What readers think of Palaces of the Crow, plus links to write your own review.

As one reviewer wrote, this book is "sharp speculative fiction" boding on "morality and mortality." Indeed, there is a depth to this fantasy historical fiction novel. Set during WWII, Neriya, a Jewish girl, befriends Buster, a crow she has met, who saves her from the Nazis. Hidden in the woods she stays with Czeslaw, a Polish defector from the Russian army, Kezia, a Roma who witnessed the murder of her family, and a non-speaking boy whose name is unknown. Together these four and the crows protecting them manage to eke out a community of equality and respect. But make no mistake they face human brutality and horror but a nobility from the birds - this is not a novel that makes things pretty.

Thirty years later Czeslaw returns as a high KGB official seeking revenge on his wartime foes and bringing a cringing secret - the corruptibility of power and its madness.
I'd like to thank NetGalley and Farrar, Strauss and Gerard for allowing me to read this ARC.