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A review by schneefink
The Hyena and the Hawk by Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.0
4.5 The grand finale! And it was. Several of my favorite characters survived who I didn't think would, that was a very nice surprise, and yet it (barely) felt like they had plot armor. Several times I thought I knew where the story was going and then something unexpected happened, that was also nice. The villains were great.
The only reason I don't give this 5 stars was because this is basically a book about fighting colonizers, which is impossible to do without real-world parallels, and some of them made me uncomfortable, like the colonizers thinking the natives are literal animals and then actually turning them into mindless beasts. I generally liked how it was resolved, but I'll have to think on it a bit more.
The only reason I don't give this 5 stars was because this is basically a book about fighting colonizers, which is impossible to do without real-world parallels, and some of them made me uncomfortable, like the colonizers thinking the natives are literal animals and then actually turning them into mindless beasts. I generally liked how it was resolved, but I'll have to think on it a bit more.