Girls at the Edge of the World

Locations
Call Number: Teen Book / Fiction / Dystopian / Robson, Laura Brooke, Teen Fiction / Robson, Laura
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Malletts Teen Books 4-week checkout	Teen Book / Fiction / Dystopian / Robson, Laura Brooke	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Teen Books 4-week checkout	Teen Book / Fiction / Dystopian / Robson, Laura Brooke	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown Teen, 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Teen Fiction / Robson, Laura	4-week checkout	Due 05-19-2024

In a world bound for an epic flood, only a chosen few are guaranteed safe passage into the new world once the waters recede. The Kostrovian royal court will be saved, along with their guards. The fate of the court's Royal Flyers, a lauded fleet of aerial silk performers, is less certain. Principal Flyer Natasha Koskinen will do anything to save the only family she's ever known. Her newest recruit, Ella Neves, is driven less by her desire to survive the floods than her thirst for revenge. With the end of the world looming, and dark secrets about the Kostrovian court coming to light, Ella and Natasha can either give in to despair-- or find a new reason to live. -- adapted from jacket

REVIEWS & SUMMARIES

School Library Journal Review
Summary / Annotation
Excerpt
Author Notes

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

A wonderful YA Fantasy submitted by laursanc6 on June 23, 2021, 8:35pm Girls at the Edge of the World is a YA Fantasy book with aerial silk performers, royalty, imminent floods, revenge, and sapphic romance. Speaking of that imminent flood, only a select few are given spots on the coveted escape ships when the epic flood hits. This leads us to Natasha who is the principle flyer for the royal flyers who will do anything to get themselves and most importantly her on one of those ships. Even if that means fighting to become queen by hopefully marrying King Nikolai. However, our other main character has other plans. The newest flyer has her own agenda, revenge against the king which could ruin everything Natasha is working for.

Wow I was not expecting to like this as much as I've been in a real reading slump and I have been mostly struggling to get through YA books. But this might have gotten me out of it! I think the story is super interesting and unique and I got through this book in a day because I had to know what happened next. I'm not usually a fan of dual POVs but I actually enjoyed both characters in this book although I do gravitate toward Natasha. I think the camaraderie the flyers had was so wholesome and one of the best parts of the book. I felt like this was mostly character driven as the plot really only "thickens" towards the end of the book which I didn't really mind that much but I did have some gripes that I will mention later. I think the writing was beautiful and I loved the descriptions that were written and I could put myself into the story. I was also at the edge of my seat several times which is always fun.

Now for some cons. First, although I love seeing sapphic romance represented and I liked the connection between the girls you really don't see much romance between the two as they are in the friend phase for the majority of the book. This isn't necessarily a bad thing but my problem was the insta love at the end. I felt like they both jumped into the deep end and the growth didn't quite make sense to me. I also have a problem with the end. What the heck? You're just going to leave it like that? There are so many unanswered questions and it left a bad taste in my mouth to not know what the heck happened.

I'm super excited to read more from this author in the future as I believe this is her debut novel and I think she's got great potential.

Good read submitted by cclark7 on July 14, 2021, 12:42pm I found that the whole apocalypse and the floods were really interesting and well explained. I also like how to give more perspective there were two narrators. I loved the entire story and how people in power can do anything they want. I love how the characters all had different personalities and that helped drive the story. My one main con was that the two characters that were supposed to be a couple were really just friends until close to the end of the story; the background development of their relationship was missing.

Otherwise, this story was great and I couldn't put it down.