Storm Glass
Ratings14
Average rating3.7
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Ratings14
Average rating3.7
Two young girls must overcome their origins to change their fates. The fate of the world is in their hands, and in the magic of the Mysteries. Neither is trained. Neither belongs. But both will be needed for the coming storm.
Theirs is a world of opposites. The privileged live in sky manors held aloft by a secretive magic known only as the Mysteries. Below, the earthbound poor are forced into factory work to maintain the engine of commerce. Only the wealthy can afford to learn the Mysteries, and they use their knowledge to further lock their hold on society.
Cettie Pratt is a waif doomed to the world below, until an admiral attempts to adopt her. But in her new home in the clouds, not everyone treats her as one of the family.
Sera Fitzempress is a princess born into power. She yearns to meet the orphan girl she has heard so much about, but her father deems the girl unworthy of his daughter’s curiosity.
Neither girl feels that she belongs. Each seeks to break free of imposed rules. Now, as Cettie dreams of living above and as Sera is drawn to the world below, they will follow the paths of their own choosing.
But both girls will be needed for the coming storm that threatens to overturn both their worlds.
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Like the world that the author created and his characters, but this book really didn't do much for me. It felt like a long build-up with no resolution other than ‘check out Book 2'.
I probably shouldn't have read this at the same time as another YA book, because I tend to get burned out on young lead character quickly.
Set in a world with a totally different class system, but which has a Victorian feel to it. This feels like a dystopian mix of steampunk Golden Compass and maybe a little Handmaid's Tale. The young female protagonist is enjoyable without getting too Mary-Jane-esque powerful. The world-building is fascinating, but raises a lot of questions about “how this all works” as there are some magical elements to it.
My sense is that this book intentionally sets the scene, raising those questions to be worked out later. It's mostly fast-paced with a couple of areas where it gets bogged down a tiny bit. In this one you get to know the protagonists Cettie and Sera and their separate worlds which do eventually come together to no reader's surprise.
