The Lion and the Crow
by Eli Easton
There
is a book I read many, many years ago for the first time, whose title I keep
like a coveted secret. I’ve revisited it often in the thirty plus years since
that first time. There’s a knight in this book, because of course there’s a
knight. His life is filled with hardships, because it is an era when life was
just hard by virtue of living. The knight from this tale was a young man who’d
already lived to middle age in an era where life expectancy was short and he
was just fifteen. 
Eli
Easton’s The Lion and the Crow, make
me think of that book. There really are no similarities between a YA sci-fi
book written in the 70s and a MM historical romance of this decade … except
that there is. Christian though not quite as young as that other character of
the oft-read book, reminds me of the other character. He’s older and four
centuries separate him from the other character, but the stoic nature with
which he endures is the same. This is the vision of knights sans shinning
armor, the unwavering integrity and strength of spirit.
In
this second edition Easton has fleshed out moments that had already felt
complete. The brevity of one line of exposition was converted into a scene we
readers had been deprived of without ever knowing the loss.
No
spoilers, just this: I’d given the M/M Romance Group first edition five stars
and this revision merits the same, but endings are never truly endings until
they are and so I falter … and then I
rally.
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