Childhood friends Patricia Delfine, a witch, and Laurence Armstead, a mad scientist, parted ways under mysterious circumstances during middle school. But as adults they both wind up in near-future San Francisco, where Laurence is an engineering genius and Patricia works with a small band of other magicians to secretly repair the world's ever-growing ailments. But something is determined to bring them back together-to either save the world, or end it.
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[WHEN PATRICIA WAS six years old, she found a wounded bird] ****(Titan Books, 26 January 2015, ebook, 314 pages, bought from Amazon, Popsugar 2018 Reading Challenge, a book with an animal in the title)
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This is my first time reading the author. I adored All the Birds in The Sky. The book is not what I was expecting at all. It's sort of dystopian fiction. It's sort of fantasy. It's sort of horror. It's sort of YA. It's a bit adult. It's many things and I loved every word of it. Patricia and Laurence are amazing characters, both a bit screwed up, both good, both a little bad and sort of perfect. The book gets very dark towards the end and I never really saw this coming. There are hints I just expected things to be a little less horrifying. I enjoyed the first half of the novel the most when Patricia and Laurence are at school. Patricia is bullied because she's seen as a monster or freak (which she sometimes is). Laurence sort of bonds with her but starts to see her as the freak everyone else does. All the Birds in The Sky is a corker!
