Help me identify this fantasy novel
March 14, 2016 7:09 PM Subscribe
Sometime in the last month, I read the first few pages of a Kindle ebook on Amazon and loved it, but unfortunately at the time I didn't have the cash to buy it. Now I have the cash but I can't find the book! Can you help me identify it? It's a fantasy novel by a female author.
The protagonist and her mother live in a city consisting of towers, the inhabitants of which get around via flying with strapped-on wings. The mother is a trader and the daughter is shortly to undergo some sort of adulthood trial or test; she has a newly made pair of wings which she can only use once she's passed the test.
At the beginning of the book, a neighbouring tower is sounding the alarm because they're being attacked by a sky monster or sky maw. The defenders of the towers fly around with their strapped-on wings to defeat the monsters. After the attack, the protagonist's mother leaves to fly to a third tower to broker some sort of medicine trade, and the protagonist (illegally) stays outside on the balcony to watch her fly off, and is subsequently attacked by one of these monsters. Somehow she survives but in doing so draws the attention of an authority figure of sorts.
I gather that the rest of the novel consists of her being arrested or taken by this authority figure and having to serve them/their institution, rather than undergoing the aforementioned trial.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Hope me, askme!
The protagonist and her mother live in a city consisting of towers, the inhabitants of which get around via flying with strapped-on wings. The mother is a trader and the daughter is shortly to undergo some sort of adulthood trial or test; she has a newly made pair of wings which she can only use once she's passed the test.
At the beginning of the book, a neighbouring tower is sounding the alarm because they're being attacked by a sky monster or sky maw. The defenders of the towers fly around with their strapped-on wings to defeat the monsters. After the attack, the protagonist's mother leaves to fly to a third tower to broker some sort of medicine trade, and the protagonist (illegally) stays outside on the balcony to watch her fly off, and is subsequently attacked by one of these monsters. Somehow she survives but in doing so draws the attention of an authority figure of sorts.
I gather that the rest of the novel consists of her being arrested or taken by this authority figure and having to serve them/their institution, rather than undergoing the aforementioned trial.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Hope me, askme!
Best answer: "Updraft" by Fran Wilde might be it here
posted by ELind at 7:25 PM on March 14, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by ELind at 7:25 PM on March 14, 2016 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: "Updraft" is the one! Thanks so much, ELind!
(I don't usually download the samples to my Kindle, I just open up the "Look Inside" dialogue, more's the pity.)
posted by snap, crackle and pop at 7:27 PM on March 14, 2016
(I don't usually download the samples to my Kindle, I just open up the "Look Inside" dialogue, more's the pity.)
posted by snap, crackle and pop at 7:27 PM on March 14, 2016
Hah! I know Fran, I'll have to tell her about this...
posted by suelac at 10:06 AM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by suelac at 10:06 AM on March 15, 2016 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: @suelac hah awesome! Tell her I loved the book and I can't wait for more Bone Universe :D
posted by snap, crackle and pop at 8:08 PM on March 30, 2016
posted by snap, crackle and pop at 8:08 PM on March 30, 2016
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posted by ELind at 7:21 PM on March 14, 2016