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Submitted by sunny 
(Jun 20, 2004)

This book was a very mature and well thought out book. Far different from your other books, which I also loved. This was a coming of age book and has moved me. In a time in my life when I needed to find new understanding it has helped enormously. It has inspired me to meet my potential, and write. You have helped me turn my life around with this book. I can not wait for the rest of the series.

In the last few years majority of the books I read were classics and I have never been a hopeless romantic, but lately I have gotten into an odd mood. To satisfy this mood I went in search for books that would satisfy a few requirements. The book had to be light in tone, contain romance set in a magical fantasy world, with a good cast of 'grey' characters.

I can assure you it was excessively hard to find any books that satisfied all my requirements but I found it.

At first I was worried because everything else Amelia Atwater-Rhodes wrote before were about teenage girls falling for darkly handsome vampires for absolutely no reasons except they seem to understand them. After reading a few reviews and short summaries about this book, however, I knew that was not the case and that I would not be at ease until I read it.

Sure, the plot was somewhat predictable, but what can one really do with two handsome leaders of opposite genders with alike ideals and hated each other in the beginning? Surely, you cannot expect these two people to fight to their death unless you are trying to convey existentialism.

In any case, there were definitely parts that surprised me, a person proud of her ability to predict story-line.

One of the best qualities of this book was the characters. They were three dimensional, not flat but dynamic. They were not annoying; they were considerate but not overly so. They are who I think I would be if I am in the situation. That's why I like them: I can relate to them.

A bad point about this book would be the fact it doesn't develops each character full to their potential. Though, I suppose that could be explained by the fact that it was written in first person, which tends to develop the few people the central character interacts with the most much more than other ones.

The ending was not as rushed as some other people said in their reviews. I've read much more rushed books, although I think intentions of the antagonists could be stated more clearly. I like where the book ends. Its not like I am interested in reading about their future in any case. I don't want to read about children. I just wanted to read about the main characters in their teenage years, and for that I was satisfied.

*PS*
Don't worry parents, where were no 'bad' conducts in the book. They just slept next to each other, they kept their virtues.

This book was unlike anything I had expected from Rhodes. I was expecting to find something about shap-shifters that were mentioned in the other books. I think that this book truly shows Rhodes ability to entertain her audience not just with the tradition vampire stories that we have come to know her for, but also to entertain us with the story that hints of another world that co-exists right underneath our noses. I congratulate Rhodes for this book and wonder what surprises her next book will entail.

I got a hold of Hawksong as a gift from my mother and sister, they got me three books, but only one was by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes.

I decided after reading what each book was about to read Hawksong first, making the choice I would like the others better. I was very wrong. Hawksong is by far the best book I have ever read, I am supposed to get Amelia's other works at Christmas.

My favorite book has always been White Fang by Jack London, and I thought it might stay that way for a long period of time. It did, for a while at least. The first time I read it I was seven, now I'm eleven and it is still a favorite of mine, but Hawksong has pushed its way up to my first favorite, leaving White Fang at second.

Though Jack London takes you into the story, that's all it is- a story. When Amelia Atwater-Rhodes writes a story, it's never just a story. You're in the story before you finish reading the first page. Not only are you in the story, you feel like a character. It feels like the story is happening before your eyes, I am told I have a way with words- for making very good excuses or getting myself out of trouble mostly- but I cannot find the exact words to describe how the words are written with such passion, or how they spin off and flow together endlessly.

I have said I cannot describe this story, so I could just be a foolish child, I am after all only eleven years into this world. But I do have a few words I have dug out of a few distant parts of my brain.

Magnificent, a word used loosely of course, but magnificent this story is, beautiful, original, and impartial. I love the way Amelia uses personification, and if I could find the right words at this moment to describe her writing I would, but I'm afraid I can only use the simple words above that say nothing of Amelia's unique writing and I congratulate her one million times over of her deep stories.

For the past two years, I believe that I've been enthralled with Amelia Atwater-Rhodes' books- up to the point while, on a trip to Boston, I stopped by Hartford simply to look at the area in which Amelia (Amy) grew up.

Hawksong, Amelia's latest book, has not disappointed me. Yes, at first her dialogue needed some work, but she has been improving rapidly. One of my favorite authors, Amelia provides an excellent read with an unusual sense of darkness each time. Each time, her book is more mature, more relaxed; soon she'll be writing without any restraints at all. Her books have been slowly becoming more romantic, more sexual, more dangerous; and I predict that they will continue in this vein.

Hawksong focuses on Danica and Zane, leaders of great, but very opposite nations. Zane's people are serpents when in their second skin; they love beauty and are hotheaded. Danica's people can become various types of birds. These people are in the midst of a great war in which many loved ones die; no one knows how it had started because it had stretched on for so long. Danica and Zane believe that, if they are married, the two worlds will bond and the war will end. But how can they do this when so much blood has been shed, and so much trust lost?

Like I said previously, Amelia has managed to enthrall me yet again with her imaginative, romantic books. Hawksong is one more book I can add to my list of the best books of the decade.