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A review by egelantier
Updraft by Fran Wilde
3.0
beautiful, promising, fresh and new worldbuilding - the growing bone towers, life above the ever-dangerous clouds, singers and laws and traditions, bone markers for broken rules that might amount to nothing and might end up with one being a sacrifice to appease the living city, life on a flight and knife fights in darkness - somehow wasted on the cookie-cutter ya dystopia plot and completely forgettable heroine. the first pov doesn't have much: kirit has no discernible voice of her own and neither motivation nor passion to rise her over the ranks of same-face dystopian teenagers finding out the dark secrets at the heart of their ordered universes.
this said, there were several important things that mean i would keep an eye on this author, hoping that for the first book she fit her beautiful new world to the first solid structure she found: i appreciated that there were no romance storyline whatsoever; i liked secondary characters; i liked the scope and the imagination on display. so we should see.
this said, there were several important things that mean i would keep an eye on this author, hoping that for the first book she fit her beautiful new world to the first solid structure she found: i appreciated that there were no romance storyline whatsoever; i liked secondary characters; i liked the scope and the imagination on display. so we should see.