Book Tour and Review for The Skald Crow by Hanna Park

Welcome to a stop on the blog tour for THE SCALD CROW by Hanna Park. This is the first book that I’ve read by her and really enjoyed it. I’m about to release my own book on that includes Irish Mythology so it was fun to dive into this one!

 

The Scald Crow
(Beyond the Faerie Rath Book 1) 
By Hanna Park

Publication Date: 26th May 2025
Publisher: Baisong Press
Print Length: 260 Pages
Genre: Fantasy / Romance

 

Blurb:

Calla left her life behind, haunted by a curse she cannot control. She seeks refuge in the land of a thousand hellos, Ireland, for a fresh start—a place where no one knows who or what she is.

Colm fled from Clonmara seven long years ago, but now it’s his father’s birthday, and the clan has gathered to celebrate the ould one. Each day brings back the memories that ruined him.

Saoirse dwells in the shadows of a lost love, unwilling to move on and unable to forget. The crystals say one thing, but the cold, hard truth tells another.

Ciarán walked away from the woman he loved for the fun, for the craic. He didn’t realize that one rash decision would impact the lives of so many, least of all his own.

 Four broken hearts, brought together by the thread of love.

 

My Review: I enjoyed reading The Scald Crow. I had to start by looking up what a scald crow was, as that's how I roll. What I found is that it is a crow, native to Ireland, that considered a scavenger and a, occasionally menacing, omen of death in Irish folklore. So this sets the scene! The MC Calla Sweet is a Canadian TV personality who flees to Ireland under a cloud of mystery. She's inherited a farm from what she thinks is a distant relative. Immediately she becomes involved with the O'Donnell family, esp. Colm, who has his own personal issues going on. 

We quickly learn that Calla has special powers, can see death coming, and has a connection with the Otherworld. Her attraction to Colm is fast and furious even as she tries to figure out who and what she is. 

The writing is dense with lots of discription. The Irish mythology is good and well explained. I will warn you that it ends on a total cliff hanger which is not a favorite of mine. 

I would totally recommend this book to lovers of fantasy/romance with a deep dive into mythology. 

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Author Bio:

 

I began my writing career in the pre-dawn of a winter morning while my husband snored like a train. We could call my husband the catalyst. If it weren’t for him, I would never have gone to the kitchen to make a pot of coffee, feed the cat, and sit on the loveseat in front of the fire. It was there, in those moments of wondrous quiet, that I did something I had never thought possible. I opened my laptop, and while the coffee went cold, I wrote a story. My husband had no idea that these sojourns to the loveseat in front of the fire would become a daily occurrence, that writing would become an obsession, but the cat knew. She knows everything.

 

I write stories that make you laugh, make you cry, and make you love. Thank you, friends, for reading!

In the beginning, there was an empty page.

I am a writer who lives in Muskoka, Canada, with a husband who snores, a hungry cat, and an almost perfect canine––he’s an adorable little shit.

 

 

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Website: https://www.hannapark.ca

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