A review by hellocookie
Black Wings Beating by Alex London

3.0

As much as I wanted to give this book a higher rating, a lot of the world building just didn’t work for me. I didn’t understand the ghost eagle and why it’s powerful, I didn’t understand the religions, the conflict, or the war, and I didn’t understand perpetuating the toxic notion that you have to stick by your family no matter what, even when they’re abusive and actively hurt you. It’s a well-written novel, but too much of it didn’t come together for me to want to carry on reading the rest of the series or for this story stay with me.