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Quite simply, Hawk Quest is the best book I've read this year. I loved this book. I wish I'd written it. (Ben Kane )
An 11th-century epic with action to equal the best of Bernard Cornwell. THIS is writing (Anthony Riches )
Only once in a generation does a first novel emerge which has such power and depth and scope. With Hawk Quest, Robert Lyndon has shown himself a master storyteller of the highest quality. An absorbing, viscerally moving epic that takes the standard historical fare of love, treachery, passion, and redemption and lifts them into a new stratosphere. I got lost in this for days on end, and never wanted to emerge. Outstanding! (M.C. Scott )
Lyndon's story carries readers from one vivid scene to the next with great style (Sunday Times )
An 11th-century epic with action to equal the best of Bernard Cornwell. THIS is writing (Anthony Riches )
Only once in a generation does a first novel emerge which has such power and depth and scope. With Hawk Quest, Robert Lyndon has shown himself a master storyteller of the highest quality. An absorbing, viscerally moving epic that takes the standard historical fare of love, treachery, passion, and redemption and lifts them into a new stratosphere. I got lost in this for days on end, and never wanted to emerge. Outstanding! (M.C. Scott )
Lyndon's story carries readers from one vivid scene to the next with great style (Sunday Times )
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A huge, exciting historical adventure epic in the bestselling tradition of Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden and Robyn Young
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
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I literally counted the days until the release of Hawk Quest. A favourite author of mine, Ben Kane, proclaimed the book `bloody brilliant' and his was not the only voice urging me to grab hold of what will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the best novels of 2012 - not just as a work of historical fiction but as a masterful piece of storytelling. It's a weighty tome and I did resist the handy kindle version, opting instead for the entirely non-handy but rather lovely hardback. At almost 700 pages, and they're pages packed densely, your back and shoulder won't thank you as you struggle to carry it around but your aches and pains will be rewarded.
Hawk Quest transports the reader back to England during the 1070s, a time when Normans were stamping their control on their new kingdom. This was a time of cruel justice, stone walls, hunting, starvation and even, as shown here, cannibalism. The novel begins close to the wall left by the Romans, a reminder that this is not the first time that the English have been conquered. Vallon, a Frankish knight, and Hero, a young Sicilian scholar, have a mission. A Norman knight, Walter, has been captured in Anatolia by Seljuk Turks. His ransom is high - four gyrfalcons. Perfectly white, these falcons are found in Iceland and Greenland and traded in Norway. To find them is dangerous but there is something about Walter that makes the risk worthwhile.
With the ransom demand delivered to Walter's family in England, Vallon, Hero, rough German soldier Raul, the English falconer and serf Wayland with his large and silent dog, set off for the north to find the birds, pursued by Walter's jealous brother Drogo and his men. Their quest will take them to the extreme north and west of the known world. They will meet the victims and winners of this violent time - Danes, Vikings, Normans and English, all misplaced and on the move. They will rescue women and fall in love and they will risk their lives, scaling cliffs for falcons, fighting wild beasts, battling slavers, encountering barbarity and true courage, Lap hunters, devious merchants and rulers and they will travel from the north to Russia and Anatolia. Throughout, they tell stories and we learn of the past lives of our heroes and realise the significance of their quest.
Robert Lyndon took a decade to write Hawk Quest and the result is worthy of the effort - it's an ambitious, delicious feast of a novel. Adventure follows adventure and each is as well written, brilliantly imagined and as exciting as the one before and the one that follows. The pace never relents and the quest never diminishes. This is partly because the characters who drive the story on are never static. They change as they travel and as we learn about them it very much feels as if we are on the journey with them. Vallon, Hero, Wayland and the girl Syth are all complex and always interesting and we reap the benefits from their interaction with a cast of fascinating, always well-rounded characters who cross their paths by sea and by land throughout the novel. And then there's the dog...
Hawk Quest is a debut novel. It's difficult to imagine how it could have been improved upon. It certainly succeeds in transporting us back almost 1000 years to a time when the unimaginable could lie just around the corner. I just hope we don't have to wait another ten years for the next Lyndon novel.
Hawk Quest transports the reader back to England during the 1070s, a time when Normans were stamping their control on their new kingdom. This was a time of cruel justice, stone walls, hunting, starvation and even, as shown here, cannibalism. The novel begins close to the wall left by the Romans, a reminder that this is not the first time that the English have been conquered. Vallon, a Frankish knight, and Hero, a young Sicilian scholar, have a mission. A Norman knight, Walter, has been captured in Anatolia by Seljuk Turks. His ransom is high - four gyrfalcons. Perfectly white, these falcons are found in Iceland and Greenland and traded in Norway. To find them is dangerous but there is something about Walter that makes the risk worthwhile.
With the ransom demand delivered to Walter's family in England, Vallon, Hero, rough German soldier Raul, the English falconer and serf Wayland with his large and silent dog, set off for the north to find the birds, pursued by Walter's jealous brother Drogo and his men. Their quest will take them to the extreme north and west of the known world. They will meet the victims and winners of this violent time - Danes, Vikings, Normans and English, all misplaced and on the move. They will rescue women and fall in love and they will risk their lives, scaling cliffs for falcons, fighting wild beasts, battling slavers, encountering barbarity and true courage, Lap hunters, devious merchants and rulers and they will travel from the north to Russia and Anatolia. Throughout, they tell stories and we learn of the past lives of our heroes and realise the significance of their quest.
Robert Lyndon took a decade to write Hawk Quest and the result is worthy of the effort - it's an ambitious, delicious feast of a novel. Adventure follows adventure and each is as well written, brilliantly imagined and as exciting as the one before and the one that follows. The pace never relents and the quest never diminishes. This is partly because the characters who drive the story on are never static. They change as they travel and as we learn about them it very much feels as if we are on the journey with them. Vallon, Hero, Wayland and the girl Syth are all complex and always interesting and we reap the benefits from their interaction with a cast of fascinating, always well-rounded characters who cross their paths by sea and by land throughout the novel. And then there's the dog...
Hawk Quest is a debut novel. It's difficult to imagine how it could have been improved upon. It certainly succeeds in transporting us back almost 1000 years to a time when the unimaginable could lie just around the corner. I just hope we don't have to wait another ten years for the next Lyndon novel.
23 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Quite simply, Hawk Quest is the best book I've read this year (I was lucky enough to read it before the pub. date); and that's saying something in a 12 month period when I've read more novels than I have done in an age. Let me add that I've been really impressed with some of the books I've read in this time, indeed I've really loved some of them. Yet somehow Hawk Quest eclipses them all.
To be frank, this is one of the best books I've read I don't know how long. It's beautifully written, deeply evocative, and oozing with rich detail of the period. Do not worry that this is a dry tome, however - far from it. Lyndon sucks the reader into his world, and his lyrical narrative makes the pages turn by themselves. His disparate group of characters: the brooding but deadly warrior Vallon, the idealistic and naive Hero, the earthy but brutal soldier Raul and the haunted, wraith-like Wayland combine to make a wonderful group of heroes whose travails never seem to end. I loved this book. It is bloody brilliant! I wish I'd written it.
Ben Kane, author of Spartacus: The Gladiator.
To be frank, this is one of the best books I've read I don't know how long. It's beautifully written, deeply evocative, and oozing with rich detail of the period. Do not worry that this is a dry tome, however - far from it. Lyndon sucks the reader into his world, and his lyrical narrative makes the pages turn by themselves. His disparate group of characters: the brooding but deadly warrior Vallon, the idealistic and naive Hero, the earthy but brutal soldier Raul and the haunted, wraith-like Wayland combine to make a wonderful group of heroes whose travails never seem to end. I loved this book. It is bloody brilliant! I wish I'd written it.
Ben Kane, author of Spartacus: The Gladiator.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
An intelligently observed tapestry of epic proportions. Utterly spellbinding.
Sadness, yes, on reaching the end, but this is tempered by a wealth of lingering images to be savoured in the mind's eye for a long, long time after turning the final page.
May I use the Amazon platform to say a heartfelt "thank you" to Robert Lyndon for many winter evenings of magnificent entertainment?
Sadness, yes, on reaching the end, but this is tempered by a wealth of lingering images to be savoured in the mind's eye for a long, long time after turning the final page.
May I use the Amazon platform to say a heartfelt "thank you" to Robert Lyndon for many winter evenings of magnificent entertainment?
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Published 27 days ago by Mr. James S. Penman
Fabulous
For a debut novel, Hawk Quest was certainly ambitious. Indeed one wondered before beginning if this new author had bitten off more than he could chew with a book of this size and... Read more
Published 1 month ago by J. Cooper
Hawk Quest; Had trouble putting it down!!
This is a very good read in the Bernard Cornwall tradition. Good characters, lots of twists and dissapointments for the characters not the reader. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mr. R. C. Hinton
Hawk Quest
A really good read - the Author has the ability to grip the reader from the first page! From Iceland to Russia Hawk Quest is a fantastic book.
Published 1 month ago by Bob
Entertaining enough, but a bit predictable. Not a classic.
I listened to the unabridged audio book read by Ric Jerrom.
Hawk Quest is entertaining enough. It has some good historical and location detail. I finished it! Read more
Hawk Quest is entertaining enough. It has some good historical and location detail. I finished it! Read more
Published 1 month ago by jimmys1984
A great read- more please..
Not the genre I'd normally go for but very glad to have had this book recommended to me. I didn't want it to end- but end it has after some very late night reading sessions. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jon
OK
I read all of the reviews and thought that the book sounded great. The first couple of chapters the book lived up to the reviews. But then it started to become a bit predictable. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Archie
Awesome historical debut saga
This is a brilliant debut novel about the middle ages,robert lyndon is undoutedly an author to watch. Read more
Published 3 months ago by oldginger ebbw vale
When is the next book out
This is the very first book that I have read on my Kindle. I was not sure whether I would enjoy making the transition from paper books to a digital format, so I chose a low priced... Read more
Published 3 months ago by morgan
Disappointing...
I may be in the minority with this but I wasn't that impressed. The characterisation is good as far as it goes although all the familiar tropes are present, that's not a problem... Read more
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