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Original Title:	The Kestrel
ISBN:	0141310693 (ISBN13: 9780141310695)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Westmark #2
Literary Awards:	Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1984), National Book Award Finalist for Children's Fiction (Hardcover) (1983)

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Theo is traveling through Westmark, learning about the country of which he will soon be Prince Consort. He is not surprised to find great poverty-Mickle (now known as Princess Augusta) could have told him that from her years on the street. His friend Florian could have told him about the aristocracy's graft and corruption. But neither could have foreseen a loaded pistol in the practiced hand of the assassin Skeit. The echoes of that shot ring from the muskets and cannons of a Westmark suddenly at war-a war that turns simple, honest men into cold-blooded killers, Mickle into a military commander, and Theo himself into a stranger...

With war in Westmark and the assumption of the throne by Mickle, all Theo's talents are needed, as well as those of his former companions.

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Title	:	The Kestrel (Westmark #2)
Author	:	Lloyd Alexander
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 244 pages
Published	:	June 10th 2002 by Firebird Books (first published April 15th 1982)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Adventure. Childrens

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This is a peculiar book. As I long-time fan of the chronicles of Prydain, I decided this year to take a look at some of Alexander's other writing. The Westmark trilogy made sense as a place to begin, and so I dutifully read Westmark. I found that book to be decidedly mediocre. It wasn't terrible, but it was disjointed, silly, even rather superficial--a series of anecdotal experiences strung together haphazardly with too many characters, too little development, and a tidy ending that strained

Originally reviewed here.A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to attend a Shakespeare Festival in a small town down south. DH and I have gone three times in the last few years, as children and time off work permitted, and each time it's been an utter delight. This year we went with some good friends so it was twice as fun. One afternoon we were in between plays, and I was determined to get back to this little used bookstore we'd visited the last time we made it down. For many years now,

I read this in middle school and remember loving it. I don't remember the details, but I do remember it being my first exposure to political intrigue in a book.

The second in Lloyd Alexander's Westmark Trilogy is an absolute emotional trainwreck of a story. It flawlessly takes the lovable characters of the first story and embroils them in the most intense and traumatic conflict, pushing character and reader alike to their breaking point. Where Westmark dealt with the questions of how do men live virtuously in the face of injustice and, in particular, warfare, The Kestrel throws you into the thick of it and shows what types of moral dilemmas man will

Its as well written as the first book, but now all the rogues are more respectable folk and as they help put down the latest plot for the throne its simply not so exciting, and has kind of put me off the series for now.

Lloyd Alexander is an author I have always enjoyed. This is one of his lesser known series but was actually the first one of his that I read and as such will always be a favorite of mine.This series is one of the reasons I enjoy "period fantasy" so much.

The first time I read it, I initially had trouble getting into The Kestrel, since it started out with a lot of talking about war and politics. But now that I've finished my second re-read, I have found so much more to appreciate in this story, so much that I changed my rating from four stars to five! There is a real sense of growth in the characters and the story since the first book: we see a drastically different side of both Theo and Mickle as they are placed in new and dangerous situations,