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Title: The Sky Is Yours
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Chandler Klang Smith
Narrator: Kirsten Potter
Format: Unabridged
Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-23-18
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
A sprawling, genre-defying epic set in a dystopian metropolis plagued by dragons, this debut about what it's like to be young in a very old world is pure storytelling pleasure
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.
The Sky Is Yours is incredibly cinematic, bawdy, rollicking, hilarious, and utterly unforgettable, a debut that listeners who loved Cloud Atlas, Super Sad True Love Story, and Blade Runner will adore.
Critic Reviews:
"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)
Members Reviews:
Filled with Lust, Passion, Sacrifice, Love and Death
Fire breathing dragons, spoiled children of an immensely wealthy upper class, a psychopathic
killer with magical drugs and a feral girl child meet in a dystopian future.
We want our fictions to be plausible, to flow with a sense of reasonable cause and effect. We
want believe that these interesting characters could act as they did, and at the same time we
want to be surprised and amazed at the rich invention of the plot. The Sky is Yours is a fantasy,
a genre that excels in the invention part but often struggles with a plausible flow of action.
The scene is Empire Island is the city, loosely based on Manhattan. It has been ravaged by two
fire breathing dragons. Duncan is heir to the Ripple fortune, a massive accumulation of wealth
that permits the family to live on Empire Island essentially insulated from the grim realities of
poverty, lawlessness and dragon fire. Duncan is a narcissist, not smart and terribly spoiled.
Swanny Dahlberg is his betrothed, and likewise from great wealth; her lands are more or less
the Westchester or Connecticut suburbs. She has been raised to become a grande dame.
Swanny is fairly smart, but incredibly naive.
