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Call Down the Hawk
480 pages
A surreal, gritty plunge into the dangerous minds of creators whose dreams bleed violently into reality.
What it feels like
This book feels like driving too fast down a dark, winding road with the windows down. It is a masterclass in atmosphere, blending gritty, contemporary realism with a surreal, electric magic system that feels genuinely dangerous. The prose is sharp and lyrical, lingering on sensory details that make the impossible feel tactile and immediate. It is a story about the messy, destructive nature of creation and the heavy burden of holding too much power. The pacing builds deliberately, wrapping the reader in a brooding, dreamlike tension before accelerating into explosive, reality-bending chaos. It will deeply satisfy readers who crave character-driven fantasy where the magic is wild, the protagonists are delightfully flawed, and the world feels like it could shatter at any moment.
- Mood
- surreal
- gritty
- dreamlike
- electric
- Tone
- lyrical
- brooding
- intense
- wry
- Pace
- steady
- Themes
- the burden of creation · blurred reality · dangerous obsessions · identity and art · found family
- The writing
- Sharp, lyrical, and highly sensory, blending poetic abstraction with gritty realism.
- The arc
- Moves from restless isolation and simmering tension to explosive, reality-bending collisions.
- Who it's for
- Readers who love character-driven, atmospheric fantasy with sharp edges, messy protagonists, and magic that feels untamed.
Content notes
- violence
- blood
- mild body horror
- death
About the book
The dreamers walk among us...and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming--they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives--they will sleep forever if their dreamers die.
And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use them. To trap them. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all.
Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality.
Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it.
Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer...and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed...
This description comes from the publisher. Call Down the Hawk is the first book in the Dreamers Trilogy; this is the sequel series to the Raven Boys series, the first of which is The Raven Boys.
Description from Open Library.
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