A review by jrosenstein
Updraft by Fran Wilde

2.0

Updraft is really YA dystopia by another name. It has a lot of the hallmarks, a young heroine who turns out to have an unusual ability, a shadowy body that controls society, secrets that the plucky heroine must unearth. There's even hints of a possible love triangle. I just didn't find the story very compelling and while the world is unusual and creative, none of the physics make sense. This seems to be the start of a series so maybe things will be explained in later books, but I just didn't understand how it could be possible for people to fly around on silk wings. And there are invisible sky monsters, but no explanation of why they're invisible. Didn't move me.