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A review by wordrevel
We Walked the Sky by Lisa Fiedler
5.0
Initial thoughts: I was browsing Libby for an audiobook to borrow and listen to on the spot when the cover of We Walked the Sky caught my eye. How could it not when I'm a sucker for circus settings? Plus the visual is really striking with a tightrope walker caught between two different worlds.
So yeah, this one's what I most definitely call a happy surprise and a pretty cover design matching a good book. while it did start out a little slow, and it took me a while to find my bearings as the narration alternated between the lives of two girls — one of a girl who ran away to the circus, and one decades later of her granddaughter who was uprooted from the circus. Since there was only one narrator instead of two, I had to pay much closer attention to chapter headings than I usually do but after some time I got the rhythm and was completely swept up in the story.
I particularly enjoyed the exploration of family myth, how the late grandmother's past affected the granddaughter's present, and how the secrets not even the mother knew had a huge bearing on their identities in the world.
So yeah, this one's what I most definitely call a happy surprise and a pretty cover design matching a good book. while it did start out a little slow, and it took me a while to find my bearings as the narration alternated between the lives of two girls — one of a girl who ran away to the circus, and one decades later of her granddaughter who was uprooted from the circus. Since there was only one narrator instead of two, I had to pay much closer attention to chapter headings than I usually do but after some time I got the rhythm and was completely swept up in the story.
I particularly enjoyed the exploration of family myth, how the late grandmother's past affected the granddaughter's present, and how the secrets not even the mother knew had a huge bearing on their identities in the world.