Secure Your Copy Hawk Quest Articulated By Robert Lyndon Available Through Volume

book had my interest from the beginning, The story of a man's quest for white falcons takes him to Iceland, Greenland, Russia and Byzantium.
The first part kept my interest, but when he arrives in Iceland and goes to Greenland, it begins to lag.
I would have preferred it to be aboutpages shorter, A well written novel with deep detail and agreeable characters though one that moves at such a slow pace you find yourself almost willing it along.
If it were a mule, you'd have flogged it raw by the time you even reach the middle point.


At around six hundred and fifty pages long, for a hardback it's a slow long slog.
Bear in mind that the majority of paperback versions of novels rarely have so many pages let alone the hardback which is more often than not at least a couple of hundred pages shorter.


Considering it's painted as being a quest to capture gyrfalcons from the far icy north, the main characters don't even leave England till overpages in.

Not to mention the sudden plot flaw that's just occurred to me, namely that the entire reason the crew are on the 'quest' to begin with to bankroll the release of a Norman knight for Duke Of Olbec hits somewhat of a hurdle when they are forced to go on the run from the Sir Walter's family, leaving you asking yourself why are they still bothering to go capture the falcons

The author also has a rather annoying habit of throwing random smugly obscure words like 'runagates' into sentences almost just to prove he knows what they mean, which has the effect of distracting you from the story at hand.


Overall a richly detailed if remarkably slow, dawdling novel with no discernible sense of urgency, no immediacy and little to grip or intrigue you but will entertain well enough for a certain amount of time.
Nothing at all here that would make me recommend it to a friend or someone looking for a book on the Normans not least because they barely feature in the novel at all really.


When it's good it's good, When it's not good yeah.

There's a lot of the boring parts of adventuring that you don't normally see, like how long it takes or the boring conversations you do when you're just walking.


However, when it get good like romance or action, it's actually enjoyable, I just wish it wasn't so spread out,

Note: this is full of blunt not graphic sexual topics, The author mentioned in the extras that he would never write full sex scenes which we stan.
However, there are a few moments of actions that surprised me the most "graphic" one being on pageIt's one of those at the very end of the chapter.
You'll know when you get there, so be forewarned,

Recommendedfor violence, langauge, period racism to pretty much everyone, sensual and "blunt not graphic" sexual content, and teenage pregnancy.
Bookof the Vallon series first published,

This was an adventure of epic proportions, An adventure that covered all of the known world as of, The journey starts in England and goes onto, Iceland, Greenland, Russia and ends up in Turkey and all places in between.


This quest is undertaken to procure four very rare hawks that can only be found in the wilds of Greenland.

The hawks are needed as a ransom to free a Norman Knight who was capture by the Turks at the battle of Manzikert in.


The quests company comprises of, Vallon a French soldier of fortune, Wayland an English Faulkner, Hero a Greek scholar, Raul a Germany mercenary soldier and Richard a Norman and brother to the captured Knight.


Not only will this journey test the questers ability to survive in some of the harshest environments known to man but this will also be a journey of self awareness.
The people who start this journey will not be the same people at its end,

I really enjoyed this read, Its not a lean book by any means but, for all that, never once did I find it a drag to read.
And who would have thought that training a hawk could make for such riveting reading,

Highly recommended entertainingstar read, Dangit! I really wanted to like this book! I love historical fiction, I love hawking, I love a good action story, and I love the kinds of characters included in this story.
Unfortunately, Lyndon doesn't deliver.
Point of view shifts don't generally bother me, as they may be necessary to tell a complex story.
What bothers me about point of view in Hawk Quest is that it shifts from one person to another in the middle of paragraphs, and frequently without reason.
The characters aren't given equal airing, and their complexities aren't fully explored before someone else comes on the scene.
It's as if the characters aren't the author's chief interest, so he skips from event to event, letting whoever's present tell what's happening, regardless of the intended audience's interest in that person.

While I'm talking about character, I'd just like to make a quick visit to the cutout nature of the women.
They're all second bananas, included only for the purpose of validating the men in the story, and while I understand the nature of the social role women took in society at this time in the world, I also know that the Salerno medical school allowed women to study and become doctors, and that Eleanor of Aquitaine went on a Crusade with her daughter not long after this.
Chaucer wrote the Wife of Bath not long after this, Women were an integral part of the social and economic fabric of the world during this time, and allowing them to do nothing but bathe in volcanic pools and lie on their backs and think of England isn't the most interesting thing to do with a character.

It's a shame that such a brilliant plot idea the quest to bring four gyrfalcons to the Middle East from Greenland falls so short.
I think it is a focus on plot that causes the problem, though, as such an epic journey eventually causes plot fatigue.
We really have to care about the characters to carry us through, and there isn't enough time spent on making them real to warrant the required enthusiasm.
Dynamic and exciting. I truly recommend this novel to those who like so called travel type of novels“ where characters have certain goal and approach it, so the action is settled among various landscapes and realms.
The novel is lack of redundant details and tedious descriptions, Gradation is present, and the reading is fluent, Description of the characters isnt comprehensive, but exactly that I demand to find in literature lack of gossip urge of one to find out every single detail about lifetime or certain feelings of characters, because, even in private life I dont like those facts.
The descriptions of the battles are very interesting and vivid like they are settled in front of our very eyes.
In some critical parts of the novel, the writer gives psychological review and conscience recall of characters, which makes the fabula even more interesting.
This adventure took a place in time when the honor and the vow were holy, I do like such novels, because in nowadays, we are abridged of those values,

Dinamično i uzbudljivo, Preporučio bih da pročitaju oni, koji kao ja, vole tzv, knjige pokreta gde junaci imaju određeni cilj i kreću ka njemu, te se radnja romana ne odvija na jednom mestu, već u okviru različitih predela.
Roman nije pretrpan detaljma

niti dosadnim opisima, Jasno se uočavaju celine i prelazi i stranice same klize između, Opisi likova nisu detaljni ni duboki, ali upravo to i volim da nađem u literaturi bez tračerskog poriva da se sazna i najmanji delić o životu ili osećanjima nekog od likova, jer me te stvari ni u privatnom životu ne intrigiraju.
Tu su vrlo detaljni opisi bitaka i sukoba u koje upadaju glavni junaci, i ti delovi su izuzetno zanimljivi.
Takođe, pisac daje psihološki osvrt i opoziv savesti na prelomnim mestima u toku putovanja junaka, što, takođe, boji samu radnju romana.
Radnja se odvija u vreme kada su čast i reč bili na ceni, O tome uvek volim da čitam, jer danas toga skoro i da nema,
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