Not a big issue if you're not familiar with the San Francisco Bay Area, but if you are, you might be wondering where "Noah Valley" and the "Dumberton Bridge" are.Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky is an engaging novel following the lives of two very different characters as they try to deal with the issues of growing up and trying to save the world that they live in. I wanted to like it so badly, too! The narrator also clearly failed to do her homework with regard to local landmark names, though they're easy enough to find examples of on YouTube.
Cringiness aside, the magic had no clear rules or limits that would seem to prevent a deus ex machina at any point (this isn’t a spoiler), the author seemed to have no idea what her male protagonist actually did at work, and there were more things but I’m tired of thinking about this stupid book, so that’s all you get. Okay, if you are going to have a “bird parliament” in your book, at least make it realistic enough that your adult reader can suspend disbelief and doesn’t feel vicarious embarrassment for you, another adult, who has come up with something that sounds like it was cribbed from a fourth-grader’s creative writing session. Little do they realize that something bigger than either of them, something begun years ago in their youth, is determined to bring them together - to either save the world or plunge it into a new dark ages.Ī deeply magical, darkly funny examination of life, love, and the apocalypse. Patricia is a graduate of Eltisley Maze, the hidden academy for the world's magically gifted, and works with a small band of other magicians to secretly repair the world's ever-growing ailments. Laurence is an engineering genius who's working with a group that aims to avert catastrophic breakdown through technological intervention into the changing global climate.
But now they're both adults, living in the hipster mecca San Francisco, and the planet is falling apart around them. After all, the development of magical powers and the invention of a two-second time machine could hardly fail to alarm one's peers and families. From the editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning novel about the end of the world - and the beginning of our future.Ĭhildhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect to see each other again after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during high school.
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