Reviews

The Hyena and the Hawk by Adrian Tchaikovsky

tokujoe's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

bookworm5732's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

shoelessgirl's review against another edition

4.0

Solid end to the series.

olegx's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

onanotherplanet's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.5

leeleet's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

majestic_socks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

manem92's review against another edition

3.0

And so the story end. I am gonna miss a lot of these characters. In the end the story was good and the reader grew on me. I will be recommending this to friends. You can find the audiobook for this on Spotify, if anyone was looking.

nanotyrann's review against another edition

fast-paced

4.5

This is an excellent conclusion to the Echoes of the Fall trilogy, with a great lead up to the finale, whichs events will certainly become a myth/legend in world and they already feel that way on the page, just with all the not story fitting details future tellings will leave out, all the hidden heroes cut for the storytellers biases. 

fishface's review against another edition

5.0

This had all the good aspects of a final book, as it brought together the main characters and upped the scale of the action. Even characters from the first book that I thought wouldn’t appear again (shout-out to Alladai <3 ) turned up, giving it a neatly tied together ends to the relationships between characters. It also benefited from a quite open ending - the future of the plague people and our heroes left to our imagination.

As for the ending, i thought it showed that in order to make peace with each other, they must first see each other as humans, rather than soulless monsters or mindless animals. I thought it was a metaphor for colonialism or religious conflict for a while, and you could draw links to that, but ultimately it’s high fantasy and those ideas fell apart in the last few chapters of the book... what can I say bug people are cool ...