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Lark Ascending by Meagan Spooner
5.0

The final book in the Skylark trilogy builds to a final confrontation. Lark has returned to her city, to find a city divided. Some have rebelled and moved to the tunnels beneath, while others have moved districts, and The Institute has machines, pixies, and Enforcers patrolling to capture to harness the tiny bits of magic that keep them alive. Then shortly after her arrival, the leadership frees Eve, the Renewable whose power The Institute has been siphoning away to run everything. Half-mad with all that has been done to her, Eve is unstable, unpredictable.

Lark searches for answers of how the world got the way it is, leading her into The Institute's archives and a final earth-shattering struggle.


Power, revenge, sacrifice are all major themes. Eve years for destruction to redress what was done to her; Lark seeks a balanced solution.