Perhaps the most interesting of the characters was the conflicted Sellis, the woman who trains with Kirit to become a Singer. The Singer Wik who reveals secrets to Kirit so slowly it became painful for me to read he could have been so much more and less frustrating at the same time (it often felt like all the secret keeping was a contrivance). There’s Kirit’s best friend Nat, who wants to be a hunter, and can be as reckless as Kirit. A fun, fast read that will engage lots of readers. More than anything, Kirit wants to be a trader like her mother and seeing what the world has to offer. I understood Kirit and her motivations, but I had a hard time really liking her–maybe I read the book too fast, but I’m guessing that the exotic setting required so much attention that the characterization wasn’t as in-depth as it could have been. She’s bold and fearless, but must make the hard decision and do what she doesn’t want in order to protect her mother and those she loves. Kirit is a spirited young woman who becomes caught up in the consequences of her mistakes, but as the story progress we realize there’s more to the events than that. Plus there would be spoilers and I wouldn’t do that to you. There are so many elements to this story I simply can’t cover here.
If your tower isn’t bridged with another, it’s probably because your tower is unlucky or being punished for the lawbreakers who live there.
Everything is grown on the towers (the ground? what’s that?). Singers have implemented strict rules so keep the towers in line. The towers are made from bone that grows upward. UPDRAFT ( Amazon) by Fran Wilde is a wild ride. As a result, her plans to become a trader are threatened because the Singers have discovered Kirit’s ability to scare off skymouths–and they want her ability for their own use, even if it means threatening the people she loves. She attracts the attention of a skymouth–terrifying creatures that snatch and devour the unwary.īut Kirit survives, drawing the attention of the Singers, the city’s protectors. Instead of living her entire life on one tower, she would get to fly from tower to tower, helping the inhabitants of the city, and seeing everything the world has to offer.īut Kirit makes a terrible mistake and doesn’t return inside the tower during a dangerous migration warning, instead sitting on the terrace to watch her mother leave to take medicines to other towers. More than anything Kirit wants to be a trader like her mother.
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