Review: But Where's the Bird?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 22, 2014
I enjoyed this book and would add a half star to my rating if I could. Last Falcon is very well written and character driven. The book does contain many of the current fantasy cliches: we have an apparently prophecied herione with powers she does not yet realize, a super-evil villain with hateful henchmen, a dangerous quest, many innocent victims, and too many fortuitous coincidences. So far, we do not have any romance, but this is only Book One.I like the character Erynn, and I do want to see her succeed. I suspect that warning the Crown Prince will prove only the beginning of her tasks, that she will also need to locate her mother, learn to work with a dragon, and of course destroy the Evil Queen. In the meantime, however, unless the title refers to the one bird sitting in the falconry, l do wonder why the author ends this book so abruptly. (I mean, besides wanting to make us buy the next book.)At any rate, the series appears to have multiple layers, and I like that. I also enjoy most of the twists--though I regret some of the plot-necessary deaths.