Hollow Kingdom

It was pretty cool to read this book as a Seattle resident who lives pretty close to the downtown area. So many spots in this book are spots I walk past or have been to which made the book fun to read. Not gonna lie, I fell into reading dry spell and it took me a really long time to read this book. In fact, I set it down for a while and picked it back up. What really helped was just reading for short increments everyday instead of getting overwhelmed by "needing" to finish the book. This book was hilarious and definitely a refresher from all the horror books I read. I mean, come one, the main character is a crow named Shit Turd who refers to humans as MoFos and even considers himself a Mofo. The cute little relationship with him and the bloodhound Dennis and his previous relationship with his owner (when he was alive) and comical, but actually kind of sentimental. I've heard this book described as a mix between The Walking Dead and Zootopia and they are not wrong! Humans are literally dying out in this book due to their obsession with technology. As the humans die out, more apex predators can overrule the animal kingdom and take over. This book did a great job with all the social classes that the animals belonged to. There were the domestics vs. the wild animals and them banding together to save all the trapped animals that the humans had left behind. They even got the Woodland Park Zoo animals and the Seattle Aquarium animals! This book was so cleverly written and I'm so glad to add this to my little collection of books. I know this is just one book out of the trilogy so after I read some other books, I'll be revisiting the series!