A review by cyndqls
The Sky on Fire by Jenn Lyons

3.5

Thank you Tor, NetGalley, and Macmillan Audio for an ARC and advanced listening copy in exchange for an honest review!

3.5!

The Sky on Fire is a plot-forward dragon heist novel, and I had a lot of fun while reading it. I do quite like Lyons’ writing, and I think the world was really neat, though while I appreciate that this is a standalone, part of me wishes more time got spent exploring it. While I enjoyed myself while reading, afterwards I did find that it didn’t leave as strong of an impression as I had assumed it would. At the time of reading, I liked the characters, but after they felt more like broad strokes gestures than fully fleshed out characters. The bones of something I could be obsessed with are here, but ultimately they’re just bones. It was a fun and relatively easy read for me, but I definitely think this is in part because I was reading the audio and was able to flip through an ARC if I wanted to reference something.

I liked Lauren Fortgang’s narration, and I think the audio helped smooth out some things I would have been more bothered by had I been reading exclusively with my eyes.