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thopp84 's review for:
All the Birds in the Sky
by Charlie Jane Anders
I wasn't quite sure what to expect from this book. Now that I've finished it, I'm still not sure what to say about it. The first 100 pages are great, easily some of the best writing I've seen in a long time. All the stuff that explores Patricia and Laurence as kids and their early friendship is extremely compelling and Anders crafts a great spell and introduces us to a strange and twisted world.
The middle is where things start to sag. Patricia and Laurence grow up and grow apart and the world descends into chaos, for reasons that are still not entirely clear. The last third of the book felt a bit muddled and a bit rushed to me and it seemed that everything was just left unresolved.
What is great about this book is the writing. The plot needed some polishing but the writing was always solid and always consistent. It made me want to read other stuff by this author.
This book mixes genres and as such it was hard to figure out what it was aiming for. Science fiction? Dystopian fantasy? YA? It had shades of the Magicians; Harry Potter; and even the Chronicles of Narnia.
I did enjoy it even as I also wished that the plot had held together more. Worth the read for sure.
The middle is where things start to sag. Patricia and Laurence grow up and grow apart and the world descends into chaos, for reasons that are still not entirely clear. The last third of the book felt a bit muddled and a bit rushed to me and it seemed that everything was just left unresolved.
What is great about this book is the writing. The plot needed some polishing but the writing was always solid and always consistent. It made me want to read other stuff by this author.
This book mixes genres and as such it was hard to figure out what it was aiming for. Science fiction? Dystopian fantasy? YA? It had shades of the Magicians; Harry Potter; and even the Chronicles of Narnia.
I did enjoy it even as I also wished that the plot had held together more. Worth the read for sure.