And everyday real-life already feels so apocalyptic, what’s the point of diving deeper into doomsday with new imaginative retellings? Or so I wrongfully thought. The end of the world has been fictionalized too many times to count. Will he successfully save humankind from extinction? No spoilers here!Īt this point, zombies are overrated. is tasked with protecting the last of a dying species from new mutant threats. once again comes beak-to-beak with the kind of hard truths you can only find on a bonafide hero’s journey. Along the way, we said a tearful goodbye to Dennis (I’m still teary just thinking about it) discovered that while you can take the crow out of the wild, you can’t take the wild out of the crow and fought nail-biting battles of epic proportions. When we last saw S.T., he had just concluded his quest to save domestic pets from screen-loving zombies, Buxton’s take on the next evolutionary cycle for humankind.
But Kira Jane Buxton’s first novel, Hollow Kingdom, genuinely surprised me, and her second novel Feral Creatures is just as wild of a ride.Įveryone’s favorite crowtagonist is back for another death-defying romp around the Pacific Northwest (emphasis on the north). Memes can now be purchased for millions of dollars, we very much live in a world with robots, and headlines like this are far too commonplace. There isn’t much that surprises me anymore, living in the 21 st century and all.
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