Fans of postapocalyptic dangers and witty narration will eat up this charming story. Buxton balances the snarky humor and moving tenderness of her delightful protagonist with genuine tension. After Dee goes missing, she displays an uncanny knack for communicating across species to fight the Changed Ones and tests S.T.’s strong desires to protect her. But the area’s animals are all hunkered down to avoid the singularly destructive Changed Ones stalking the region. carries on his hilariously narrated postapocalyptic adventures in a sequel that expands and evolves Buxtons post-human world. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. 'Kira Jane Buxtons Hollow Kingdom introduced an unforgettable crowtagonist in S.T., a human-raised crow fond of pop-culture allusions and relentless animal puns. She calls the tropical utopia of Seattle, Washington, home and spends her time with three cats, a dog, two crows, a charm of hummingbirds, and a husband. There, they reconnect with his old murder, other friends like Orange the orangutan, and nemeses including a trio of tigers escaped from the zoo. Kira Jane Buxton ’s writing has appeared in The New York Times,, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Huffington Post, and more. (flightless after an injury) back to S.T.’s old stomping grounds near Seattle. and flees into the ocean where a pod of orcas carry her and S.T. When Dee discovers the hideous, larva-like beings her family has become, she sets fire to the cabin she shares with S.T. has raised Yup’ik Dee, the last uninfected human, in a remote region of Alaska with the help of the owls and his eagle friend, Migisi. In the 13 years since a screen-transmitted virus infected all of humanity and turned them into rapidly evolving, nightmarish chimeras called Changed Ones, S.T. continue in Buxton’s eventful follow-up to 2019’s Hollow Kingdom. The postapocalyptic adventures of bighearted, irreverent crow S.T.

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