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izilen 's review for:
All the Birds in the Sky
by Charlie Jane Anders
On paper, this book should have been all that I adore: magic in our everyday world, technology coming together with magic, an exploration of the ethics that come with great power (magical or scientific), kids that are Special Friends, AIs that are people, etc etc. Unfortunately, and though Anders's writing is compelling and quite readable, the thing didn't really hold together for me. I think it was trying to be too many things, all at once, and to say something profound, and didn't quite achieve it.