Books On Our Radar: Black Wings Beating by Alex London
Black Wings Beating by Alex London has a concept that I am so excited to read! Falconry and GLBTQ fantasy sounds like so much fun. Plus I just love Alex. The first time I met him, was at YallWest 2015 and he was passing out little samplers of his book. He just had such great energy. More recently he had me laughing for the entire night at the Fierce Reads party after BEA. Honestly, I would read anything he wrote at this point because I just adore him as person. BUT doesn’t Black Wings Beating sound really intriguing? Queer heros in an epic fantasy? YES PLEASE! Check out the book trailer & first chapter here! Add this one to your fall reading TBR in advance of the September 25th release!
Black Wings Beating (Skybound #1) by Alex London
Category: Young Adult, Fantasy
Publication: September 25th, 2018; Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Purchase: Amazon
The people of Uztar have long looked to the sky with hope and wonder. Nothing in their world is more revered than the birds of prey and no one more honored than the falconers who call them to their fists.
Brysen strives to be a great falconer–while his twin sister, Kylee, rejects her ancient gifts for the sport and wishes to be free of falconry. She’s nearly made it out, too, but a war is rolling toward their home in the Six Villages, and no bird or falconer will be safe.
Together the twins must journey into the treacherous mountains to trap the Ghost Eagle, the greatest of the Uztari birds and a solitary killer. Brysen goes for the boy he loves and the glory he’s long craved, and Kylee to atone for her past and to protect her brother’s future. But both are hunted by those who seek one thing: power.
