
The Sky Is Yours
A Novel
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Kirsten Potter
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY:
Wall Street Journal • NPR • New York Public Library • LitHub • Mental Floss
“Influenced by the likes of Jane Austen and Rick and Morty, Smith tackles timely issues while leaving room for some delicious reality TV references.” (Entertainment Weekly)
In the burned-out, futuristic city of Empire Island, three young people navigate a crumbling metropolis constantly under threat from a pair of dragons that circle the skies. When violence strikes, reality star Duncan Humphrey Ripple V, the spoiled scion of the metropolis' last dynasty; Baroness Swan Lenore Dahlberg, his tempestuous, death-obsessed betrothed; and Abby, a feral beauty he discovered tossed out with the trash; are forced to flee everything they've ever known. As they wander toward the scalded heart of the city, they face fire, conspiracy, mayhem, unholy drugs, dragon-worshippers, and the monsters lurking inside themselves.
In this bombshell of a novel, Chandler Klang Smith has imagined an unimaginable world: scathingly clever and gorgeously strange, The Sky Is Yours is at once faraway and disturbingly familiar, its singular chaos grounded in the universal realities of love, family, and the deeply human desire to survive at all costs.
Praise for The Sky Is Yours:
“It’s a mesmeric world, comic in the way teenage voyages of self-discovery inevitably are, but with an undertone of menace, horror, even hints of allegory. Satire, too . . . Smith’s imagination is inexhaustible. The Sky Is Yours is a great and disturbing debut, which colonizes a new realm of the magic city.” (The Wall Street Journal)
“Smith’s gifts of imagination are staggering.... Much like Lev Grossman’s The Magicians and Charlie Jane Anders’s All the Birds in the Sky before it, The Sky is Yours filters youth through a warped yet poignantly canny speculative fiction lens. At the same time, it’s funny as hell, full of madcap detail, firecracker dialogue, and a healthy dose of absurdism in the face of darkness.” (NPR)
“Readers who love ambitious literary genre fiction should be on the lookout for Smith’s first novel, a vibrantly uncanny dystopia set on an island metropolis, in the shadow of dragons that swoop overhead, where income inequality and mass incarceration have spun out of control.” (HuffPost)
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"Hyperimaginative...Smith's novel calls to mind the works of Nick Harkaway and Game of Thrones.... An auspicious debut with enough inventiveness for two novels." (Publishers Weekly)
"Chandler Klang Smith comes roaring out the gate with a raucous, inventive gem of a debut. Science fiction, coming of age, and adventure novel, The Sky Is Yours blends its genres brilliantly. To top it all off the book is funny as hell." (Victor LaValle, author of The Ballad of Black Tom and The Changeling)
"Brilliant, darkly hilarious, and almost impossible to describe. Imagine if Terry Gilliam adapted a coming-of-age adventure set in William Gibson's dystopian sprawl and threw in a dash of Jane Austen. I loved it." (Scott Hawkins, author of The Library at Mount Char)
, the economic divide, sense of entitlement, and the use of dragons in fiction. I want to listen to it a second time already so I can pick up new things.
New Fantasy headliner
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Disappointing
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Most perfect author and narrator combo ever
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What a story. Smart. Dragons but not really.
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I also want to give kudos to the narrator. apparently I've already listened to her in the book Amatka as well. She seamlessly transitions from male to female, young to old. she can depict humorous and somber tones alike. I can't wait for her to record more!
satirical dystop. urban fantasy & amazing narrator
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Firstly, a LOT happens in this book. It would be a lot if we were following one of the three main characters' stories, yet we try to follow all three plus some side characters. Consequently, the action is very start and stop. We follow characters into situations and then time jumps forward a bit and they get tossed into a new situation without our being able to understand the consequences/implications of the first situation. As a result, it is hard to get involved in character development (if there really is any). The book is about either Duncan or Swanny or Abbey at any given time, but their stories have little relevance to one another.
As a result of so many things going on, the book leaves tons of unanswered questions. Things that should have been super cool bits end up just dangling loose ends. Swanny's teeth are the best example of this. Smith introduces her by saying she grew up in the mansion with only her mother and the dentist. Which is an awesome way to raise questions. Slowly we learn more about the teeth. But in the end, this neat thing turns out to be no more consequential than if Swanny had, say, green hair. By the time she gets to the chaw shop, it basically never comes up again. It's a huge lost opportunity. This sort of lack of follow-through plagues the whole book.
When I finished the book, I felt that there were huge unanswered questions about the premise. Like, is it really dystopia if only one city is affected by these dragons? Is Empire City actually New York City, and if so, why not say so? What happened to the rest of the world? Are they just going along like Empire City isn't constantly on fire? If you are going to invent a city for a book, why not set the book on an invented planet? Why do people drive flying cars in a city where unpredictable dragons rule the skies? I could go on.
Normally, I re-read books that I'm this confused about, and try to figure out why, but I just can't face slogging through all this again, not for a while.
a hot mess
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It was just alright....
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However, after about 6 hours of listening, the foundation of the story is finally set and the storyline begins to thicken and then unfold. By the middle of the listen I was hooked and wanted to listen til the end. The character development is what kept me interested the most. This listen was a little hard to get into (I almost quit listening and returned it) but I stuck with the story and was rewarded. If you don’t mind a story taking a little bit to get going then this book is a good listen for you.
It Gets Good about A Third In
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I loved everything about it.
Storyline is definitely interesting.
I listened thru this in a day & night.
The characters bad and good are easy to visualize.
I keep going back to listen again each year since purchased.
And I will still keep checking on Audible for this Author’s new content
“fingers crossed”
Wish Author would write more
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Came with high hopes, left feeling dumber.
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