Welcome to Litsy!

Once again behind on reviews so let's play catchup!

I think this novella would've benefitted from being a full length novel. I was really interested in the worldvuilding, especially the elements of Zoroastrianism, but it never felt like we got to get deep enough into the story and how the ruhkers train before being paired wirh their rocs. An interesting read but I wanted more.

Loved. It. Lee‘s story about a young woman who becomes a ruhker, someone who trains & works with rocs to hunt manticores, is gripping, in a quiet persistent way, from the first page. The world is intriguing & well developed, Ester & Darius are fabulous characters, & the story of perseverance & hope, letting things go, freedom, and friendship is an engaging one that‘s hard to put down. I really enjoyed this one—yay for the awesome sale shelf find!

Short diverting fantasy read. The author established a full world in a few pages. Fun read. 2.5 🌟

This could have been so much longer and more detailed and I‘d have been fine with that.

Way too short. I would have liked to spend more time in this world.

Pippin and I are enjoying a quiet afternoon with Fonda Lee's upcoming fantasy about a girl who becomes a rukher, flying a legendary roc to protect the kingdom from the manticores that killed her family. It's a tiny book (only 150 pages), but it packs a huge punch.

#ARC #CatsOfLitsy

H Is for Hawk meets Middle Eastern mythology in this quietly fierce, beautifully wrought novella that will hold your heart in its talons. Since childhood, Ester has had a single focus—join the royal rukhers, hunting with rocs, giant, deadly birds of prey capable of killing manticores, the beasts who slayed her family…but the relationship she forges with her roc Zahra and her fellow rukhers will fly Ester far beyond the vengeance she‘s dreamed of.