A review by themoonwholistens
The Hawkman: A Fairy Tale of the Great War by Jane Rosenberg LaForge

3.0

// Thanks to Amberjack Publishing and Netgalley for the ARC to review //

“this a story of a man who thought he was a bird and the woman who helped him find his humanity again”

Oh gosh the writing was so beautiful <3

It had a very strong start that built a really solid foundation for the events that happened throughout the book as it progressed. It destroyed my heart a bit in the process as well, but it's all good.

The writing, plot, and setting of the story made it feel like a classic. And those were mostly the vibes I was getting as I read it. It's very rare that I encounter stories like these since they are really hard to pull of and this was pulled of beautifully even though this is not within the genre or the stories that I would normally read.

“because the problem with the rich is that they must own everything”

“the poor are so often denied the luxury of a quick death”


It explored the realities of the social hierarchy which I do not think is seen very much in YA and NA books (the genres I mostly read).

It had very strong characters. My favorite thing about relationship that the male and female MC was how they were both strong individually but still admitted to the fact that they need each other.It is also a very rare thing to see both love interests as "strong" in a book since it is usually just one or the other. I liked how they developed and how they showed how they got to the point that they were in the end.

I was worried going into this book as a lot of people are when going into books like these but it was pulled off quite nicely for the plot.