Undoing – Shelly Laurenston – 4*

Jace Berisha has never had an easy life.  When she was a child her mother took her from her grandmother and moved Jace into a cult.  When she is 16 she is married to the leader of the group.  It is noted nothing sexual happens until she is 18.  She is the keeper of knowledge for the cult and uses this as an excuse to read everything and learn multiple languages.  When her husband realizes she is not a true believer he kills her.  Skuld comes to her and changes her into a crow.  All of her sister crows think she is just shy and try to pull her out of her shell which leads her to hide from them every chance she can.  The only crows who seem to get her is Kera and Erin and they try to run interference with everyone else.  The goddess they thought they had destroyed in the last book wasn’t actually destroyed and she has only gotten stronger.  The Protectors are trying to find a way to kill her or take her out of commission but all of the books are in Russian and they don’t know anyone who can translate them.  Protector Ski Eriksen wants Jace to translate for them but that would require her to interact with more people.  When a sister crow decides Jace needs a job to socialize more, Jace decides the Protectors is the lesser evil. 

I loved this book so very much.  Jace was a fun character.  She has rages where she sees red when she is fighting and destroy her enemies.  I laughed through a lot of this book.  One of the best scenes was when one of the crows is trying to get Jace to less shy so she needs a job.  Jace not being interested in what this woman wants runs, literally, to the Protectors house and accepts their job offer and is set to run home.  Instead she gets a ride with Ski and part way home she bales out of the car because of his chattering.  That is just how she is.