Flight of the Hawk

by G. R. Grove

Series: Storyteller series (2), Young Gwernin Trilogy (2)

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Title	Flight of the Hawk
Author	G. R. Grove
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Tags	fiction, historical fiction, wales, dark ages, eBook
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Your review	For a review of the first three books in the Storyteller series, please click here. Flight of the Hawk is an excellent follow-up to Storyteller, following Gwernin once again in his travels and his quest to learn the skills and lore needed to become a bard. In this book, Grove continues with all that make Storyteller such a great book, including the great narrative descriptions of the land and people, the taste of Sixth Century British culture, and the sense of tension and conflict in a land and people beset on both physical and metaphysical planes. There is, in this work, the addition of a stronger sense of action, including bloodshed, than in the previous installment. Grove handles this well, making the action at once both earnest in its danger and honest in its degree and execution. The bards are not superheroes, nor are the warriors they encounter or travel with. Characters are well drawn with strengths and weaknesses in battle both of arms and of wits, and they are all the more believable or them. The one serious drawback for me as a reader is a trap many authors of series fall into, that of using the first few pages of a latter book to recap or even, as in this case, replay the previous installments. This is, however, a personal dislike, and it does not diminish the work as a whole, nor does it make me any less enthusiastic to recommend this book and this series to others.
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Publication	Lulu.com (2007), Paperback, 296 pages
Publication date	2007
ISBN	1430328517 / 9781430328513
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Dewey	813
Primary language eng	English
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Summary 1	Flight of the Hawk by G. R. Grove (2007)
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