Take a photo of a barcode or cover
destrier 's review for:
All the Birds in the Sky
by Charlie Jane Anders
This book grabbed me from the beginning with an interesting world and characters, and a completely rambling madcap plot. I wanted to read a sentence on each page out loud to my family. I would have given it five stars after the first ten chapters.
And then it grinds down into a generic YA climate + plague dystopia [which in the year 2022 deserves a trigger warning on the cover, frankly] full of truly painful sex scenes and increasingly obnoxious characters. The book sets out an equivalence of magic and technology from the beginning which sounds fun but has no depth as it progresses.
By the last few chapters I was dragging myself to the end, hoping the characters would die or that there would be some revelation to redeem the atrocious second half. I'm mad at the book for starting so well and then failing to ignite.
And then it grinds down into a generic YA climate + plague dystopia [which in the year 2022 deserves a trigger warning on the cover, frankly] full of truly painful sex scenes and increasingly obnoxious characters. The book sets out an equivalence of magic and technology from the beginning which sounds fun but has no depth as it progresses.
By the last few chapters I was dragging myself to the end, hoping the characters would die or that there would be some revelation to redeem the atrocious second half. I'm mad at the book for starting so well and then failing to ignite.