Middle-grade fantasy. Book three of the Nevermoor series. Features Morrigan Crow, a serious and sensible girl growing up in an absurd and fantastical realm, along with lots of strange creatures and magic and terrible villains and hijinks. As I’ve observed before, it is enough like that famous series by She Who Must Not Be Named to bear the comparison but different enough to be worth reading on its own merits. (It includes at least somewhat better representation than that series too – more non-white characters, though I’m not sure their non-whiteness is present in a particularly substantive way, and for the first time in this book the inclusion of a couple of openly queer minor characters whose queerness is not treated as in the least bit remarkable by anyone in the story.) Can’t say much about this one without spoiling earlier books, but it is interesting that the story strongly features a pandemic and consequent intensified targeting of an oppressed group, even though given how the book industry works that decision must have been made well before March 2020. As with the earlier books in the series, it is fast moving, silly, and fun.
Originally posted by Scott on Goodreads.