When Among Crows
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When Among Crows

by Roth, Veronica

Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
2024

Overview

<p><b>An instant <i>USA Today</i> bestseller!</b><br><br><b>A Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee!</b><br><br><b>Now in paperback, the <i>USA Today</i> bestselling <i>When Among Crows</i> is a story of witches, knights, and monsters set in modern day Chicago and pulling from Slavic folklore from #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Veronica Roth.</b><br><br><i>We bear the sword, and we bear the pain of the sword.</i><br><br>On Kupala Night, Dymitr arrives in Chicago’s monstrous, magical underworld with a perilous mission: pick the mythical fern flower and offer it to a cursed creature in exchange for help finding the legendary witch Baba Jaga.<br><br>Ala is a fear-eating zmora afflicted with a bloodline curse that’s slowly killing her. She's just desperate enough to say yes to Dymitr, even if she doesn’t know his motives. <br><br>Over the course of one night, Ala and Dymitr risk life and limb in search of Baba Jaga, and begin to build a tentative friendship. . . but when Ala finds out what Dymitr is hiding, it could destroy them both.<br><br><b>"Lovely, lush, and full of otherworldly longing, this modern fairytale about righteousness and the weight we bear for love is Roth at her most imaginative and ethereal."—Olivie Blake, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Atlas Six</i></b></p>

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