"CROP BURNER: The Tale Of Fearn & The Deamhon, introduces a strong fantasy world rife with danger, intrigue, immense power, and shifting alliances. There's some familiar world building devices, but the book manages to grow its own mythology—sometimes literally. It's an especially nice bit of storytelling that Fearn's father is, in fact, a storyteller, so readers can learn the mythos of their world through stories passed down from generation to generation in village taverns. And the lore itself is vivid, from the creation stories of their gods to cautionary tales about greed disguised as folklore. The power of those stories themselves are just as central to the book as Fearn's emerging supernatural abilities as an Asinta. They tug the plot into new precarious directions, ones that either help or undermine Fearn's journey. Can they always be believed? Where do truth and fiction blur? And they give the world a very lived-in kind of feeling, so it's easy to believe they've existed for centuries. CROP BURNER is a fantastic coming-of-age story layered under a brilliant mythology and a lush magic system that shows the complicated duality between good and evil."