Hollow Kingdom, Kira Jane Buxton
Hollow Kingdom, Kira Jane Buxton
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Hollow Kingdom

Author: Kira Jane Buxton

Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Unabridged: 10 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/06/2019


Synopsis

In this hilarious, "dazzling" romp, a foul-mouthed crow is humanity's only chance to survive a zombie apocalypse–think Watership Down meets Dawn of the Dead (Mona Awad, author of Bunny).

S.T. is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his human owner, Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (i.e. ""those idiots""), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos ®. But when Big Jim's eyeball falls out of his head, S.T. starts to think something's not quite right. 

With no choice but to abandon his old life and venture out into a frightening new world with his trusty steed Dennis (a loyal but dimwitted dog), S.T. discovers that the neighbors are devouring one other. Humanity's extinction has seemingly arrived, and the only one determined to save it is a cowardly crow whose only knowledge of the world comes from TV–What could possibly go wrong?
 
Includes a Reading Group Guide.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on October 13, 2016

This is a wonderful, different kind of YA fantasy, set in Victorian times in England. It takes the old trope--goblin kings kidnap beautiful girls, marry them and they never see the light of day again--and twists it: Goblins are lovable even if ugly and, um, prone to kidnapping women for their wives.......more

Goodreads review by Julie on July 27, 2010

I... well. The beginning is creepy in a good way. The end is creepy in a bad way. The beginning has a sense of danger from a goblin menace. The end is some sort of apologia for rape, abduction, and Stockholm Syndrome. This book just kinda grosses me out.......more

Goodreads review by Keertana on April 21, 2013

If you had asked me just last year, I would have told you I didn't have a favorite fairy tale. I grew up hating "Snow White" and while I adored nearly every "Cinderella" movie re-telling I'd seen, the original story was not among my favorites at all. As a child, I never actually saw "Beauty and the......more