lindanyc 's review for:

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

3.0

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Given the awards this book has won and the praise it has received from critics, I expected it to be better than it was. It was not a bad book, but certainly not a 5-star book. While there is a lot of information about hawks and falconry and T.H. White, the book narrated by the protagonist fails to provide the level of introspection that would draw the reader into the narrator's world. The story is interesting, but leaves the reader sitting on the sidelines looking in.