Hawksong



Atwater-Rhodes, A. 2003. Hawksong. New York, NY:Delecorte. ISBN: 0-385-73071-3 Hardcover $ 9.95. Age 13+

“Almost before a child of my kind learns to fly, she learns to hate. She learns of war. She learns of the race that calls itself the serpiente… No one knows why we fight. They only know we will continue until we win a war it is too late to win, until we have avenged too many dead to avenge, until no one ca remember peace anymore, even in songs.”( pgs 1-2)

Amid a blood-soaked battlefield, a beautiful 19 year old woman kneels beside a wounded soldier younger than herself. She holds his hand and sings to him a lullaby, her beautiful voice the last thing he hears as he slips away. Standing sadly, she soon faces the harsh reality that her own younger brother has also fallen- yet another victim in an ageless war that has plagued her people for centuries. A war that Danica Shardae, golden haired hawk of the shapeshifter Avian nation, vows to end when she takes the Avian throne.

Zane Cobriana, the dark-haired cobra king of the shapeshifter Serpiente nation is also weary of the centuries old feud, and seeks an end to the bloodshed that has claimed nearly all of his family. Can two individuals from warring nations set aside their differences and bring their people together? Or is the fracture that has divided their people for centuries too deep and too wide to cross? Follow Danica into a beautifully magical and dangerous world as she struggles to find out if peace is truly attainable, or if it will forever remain a lullaby sung from a hawk’s lips.

A wonderful story that includes a beautifully vivid world of magic, shapeshifters and angst, though not particularly long or challenging.

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