Hawksong

All right, what do we have here? A conundrum, of course. My mind kept oscillating between 3.5 or 4 stars and I'm choosing neither. This book is actually very difficult to rate! The reasons? 1) It has a splendid story line. Who doesn't love shape - shifters with a history? I simply love history and ancie......more

Ever since I've arrived at GoodReads, I've wanted to write a review for this book. It deserves a review. But every time I tried, the proper words wouldn't come, and so I just stuck with a completely insufficient paragraph outlining my thoughts in a nutshell. But I'm going to try again, and this time......more

Hawksong is possibly one of the most under-rated fantasy novels I've come across. In fact, this book simply seems to fall under everyone's radar - much to their own loss, I must say. Atwater-Rhodes is a brilliant writer, creating a world rich in lore, myth, and tradition. Danica, the queen of her ha......more

I rarely read YA novels, but I had this series in mi TBR pile for a long time and I decided to give it a try. Nor do I ovely like a fist person narrative...but... Oh, boy, was it good! Really, I wouldn't classify this as YA... it has a "flavour" of a classical fantasy. The language was almost lirical......more

I loved the idea behind this book. Snake people vs bird people? Yes, please! And the character interactions were pretty sweet.......more