Kirit Densira admires her mother more than anyone. She has
been impatiently waiting the day of her wingtest, so that
she can start training with her mother to be a trader.
Before her test, Kirit accidentally breaks a law, and among
the Towers, Law is the utmost importance. Kirit is then
given a choice: leave her home to train as a Singer, a
secretive group that aids the towers, or face the
consequences.
Shortly after starting UPDRAFT, I got the sneaky suspicion
this would turn into a favorite, and by the end, I was so
in
love with the story I delayed finishing the last few
chapters for
several days. Fran Wilde does a seamless job of crafting a
unique world of bones, songs, traditions, and flight that
feels like your own before you know it. The descriptions
are
perfect, never too lengthy but offers the right amount of
visuals to follow
mentally. The layers of the world with the
different Towers, floors, and creatures are stunning, and I
left the story feeling like I spent an entire series in
this fantasy.
One of the most surprising and refreshing elements of
UPDRAFT is Kirit's character. She is never a chosen one, a
savior, or even beyond extraordinarily talented. She is
skilled and a fast learner, but no one is looking to her
throughout the entire story to fix everything or to be a
hero. She certainly has excellent traits to become a
leader,
but other characters do as well, creating a sense of
community that other stories with bigger hero-esque figures
sometimes lack. Though I love romantic relationships in
stories, the focus on adventure, family, and learning made
me completely forget there isn't one in here as well.
Fran Wilde is a force of talent, and I can't wait to read
more from her. UPDRAFT is exciting, unique, and encompasses
the reader from the very first page.
Welcome to a world of wind and bone, songs and silence,
betrayal and courage.
Kirit Densira cannot wait to pass her wingtest and begin
flying as a trader by her mother's side, being in service to
her beloved home tower and exploring the skies beyond. When
Kirit inadvertently breaks Tower Law, the city's secretive
governing body, the Singers, demand that she become one of
them instead. In an attempt to save her family from greater
censure, Kirit must give up her dreams to throw herself into
the dangerous training at the Spire, the tallest, most
forbidding tower, deep at the heart of the City.
As she grows in knowledge and power, she starts to uncover
the depths of Spire secrets. Kirit begins to doubt her world
and its unassailable Laws, setting in motion a chain of
events that will lead to a haunting choice, and may well
change the city forever-if it isn't destroyed outright.
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