, a red trail of smoke called for Merciful Crows. It was time for a chief to answer.

#the merciful crow #margaret owen #this book was soooo good #booklr #mypics #books #bookblr #read #books and food #open books

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I’m gonna do it; I’m going to cave in to peer pressure; I’m going to read Gideon the ninth.

I want to know if Tamsyn Muir writes with a tone, voice, and sense of humor similar to Margaret Owen’s.

Well, not peer pressure, exactly. I had heard Tamsyn Muir described as a fantasy writer with a very millennial sensibility. I want to better understand what that means, and the other contemporary writer who I think comes close is Margaret Owen.

Also, I want to understand where Margaret Owen stands in contemporary YA fantasy. I think she’s an outlier, an anomaly, but my perspective is biased: maybe I don’t read enough YA fantasy to understand its trends.

I first discovered Margaret Owen through her fanfiction. I fell in love at first read. She wrote about Inuyasha and Card Captor Sakura, and her stuff was good. I lost touch with her fanfic pseudonym—

I came gradually over time to think of these fanfics with a more critical eye. Progressive with my own development as a reader and writer. Time passed, I came to tumblr—-

only to discover her again, hiding in the Miraculous Ladybug fandom like some kind of mischievous forest fae, doling out delightful comics in a lively fandom (this was before Miraculous Ladybug disappointed me irrevocably).

(Actually a lot of fandom is like the eerie fae in the forest, with tyrannical rules and lilting laughter. Maybe fandom is the fairy village itself. But I digress)

And when I learned this writer was going to publish under her own name, original fiction, i was radiant and excited. Now I looked back on her juvenilia and I thought, if that’s how she wrote at 16, imagine how she writes now!

To make a long story short, Margaret Owen and her writing inspire strong feelings in me. I am incapable of being neutral. I want to understand her work better. What I’ve see of The Locked Tomb series reminds me of Margaret Owen—a very “millennial” sensibility, where the literary voice combines a juggling act between irony and vulnerability, for instance. Locked Tomb inspires deep passion in its fans. Very aware of oppressive power structures, ie being snarky and enraged by turns. Excellent sense of humor that pervades the narrative and creates a lively atmosphere despite the various horror elements expertly laid out on the page.

There are many things I admire about Owen’s work. Maybe I even envy her. But I find something thoroughly exasperating and frustrating about her writing, and I want to puzzle out what it is. Call it my Ravenclaw nature.

#personal #reading #books #bookblr #fantasy #millennials #margaret owen #ya fantasy #literature #tamsyn muir #the locked tomb #the merciful crow #little thieves #my writings #ramblings

[team-science]

Everything’s fine.

#six of crows #the merciful crow #young adult books

[earmo-imni]

Current coping mechanisms for Roe being overturned are listening to Black Veil Brides and reading queer sci-fi—fantasy stories of angry women burning down societies that have hurt them their whole lives. It’s…well, it’s keeping me going, at least.

#black veil brides #iron widow #the merciful crow #the faithless hawk #I’m so tired and sad and despairing right now #it’s all I can do not to be swamped by the desire to just give up #Marijn talks

[anatomicallycorrectsouls]

I see what you’ve done there, Emily A. Duncan, New York Times-bestselling author of Wicked Saints

#margaret owen #merciful crow #the merciful crow #teeth