I Read Stories: The Crow's Second Tale by Marissa Lingen

 

The Crow’s Second Tale by Marissa Lingam in Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Kris is young when she learns the song about the crow with only one story. It’s bad for anyone, anything to only have one story. Her Auntie Cerryl had withered away with just one story. And as a child she tries to fix it, to tell every crow she sees another story. But crows don’t sit around so she has to get good at telling them quickly.

She keeps at it, even when she learns magic. Even as she trains, as she works on her luck piece. Her stories often revolve around a magician’s luck piece – and why not, for those who study will pass, but it’s the luckiest ones who will get the best score and be given the best assignments.

A story that mixes fairy tales and folk lore with more contemporary fantasy – and into the modern age with examinations and assignments. Each element arriving in an unexpected way, then adding to the others.

Read This: Many tales woven together expertly
Don’t Read This: Birds don’t need stories