Unlike some commenters on Goodreads, I actually enjoyed the toast to nature.
is kind of washed away behind the reason humanity fell. What should be a big turning point for S.T. His big character arc is finally realizing that he is indeed a crow with MoFo mannerisms, not a Mofo in a crow body. He is quite dedicated to first curing humanity and then to keeping Dennis alive and then to carrying out his life as a crow. He has his own personality, and that personality just happens to harbor extremely cheesy catch phrases and a disturbing sense of loyalty to humanity. I wouldn’t consider S.T likable, but I wouldn’t consider him generic either. ” They are great for creating feeling and some are powerful imagery.
Each chapter is riddled with them (we’ll talk about that later), things like “Looking for signs of twisted limbs, hungry vermillion eyes, and neck bones with no rules,” or “Then it flattened its ears to its head and expelled a roar, a roar that tore through the bones of the building.
The way she describes action–the crows attacking or getting away from danger–is quite realistic. There are moments Buxton can actually write. It’s a shame she can’t write.īut first, let’s talk about the GOOD things about Hollow Kingdom. It’s obvious that Buxton appreciates, loves, and admires animals. We learn about Aura, the way creatures of the Earth communicate with one another, and we learn how each of them sees humans, from S.T’s fantastical obsession with the resourcefulness of humans (or MoFo’s) to the murder of crow’s less than tasteful view of humans (or Hollows). I’ve said before the plot is ingenious: a crow tells the story of how humankind fell.
There are so many unsatisfying things about this book, I’m not sure I can fit them in this one post. The characters introduced in the first few chapters: Genghis Cat, Winnie the Poodle, and those throughout, like the Humpback whales and a pack of wolves, are filled with personality and never really heard from again. The world Kira Jane Buxton creates, at first glance of the back cover, feels magical, grotesque, intriguing. It’s been a long journey from Dennis and S.T.’s house with Big Jim, to Kraai the crow, Migisi the eagle, The One Who Conquers, The Weavers, and The One Who Keeps.
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