sociallyawkward_bookworm 's review for:

Searching for Sky by Jillian Cantor

4.0

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Sky and River have always lived on Island. It's the only thing that they know until River spots a boat that spirits them away across Ocean. Back to the strange land named California that Sky's mother had told her about before she died. Where people are skeletons. Sky is separated from River and forced to live with a woman she's told is her grandmother. Nothing makes sense in California. Everything is different and the one person she knows and trusts is gone. Sky yearns for the world that she knew. She has to find River and together they can return to Island where things make sense and where newspaper clippings don't show her images of a past full of secrets that threaten to change her forever.

This is a unique gem in the dystopian sea. Sky and River are used to living without modern day gadgets and think that they're the only ones left in the world. After they are "rescue" and brought back to modern day California they realize that this is far from the case. I found the premise wholly fascinating. Seeing our world through Sky's eyes as she tries to learn new rules and about modern technology was amusing and heartbreaking. This book will be for those that enjoy a good slower paced story that focuses heavily on human emotions more than any "big" fast paced events.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.
Publication Date: May 13, 2014