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When Among Crows

An emotionally-charged contemporary fantasy of love, sacrifice and ancient enchantments as Polish folklore thrives in today’s Chicago, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divergent, Chosen Ones and Arch-Conspirator.

Step into a city where monsters feast on human emotions, knights split their souls to make their weapons, and witches always take more than they give.

Pain is Dymitr’s calling. To slay the monsters he’s been raised to kill, he had to split his soul in half to make a sword from his own spine. Every time he draws it, he gets blood on his hands.

Pain is Ala’s inheritance. When her mother died, a family curse to witness horrors committed by the Holy Order was passed onto her. The curse will claim her life, as it did her mother’s, unless she can find a cure.

One fateful night in Chicago, Dymitr comes to Ala with a bargain: her help in finding the legendary witch Baba Jaga in exchange for an enchanted flower that just might cure her. Desperate, and unaware of what Dymitr really is, Ala agrees.

But they only have one day before the flower dies, and Ala's hopes of breaking the curse along with it.


Author:

  • Veronica Roth

Narrators:

  • Helen Laser
  • James Fouhey
  • Tim Campbell

Format:

  • Audiobook
  • E-book

Duration:

  • 4 h 36 min
  • 101 pages

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Fantasy and Sci-Fi
  • Sci-Fi

3.7

31 ratings

Anna

11/19/2024

I loved the lore in this novella, both dark, cruel and rich of eastern european folklore and accents. The story was a little bit too straightforward for my taste (it's a novella so it has to pick up quick and settle easily) but i still found the construction interesting. I would have loved to read a full novel with these characters !

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