Reviews with content warning for Homophobia - Hawk Mountain

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connorcashcolbert's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I tore through this book in less than 24 hours. Tense, bleak, tender, brutal, tragic, beautiful. A great debut novel but definitely not for the faint of heart!

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mitchvandiver's review

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challenging dark sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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eternaldaydreams's review

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dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

absolutely soul crushing and bleak. i spiraled once i finally finished the book. you’re left with a hopeless, pessimistic mood once you set the book down. the characters own views bleed into you, if only for a moment. very well done though, i absolutely recommend, it’s one of those books you read once and never again. it will haunt me for the rest of my life. the vocabulary is simple and easy to understand, yet emotions are written so poetically. there is an underlying depth in each sentence. you don’t need big words to be able to do that. you just need meaning. naturally when consuming darker media, you always try to grasp on things that can provide comfort. this book gives you none of that. there is nothing to hold onto, not even the characters. they are overall unlikeable, and in end end you feel like a hollow husk. the characters most likely feel the same too. make sure to take care of yourself while you read, treat yourself gently.

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booksojwhi's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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bee_03's review

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dark tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

this was a recommendation i've long been waiting to get my hands on.

i found myself most enthralled by the first half of the book. halfway through the story started to drag and didn't capture my attention quite like the beginning. while the second half didn't feel completely divorced from the first half there was a noticeable shift that i don't think lived up to what came before.

unfortunately, the book didn't live up to my expectations. there were elements i liked but not the story overall. mostly i am left feeling ambivalent. that said, i liked habib's prose. there were more than a few lines i had to take a moment to reread because of how they were written.

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