Book review for The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson. I rated it 4.5 stars A fantasy book with some great plot twists. The story centres around Neema, a High Scholar for the Empire who belongs to the Raven faction. The setting of the book is that each person dedicates themself to a particular animal god - a fox, bear, raven, ox, monkey, tiger or hound. There’s also the magic-using dragon faction that are kind of mysterious and live on their own little island. In a way this reminds me of the faction system in Divergent, or like joining a house in Harry Potter. Your faction also determines what sort of work you do, and basically seems to determine your entire personality as well. Foxes are always playing tricks on other people, oxes are sturdy and reliable, the ravens are smart, and so on. In that sense the characters become quite the stereotype, which I don’t really like. Every 24 years, each of the factions choose a candidate and they fight it out amongst themselves to choose the next…
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