"The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly" is my first five-star book of this year. 

Plotline: Sprout, a battery hen who dreams of hatching an egg on her own. She leaves the conventional world of hens and becomes independent while protecting and striving for a better life.

Character development and depths:  the animal characters used regardless they are black or white as the story passes it justifies the actions of each animal teaching us about the sacrifice the parents make for their children. 

Writing style: I have read quite a lot of Korean-English translations and I found myself always preferring the writing style regardless these are translated by different translators. The book consists of a very light writing style.

Readability: This is only a little over 100 pages which are very easy to read through and the sentences and the lexicon used is really easy to understand. 

Message: It talks a lot about parental sacrifice and the importance of having a dream regardless of what others think of you. Also about the courage and the striving for the results and never giving up on what/who you love.

Originality: I have not seen many books where they justify all the black and white characters to show why certain things are done by black characters. The villains receiving the sympathy was a fresh experience.

Immersion (Rich world-building): The imagery and the characters portrayal was nicely done using only animal characters to tell a bigger story in a short story like this. I love how the author describes the peaceful life of the preyed animals and how they try to survive and co-exist instead of running away. The imagery upon the reservoir and migrating ducks and the nature writing adds some relaxing feelings to the story.

Ending: Most of the books I read recently lost a point for the ending even though they were all five-star promising books. However, "The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly" has a very sweet ending and also a very justified ending. It is not all sad and it is not all happy. Like the yin and yang of life.

Emotions:  I don’t know about you but these types of books are enough to make my grown-ass cry like a baby. It is a sad but pretty awesome story to read. I loved every bit of it. 

Would you recommend it to someone: Yes. anyone who prefers to read about animal world fiction with a nice underlying story would love this.