![]() ![]() I thought it was interesting that Smith chose to focus on the characters she did. Duncan and Swan are wealthy and spoiled, but the city they live in is crumbling around them burned by the twin flames of dragons that ceaselessly circle the sky. The Sky is Yours focuses on a former reality star, Duncan Humphrey Ripple V and his new wife Baroness Swan Lenore Dahlberg and Abby, a wild girl who Duncan met after he crashed in a garbage dump. ![]() Interestingly the author seems to have written them purposefully that way, comparing them in an interview to the characters in The Magicians series, which we had noted in the book discussion group here at the library are quite a contemptible bunch. The Sky is Yours is a very creative and beautiful written story with characters that I found myself disliking intensely. Check them out and see what you think!įans of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian post-apocalyptic works such as Oryx and Crake and The Heart Goes Lastshould enjoy The Sky is Yours. Two of my recent speculative fiction reads both focused on people I found myself disliking despite enjoying the books. ![]()
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