A review by arinreads
The Faithless Hawk by Margaret Owen
5.0
okay, so.
i so desperately wanted this to be good, i was half-convinced i bullied myself into liking this up to 5 stars, but truth be told, i was living this book. even despite having some issues with the pacing.
there are definitely a couple of shocking twists and turns which were all kind of crazy but at the same time so deliciously dramatic i fell for each one.
one thing i liked (besides fie being both an absolute badass and a desperate mess of a seventeen-year-old girl) is the perfect example of an opressive system and the way people are struggling under it. there are characters who try to conform to it, characters who openly resist, characters who benefit from it yet have their eyes opened to the whole injustice and wrongness of it all.
truly don't understand why this particular duology is being overlooked by so many since this is so much in the spirit of the good old ya tradition while implementing all the needed changes.
also, the characters and the relationships between them? what a fucking joy to read. i missed being that excited about a ya fantasy.
i so desperately wanted this to be good, i was half-convinced i bullied myself into liking this up to 5 stars, but truth be told, i was living this book. even despite having some issues with the pacing.
there are definitely a couple of shocking twists and turns which were all kind of crazy but at the same time so deliciously dramatic i fell for each one.
one thing i liked (besides fie being both an absolute badass and a desperate mess of a seventeen-year-old girl) is the perfect example of an opressive system and the way people are struggling under it. there are characters who try to conform to it, characters who openly resist, characters who benefit from it yet have their eyes opened to the whole injustice and wrongness of it all.
truly don't understand why this particular duology is being overlooked by so many since this is so much in the spirit of the good old ya tradition while implementing all the needed changes.
also, the characters and the relationships between them? what a fucking joy to read. i missed being that excited about a ya fantasy.