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Booktalk
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Ever heard of shapeshiffting?
Hawksong is a wonderful novel
that will captivate you from the first page. It combines fantasy
with romance and keeps the reader hooked until the very end. Atwater-Rhodes’
unique style of writing really shines through in this novel. Find
out how far your imagination can be stretched in Hawksong. (Haley Rogers,
South
Carolina Book Awards, 2006)
Booktalk #2
“I took a deep breath to steady
my nerves and narrowly avoided retching from the sharp, well-known stench
that surrounds me. The smell of hot avian blood spattered on the stones,
and cool serpiente blood that seemed ready to dissolve the skin off my
hands if I touched it. The smell of burned hair and feathers and skin of
the dead smoldered in the fire of a dropped lantern.” War. This is the
only thing that Danica Shardae, an avian shapeshifter and heir to the avian
throne, has ever known. The war with the serpiente has been raging on for
so long, no one can remember how it all began. Danica is tired of the war,
tired of the endless bloodshed. As heir to the avian throne, she is willing
to do anything in her power to end the bloodshed—even if that means accepting
Zane Cobriana, leader of the terrifying serpiente, the avian’s greatest
enemy, as her mate and bind the two royal families. In public, Danica must
pretend to be in love with Zane, but in private, her reserve threatens
to keep two young people and their worlds apart. She must discover how
to trust Zane and his people, while overcoming her own fears that he will
attack her and her people as his deadly animal form–a cobra. Now, Danica
and Zane, who both long for peace, must stop the rebels who are trying
to destroy the fragile peace and convince their people to trust in them
and trust in peace. Oklahoma
Sequoyah Young Adult Book Award nominee, 2005-2006 |
