![]() ![]() ![]() Getting your wingmark is an essential rite of passage and even the laws are tied to flight. The highest tiers are reserved for the most important people. The society is based entirely around flight and your status in the hierarchy is determined by the height of your living quarters in the towers. Updraft is set in a world where people live high above the clouds in a city consisting of towers of living bone growing ever upwards. The world-building is utterly fascinating. If it wasn’t for the utterly fascinating setting I might have given up on the novel at around the midpoint and that would have been one of the biggest mistakes I could have made. ![]() So basically nothing really new to see here then, right? An oppressive regime that needs to be overthrown. 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.įran Wilde’s debut novel, Updraft, started out as yet another dystopian YA-novel filled with all the usual familiar tropes that normally entails. 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.Īs she grows in knowledge and power, she starts to uncover the depths of Spire secrets. When Kirit inadvertently breaks Tower Law, the city's secretive governing body, the Singers, demand that she become one of them instead. ![]()
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