A review by aiight
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr by John Crowley

3.0

This book starts strong, drawing you in with an intriguing 'from-a-crow's-perspective' approach.  Crow language, culture, tradition, thought process, and more play a role in the storytelling and it is engrossing.  It sadly devolves into a repetitive retelling through reincarnation in which not much is added in each iteration, neither to the crow world nor to the human world.  The abstractions increase and are more layered, making it difficult to wade through it all.  By the end, I wasn't sure what was left to take away from the narrative, and the impactful parts of the narrative were undercut but all the abstraction.