A Timely Raven is just starting out, so there are only two vignettes posted at the time of this review.  However, there is still much to read and explore, as the author utilizes different aspects of the internet to tell her story.  There are sidebars and embedded text which you can click on to get a different perspective from some of the characters, along with maps, sections in audio, and external blogs and twitter feeds for different characters.

This all may sound a little busy, but it’s set up in a clean and orderly manner on the main site.  The main site itself has an attractive design.  One of the sideblogs was black with white text, which I find tiresome on the eyes.  It also was a little hard to follow as it’s arranged like a normal blog, with most recent entries first, but it’s telling a linear story and you need to go all the way back to the start to follow it properly.  That blog (Under the Bridge) was one negative for me, due to the design.  The other blog, for Emily and Lily, only has two entries (thus far).

As to the story itself.  There are three separate plots at the moment.  One, that of the raven, which acts as a sort of grim reaper, for reasons it cannot itself explain.  It meets the woman whose child it killed many years ago, and is compelled to find a replacement for her.  It flies off in search of a soul to snatch, and stops for a while to observe a conversation between some witches.  This offshoots into a plot about a coven that does something during a ritual which leads to some members being possessed and becoming succubi.

The raven doesn’t seem to care all that much about it, or them, and decides to fly off again.  It finds some children, one of whom has an invisible friend.  This was my favorite part of the story, the one I found most compelling.  I won’t tell much more about it, because I think that you should just go read it yourself.

It’s not clear to me whether all these plots will intertwine, or if the raven is meant to be a starting point which spawns all different stories to be continued on their separate character blogs.  Either way, I’m interested to see how it unfolds and will be watching the story grow.

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