Book Review: The Black Hawks (Articles of Faith, #1)
ARC provided by the publisher—Harper Voyager—in exchange for an honest review.
The Black Hawks by David Wragg
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Series: Articles of Faith (Book #1 of 3)
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 429 pages (Kindle edition)
Published: 3rd October 2019 by Harper Voyager
Entertaining, intense, and filled with great lines spoken by morally grey characters to root for.
If you’ve been following the adult fantasy market for the past two years, you’ll most likely realize that the cover art is quite similar to Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames—one of my favorite fantasy debuts of all time. The cover art is done by the same artist—Richard Anderson—and as always, he never fails to deliver a striking/distinctive artwork. Excluding the similarity in cover art, does the content actually provided something similar to Kings of the Wyld? It would have to be a no from me. The exposure and advertisements I’ve seen for The Black Hawks so far have led me to think that this is an overwhelmingly comedic and light-hearted book; I have to disagree with this notion. Sure there are some funny lines embedded into the narrative, such as this description about wolves for example:
“To think I left Clyden for this. Eaten by a fucken dog with a hairstyle.”