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A review by witchyechos
Skylark by Meagan Spooner
2.0
Lower quality than I'm used to. I feel like a lot of teen fiction is rushed and doesn't take time to fully develop their ideas and plotholes.
Good ideas, magic being tamed for non-magicians. People stripped of magic. Mechanics being worked with magic. Everyone being born with a small amount of magic but only a few people who produce it constantly. No romance. Nice plot twists.
Negatives: don't really explain how society has managed to restrict so much freedom/knowledge in light of "the war." Or how "the war" managed to mess up outside life so much that people who don't have magic regrowth turn into monsters/die without magic in the air. I'm sick of dystopian societies that use a 100 years ago "war" to justify why their people are all sheep. Also, why is her brother so mean, and why does she have rooms both at her brothers and her parents houses.
Good ideas, magic being tamed for non-magicians. People stripped of magic. Mechanics being worked with magic. Everyone being born with a small amount of magic but only a few people who produce it constantly. No romance. Nice plot twists.
Negatives: don't really explain how society has managed to restrict so much freedom/knowledge in light of "the war." Or how "the war" managed to mess up outside life so much that people who don't have magic regrowth turn into monsters/die without magic in the air. I'm sick of dystopian societies that use a 100 years ago "war" to justify why their people are all sheep. Also, why is her brother so mean, and why does she have rooms both at her brothers and her parents houses.