A review by maggieandherbooks12
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

2.0

I couldn't finish this book, maybe giving up 3/4 of the way through. I was excited to check this out because it's a nature memoir about grief, and one of my favourite books is similar, Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams. Having lost my mother at a young age and as an environmental studies student, I thought this book would be right up my ally. Maybe I simply have no interest in falconry, but I found this book a total bore. Some of the prose was pretty, but that's the only reason I kept reading. It didn't seem to have much of a plot and I had no interest in the narrator. It won a lot of awards, but life is too short to continue reading something just because of high praise.