Conversations with an Eagle: The Story of a Remarkable Relationship Book

In this heartwarming true story Conversations with an Eagle by Brenda Cox, Brenda volunteered at O.W.L. (Orphaned Wild Life) Recovery Centre to earn a semesters worth of student loans while attending university. She ends up falling in love with an eagle that has come to the centre and has been deemed unreleasable. The eagle is very dangerous and unpredictable, but that doesn't turn her away from the challenge of trying to glove train this eagle known as Ichabod. By glove training the eagle, it will give it a chance to stay at O.W.L., if her attempt doesn't work than the eagle will have to be euthanized because no one else will enter her enclosure. This put a lot of pressure on Brenda knowing that the decision on whether the eagle lived or died was on her shoulders.

Conversations with an Eagle was not a very suspenseful book, and was not a page turner. I actually found it fairly boring at times and it took me a while to finish reading it. I did like the overall story though, but it's probably a book that I won't read again.

The writing within the book was good quality, there was a lot of detail, description, and emotion. There is not much that the author could've done better because it was a true story so she was just telling it as it was, and I respect that.

I think that a potential audience for this book would be other wildlife rehabilitators. They could probably all connect and relate to this story and it may give them some helpful tips if they are going through a similar situation at their centre. Another group that I would recommend this to would be falconers or people looking to pursue falconry.

Overall the book was good but like I said I probably wouldn't pick it up again. I would not recommend it to everyone unless they had an interest in falconry or wildlife rehabilitation. Brenda's determination and all of the hard work, blood, sweat, and tears she put into helping the eagle was very inspiring.