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A winged society faces the threat of ultimate extinction in the thrilling finale to Fran Wilde's Bone Universe fantasy series
Kirkus Reviews' 27 Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Books to Read in September
Unbound Worlds' Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books of September 2017
"One of the most fun, imaginative fantasy novels...I'm already anxiously awaiting her next book." --Book Riot on Updraft
"That rare bird, the follow-up to a highly praised first novel that doesn't just equal its predecessor's accomplishments, but exceeds them." -- Locus on Cloudbound
A City of living bone towers crumbles to the ground and danger abounds. Kirit Densira has lost everything she loved the most--her mother, her home, and the skies above. Nat Brokenwings--once Kirit's brother long before the rebellion tore them apart--is still trying to save his family in the face of catastrophe. They will need to band together once more to ensure not just their own survival, but that of their entire community.
Bone Universe
1) Updraft
2) Cloudbound
3) Horizon
Author Notes
Fran Wilde was born in 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a BA in English with Honors, Warren Wilson College with a MFA in poetry, and the University of Baltimore with a Masters in Information Architecture and Interior Design.
Her previous jobs included a sailing instructor, Jewel's assistant, teacher, professor, and web and game developer. She writes for the blog GeekMom and runs the blog and podcast for Cooking the Books.
She writes short stories and novels. Some of her short stories include Bent the Wing, Dark the Cloud, published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Ghost Tide Chantey on Tor.com, You are Two Point Three Meters from Your Destination, published in Uncanny, and How to Walk through Historic Graveyards in the Digital Age, published in Asimov's Science Fiction. Her novel Updraft (2015) won the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy (2016). Her other novel is Cloudbound (2016).
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Spanning the ground and sky in a city of spires where people sail between their towers grown from living bone on wings of silk, the conclusion to Wilde's fantastical trilogy (after Cloudbound) takes on violent political divisions, ecological desolation, and the imminent death of the only world the characters have ever known. Unaware of the extent of the danger threatening the bone spires, political leader Macal is trying to breathe life into his desperate community. Below, a young woman named Kirit and her companions have survived a fall from the sky only to discover that their city's progenitor, an unimaginably giant creature, is being crushed and starved by the weight of the towers. When disaster hastens the city's demise, some of the fallen begin to climb, hoping to save those who still live above, but the solution they devise for evacuation seems needlessly complicated; there's no plausible reason that most of the citizens can't simply glide down on their own wings. Despite this flaw, fans of the series will be satisfied by its conclusion. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Library Journal Review
At the end of Cloudbound, only a few people know the true nature of the city of bone towers. Two of them, childhood friends Kirit and Nat, were thrown from the towers as punishment, falling through the clouds that are the boundaries of the known world to those in the towers. On the ground, they discover that their city is dying. Their new world is baffling and dangerous, but those still on the towers need to be warned that the city will fall, and soon. As Nat fights his way back up to the towers with the young scavenger Ciel, he will have to contend with the political upheaval above. Meanwhile, Kirit leads the search for a new home for the people of the bone towers. VERDICT The conclusion of Wilde's "Bone Universe" trilogy builds on the powerful world she created in Updraft, and while the pacing dips in places as the focus shifts between the tower and the ground, it is a satisfying end to an inventive series.-MM © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.