author: Fran Wilde
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2015
rating: 3
read at: 2016/07/06
date added: 2016/07/06
shelves: sword-and-laser, young-adult
review:
'Updraft' by Fran Wilde features an interesting world along with an all too familiar YA plotline.
Kirit Densira lives in a tower made of living bone. She wants to earn her wings and get a trade like her mother, but it all goes awry when she and her friend Nat have an encounter with creatures called Skymouths that are like flying worms with nothing but teeth. Kirit also along the way uncovers some truths about her past and some things that endanger her present.
In the tradition of a lot of these stories, Kirit is the chosen one. Only she can do the thing that needs to be done and she learns the skills faster than anyone else. It's a pasted on plot from any number of current YA novels.
The worldbuilding is good, but I wanted more. Perhaps we'll get that in the sequels to come. There were some interesting things with the environments, but I wanted more about these weird bone towers than about the protagonists.
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