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A review by fishface
The Hyena and the Hawk by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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 ...
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 ...