5/21/2023 0 Comments Updraft by Fran WildeLike her mother, Kirit is a boundry pusher, a trait quickly landing her in trouble with the Singers - the magic-wielding, iron-fisted governing body who rule from the Spire, a monolithic tower at the centre of the city. The novel’s protagonist and narrator, Kirit Densira, is a plucky youngster who idolizes nobody more than her mother Ezarit, one of the bravest traders in the bone city. Updraft is a novel about family and privilege, succeeding through an almost overwhelming sense of empathy and courage. Threats abound - including a sky that will (literally) swallow you whole in its toothy maw - but nothing is more dangerous than the ambitions and hidden loyalties of the people you most trust. People fly on wings of leather and bone, trading commodities and news between tower-based communities separated by miles of bottomless sky. High above the clouds, a city of bone scrapes the heavens, growing ever higher in its race to escape the blood-stained land below. Fran Wilde’s Updraft is set in a world unlike any I’ve visited before.
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