A very strong, solid 3.5 stars. There is a lot going on in Skylark - dystopia, post-apocalyptic, magic, AND steampunk - but Spooner makes it all come together pretty well, for the most part. A few unexpected twists and turns amp up the stakes, and it all reads easily and fast.
*Genre* YA Post Apocalyptic*Rating* 3.0*My Thoughts*Sixteen-year-old Lark Ainsley lives in a society that believes they are the last city on earth. Where innate magic is harvested from kids at a banquet before they are given their grown-up job assignments. She's known as the communities dud since sh...
DNF (Got up to 100 pages)The book was too rushed (not in the good way) for my taste and I wasn't a big fan of how the author saw the need to write down every single detail of the MC's surroundings or what was happening to her. Would have loved to see more story-telling going on. It got boring very q...
Actual rating 3.5 I am not sure why I finally decided to read this one. There were mixed reviews about it and so after a while I finally decided to read it. I should say this first before going on. Initially after finishing the book I really did like it and gave it 4.5 stars… now I’d rather give it ...
Remember when you saw Danny Boyle's Sunshine, and for the first two thirds of it, you were like, "Holy shit, this is the most perfect science fiction movie ever made?" and then the last third happened and you felt stunned and betrayed and...lost? This book is the reverse of that. The first two thi...
Read This Review & More Like It AtAgeless Pages ReviewsWon from http://thebooksmugglers.com/I’ll admit, I’d heard nothing, seen nothing, and had no knowledge of Skylark until someone retweeted Meagan Spooner’s “Sky’s the Limit” contest, in which every entrant would win a prize. I, being a sucker for...
Full Review to be posted soon:Skylark started off a bit slow for me but once the story got going, I really enjoyed the atmosphere and tone of a world filled with magic that feeds clockwork machines, Shadow people, and magic gone wild.
[This review was originally posted at Another Novel Read.]I came to this book not knowing much about the story, and while I did made connections to other books while reading it, it is like nothing else I’ve read. Skylark surprised me in so many ways, and I actually feel refreshed after reading it. I...
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