FICTION

Call Down the Hawk

by Maggie Stiefvater
Scholastic. (Dreamer Trilogy: Bk. 1). Nov. 2019. 480p. Tr $19.99. ISBN 9781338188325.
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Gr 8 Up–Once there were three brothers—Declan, the eldest; Ronan, the middle whose dreams became reality; and Matthew, the youngest who was dreamed into existence by Ronan. After finding a painting of their deceased mother at the Fairy Market, the brothers are drawn into a dangerous world where anything can happen. Magic collides violently with art and dreams in this novel, and every chapter pulls the reader deeper into a story that starts out dark and gets progressively darker, stranger, and more convoluted. Warning: May cause sleepless nights, strange dreams, and obsessive glances over one’s shoulders to make sure nothing is creeping up from behind. A cliff-hanger ending will leave readers impatient for the next book in a projected trilogy.
VERDICT Atmospheric, weird, disjointed, and difficult to follow but intriguing as hell and almost impossible to put down.
Reviewed by Jane Henriksen Baird, formerly at Anchorage Public Library, AK , Oct 01, 2019

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